Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has opened up on what took him so long to complete his law course at Cavendish University.
The NUP President was one of the 650 graduands awarded with diplomas and postgraduate degrees in different fields.
The Bachelor of Laws degree typically lasts four years, but the opposition leader has been on since 2016.
Speaking to the press after his graduation, Bobi Wine said several factors combined to prolong his study.
He said, he had to change universities from the International University of East Africa, to Cavendish, adding that this was on the advice of his then-friend and now NUP Secretary General, David Rubongoya, who tipped him off that IUEA was not accredited for the law course.
The opposition leader added that he then followed the tumultuous election season as he joined the parliamentary race in 2017 and later the presidential race in 2020.
This season, Bobi Wine said was full of challenges that would not allow him to focus on his studies and he was constantly arrested and locked up by the government
He said: “I started this course in 2016 before I even joined politics. This is a four-year course but it took me nearly 8 years. It is almost like I studied two courses.
“They arrested me, I came back and I got locked up again. Then we had elections and later on COVID-19,”
“But we don’t look at the challenges alone but also the outcomes,” added the opposition leader.
Days ago, the Cavendish University Vice Chancellor, Dr Olive Sabiiti, confirmed that Bobi Wine fulfilled all the academic requirements for the degree.
“It is true, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu is graduating…I taught him myself when I was the dean of the Faculty of Law.
“He came and attended classes and his friends always took pride in sitting with him because he is also a musician that people love, besides being a political leader,” she said
Meanwhile, Bobi Wine encouraged Ugandans to learn from his milestones and embrace education even at an older age.
“This should be a lesson to all Ugandans to know that even when you are old you can go back to school,” he said
