Summary:

• Bobi Wine, president of NUP party, criticizes UN Secretary-General Guterres for not addressing human rights abuses during the G77 + China Summit in Uganda. Wine expresses disappointment in Guterres’ silence on issues like human rights violations, election rigging, and the DRC crisis, while opposition leaders are under house arrest.

The president of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, commonly known as Bobi Wine, has criticized the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, for his silence on human rights abuses during the G77 + China Summit. In a statement shared on his official X account, Bobi Wine expressed disappointment that Guterres did not address the plight of millions of Ugandans and other Africans suffering under the rule of the host, the notorious dictator Gen. Museveni.

Bobi Wine conveyed his dissatisfaction, stating, “Mr. @UN Secretary General, @antonioguterres, It is disappointing that on your visit to Uganda, you have not spoken for the millions of Ugandans and other Africans in the region, oppressed by your host, a renowned brutal dictator, Gen. Museveni!”

He went on to criticize the UN Secretary-General’s focus during the visit, highlighting that addressing issues such as gross human rights violations, election rigging, military trials of political opponents, and the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would have been more meaningful. Bobi Wine lamented that opposition leaders, including himself, were either under house arrest or fleeing from the military while Guterres spoke at Munyonyo.

Drawing attention to Museveni’s closure of the UN Human Rights Office, Bobi Wine questioned the Secretary-General’s silence on such critical matters. He emphasized the importance of the UN standing for the values it claims to represent, warning that failure to do so would diminish its standing to a mere club of tyrants, prompting resistance from the suffering people worldwide.