Bobi Wine criticises Tundu Lissu's four-year prison sentence
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Nile Post
Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, criticises the four-year prison sentence handed to Tundu Lissu, Tanzania's opposition leader, after his acquittal on the treason charge. The Ugandan leader believes the sentence is intended to silence opponents, according to Nile Post.
Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), welcomed Tundu Lissu's acquittal on the treason charge handed down on 6 November by Tanzania's High Court in Dar es Salaam. However, the court sentenced the Chadema leader to four years in prison for incitement, after ruling that prosecutors had failed to prove that he had intended to overthrow or intimidate the government, Nile Post reports.
Bobi Wine said the acquittal on the treason charge represented a victory against the use of state power to intimidate opponents. However, he said the conviction for incitement was, in his view, another way of punishing Lissu for his political positions, particularly his campaign for electoral reforms under the slogan “No Reforms, No Election”. The NUP leader also called for solidarity between Ugandan and Tanzanian opposition movements and expressed his support for Chadema and Tanzanians opposed to the government, according to Nile Post.
Tundu Lissu, Chadema's president, was arrested on 9 April 2025 after a rally in Mbinga and had spent 577 days in detention at the time of the verdict. Tanzanian court acquits Tundu Lissu of treason
