UGANDA: Bobi Wine implores Ugandans to rise up on "Situka"

“When the going gets touch, the tough must get going especially when leaders become misleaders and mentors become tormentors, when freedom of expression becomes a target of suppression, opposition becomes our position”. Those are the social consciousness lyrics on Bobi Wine’s new song Situka. It translates as Luganda for “rise up”. The song comes on the heels of his civic education song Ddembe which advocated for a peaceful election seson this year. Uganda went to the polls to elect a president on February 18th, 2016. But the post-election scenario has seen leading opposition candidate Kiiza Besigye of the FDC (Forum for Democratic Change) under house arrest since the elections results were announced by the Electoral Commission on Saturday February 20th. It is against this political backdrop that Bobi Wine’s lyrical two-cents act as a metaphorical clarion call for the citizens to affirm their existence as Ugandans. “When the world throws you down, rise up, change is in your hands,” he implores. Download the song soon on www.mdundo.com