City lawyer Male Mabirizi has begun a process to block the graduation of National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine from Cavendish University Uganda where the singer and politician is supposed to bag a Bachelor of Laws.
Mabirizi claims that Bobi Wine skipped classes and reportedly deployed mercenaries to write his exams.Riding on Paragraphs XXVI(i-ii) and XXIX(f) of Uganda Constitution National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy which states that “all lawful measures shall be taken to expose, combat and eradicate corruption and abuse or misuse of power by those holding political and other public offices”.
He also cited Articles 17(1)(i) that makes promotion of democracy and the rule of law the duty of every citizen, Mabirizi is demanding that the vice chancellor of Cavendish University Uganda releases the marked answer sheets for which Bobi Wine was awarded marks ad and cleared to graduate.
He now wants Bobi Wine’s name removed from the graduation list so that no Bachelor of Laws Degree is conferred upon him until it has been established that he wrote the examination papers himself. The graduation is scheduled for August 08, 2024 at Speke Resort Convention Hall, Munyonyo.
“You are therefore required to avail me with all Answer sheets by the said KYAGULANYI SSENTAMU ROBERT for my onward transmission to handwriting experts to verify whether they were written by him and ascertain whether the answers therein were correct that required him to pass,” he wrote to the Cavendish University Uganda Vice Chancellor.
“In the meantime, you should HALT his [Bobi Wine’s] graduation to avoid the process of deprivation of the said degree if it is found that he obtained it ‘through fraud or dishonourable or scandalous conduct.’”
Mabirizi claims to have received complaints from students and former students of Cavendish University Uganda who claimed that Bobi Wine did not meet the requirements for clearance to graduate from the higher learning institution.
“Ever since you released a Graduation List for 2024 including KYAGULANYI SSENTAMU ROBERT among those to graduate for Law, I have been approached, in confidence, by many Ugandans, including your current and former students who informed me that he never qualified to graduate because he was never in classes but opted to use mercenaries to write papers,” the lawyer alleges.
Mabirizi also dwells on a recent speech that Bobi Wine gave on July 28, 2024 to accuse the NUP boss of having “failed to distinguish between a Magistrate and a Judge calling Nakawa Chief Magistrate H/W RITAH NEUMBE KIDASA a Judge” to advance his argument that Bobi Wine might have missed many classes and not even written his papers since “these [differentiating between a magistrate and a judge] are basic First Year Law studies aspects that KYAGULANYI doesn’t know putting his passing in question.”
As if that was not enough, Mabirizi further dwelt on previous allegations on the admission of Bobi Wine – whom labeled “a ruler” and “an academic fraud” – to Makerere University for a diploma in music, dance and drama.
“KYAGULANYI is a former Member Parliament and now a RULER of a political Party, NATIONAL UNITY PLATFORM which receives enormous funding from tax payers hence he must be subjected to high scrutiny,” wrote Mabirizi.
“He has an ACADEMIC FRAUD history at Makerere University where he was admitted to a Diploma in Music, Dance and Drama in 2000 on Mature Age Entry Government Sponsorship yet he was 20 years then, below the required 25 minimum and has not spent 5 years outside formal education, as required. This is a subject of High Court Criminal proceedings. He is also facing Charges over his fraudulent change of date of birth from 1980 to 1982.”
Mabirizi has previously raised concerns on the admission of Bobi Wine to Makerere University for a diploma in music, dance and drama, as well as his age.
