Bobi Wine: An Enemy of Youths Empowerment and the Entertainment Industry
Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is moving around rallying youths to his cause and deceiving them that the current government has forgotten about their empowerment and forgetting that himself is a success story of the same government, little does he know that he is killing the same industry that made him and empowers many youths.
The term empowerment refers to measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is also based on the idea that giving people skills, resources, authority, opportunity, motivation, as well holding them responsible and accountable for outcomes of their actions, will contribute to their competence and satisfaction.
Youth empowerment is a process where young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives, address their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes.
You can empower people by building their ability to do something about their needs, opinions, beliefs, and feelings.
Encouraging them on how to work to create wealth. How to organize themselves and make decisions.
The youth are a critical force in the development of any society. Programs that are aimed at empowering the youth to take charge of their destiny and become the forces of social change must be initiated. Youths need to be introduced to activities that help them gain self-esteem, believe in themselves, gain analytical and decision-making skills, and general life skills.
The youths should be raised to become socially responsible citizens. Besides providing youth with material and technical support, they must be encouraged to engage in socially aware projects and activities that will promote the good of the community. Through this work, they become aware of the needs of the people in communities around them. It is an opportunity to learn and share talents and gifts with those who are underprivileged, especially the elderly, single mothers, widows, child-headed families, and the sick. The resulting end is that young people who take an active role in community development have a heightened sense of duty and responsibility. This is critical to raising responsible children and building a strong nation.
Thus, using the youths as voting robots so that politicians achieve their selfish interests not only disempowers them but also deprives them of the most needed essential element of life, sustainable life skills, that they need like the wetland needs rains, and all must be one to help them look at opportunities around them and harness them and better their lives.
It’s for this reason that I am convinced that Bobi Wine is the biggest enemy of the youths he claims to fight for, his only message to them has been to go register get their ndagamuntu (National Identification) that will enable them vote him to state house so that he can create an enabling environment for them, he has even composed a song to hoodwink them that he is the only messiah taking them to Jerusalem if only they vote regime change and vote him into power, the only beneficiary of that ndagamuntu will be Bobi Wine himself at the end of the day, not the ghetto youth.
He is moving around accusing the regime in Kampala of being dictatorial, brutal and undemocratic, non-responsive to the citizen needs and neglecting youths in the country. Kyagulanyi who is an artist has made himself a name in a country that is led by the same leader he accuses, he has amassed a lot of wealth and now an MP paid by the money from the consolidated fund and he is part of the government he accuses still led by the same person he hates, all this he has achieved because the same government has provided an environment that enabled him to do so but he thinks youths from ghettos where he grew up from cannot use the same conducive environment to achieve their goals.
All artists in this country thanks to the good environment that widens opportunities for everyone in the country have made a lot of money, and the industry is booming and is one of the leading employing industry to the youths and other age groups who provide services to the entertainment industry that Bobi wine belong to, in fact throughout our recorded history no time had an entertaining industry boomed to this level and everyone who enters it makes money like it is today, we have had musicians before NRM came to power but you can’t trace any who became rich, but under this government almost everyone in the industry is making lots of money and becoming wealthy and this is the industry Bobi Wine is killing with his misguided selfish interest and definitely serving interests of his funders whose motive we all know.
By Bobi Wine taking the route he is taking he is blocking the same youths he claims to be concerned for from rising to stardom like he did use the availed conducive environment that many in his trade have used to amass wealth and is also killing the same industry that nurtured him and many others and he becomes the number ONE enemy of the entertainment industry and youth empowerment in the country, and those in the entertainment industry must wake up to safe their industry from political opportunism.
For God and my Country
