It’s nearing a month since ‘OTT’ has become famous. The only way to watsapp or keep up with that Facebook friend of yours is by paying the ‘social media tax’ of 200UGX daily. One man who has triggered Ugandans into demanding that this outrageous TAX be changed, is artist turned politician Bobi Wine.

Early this year, Bobi Wine won the Member of Parliament for Kyandondo East elections, there was promise of a new Uganda and a vision for the young. In most of his campaign trails, he talked about how the youth should now be involved in leadership and take Uganda to the next level. Implying that the governing body was congested by backward thinking elders.

Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobi Wine is vocal against poor government policies and the monopoly H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni shares with his political party NRM over this beautiful country called Uganda, but his latest protest against social media TAX dubbed ‘this Tax must go’ has got me wondering if he and the opposition are learning from their past or simply performing a circus for the country that desperately wants change.

Uganda has witnessed pretense democracy, lack of accountability and there is a silent monster volcano boiling and fueled by years and years of soft and clever dictator ship, hence that a few civilians could be excited by the rowdy and futile protests. If there is anything to learn from history, is that these protests don’t bring about change or progress in any kind.

For over a decade, Kiiza Besigye has been the renegade leader for such protests and to date there is no victory credited to these destructive so called protests for the ‘people’. It’s 2018, and Bobi Wine has grabbed the torch. Sadly, I can’t help to wonder whether he has been advised that this is truly the best way to help Ugandans or even force the government, (a body he’s part of now) to make any changes.

I don’t doubt Bobi Wine’s intentions or motives, but I believe the change he seeks will not come from protests or scandalous tactics. Bobi Wine needs to be smarter in parliament than his predecessors, and probably then he might come out triumphant. Though who am I to tell the Ghetto president what to do!