A few weeks ago, news was awash several media platforms and on social media that National Unity Platform (NUP) President and former Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aliás Bobi Wine’s son Solomon Kampala was suspended from school over possession of drugs.
The news was authenticated by a statement from St. Mary’s College, Kisubi headmaster Brother Deodati Aganyira affirming the allegation of possession of drugs and consequent suspension. There was no statement from Mr. Kyagulanyi in that story.
Using the Saturday parents Annual General Meeting (AGM), Bobi Wine rapped the headmaster Brother Aganyira saying he had for long been discriminatory towards his son Solomon Kampala.
Attracting large applause from fellow parents, Bobi Wine narrated how the head teacher onetime blocked his teenage son from contesting for a prefectorial position.
“We had agreed that everything remains between us without anything leaking out and that’s why I never said anything to the public even when I have plenty of access to the media as you all know. Since it’s the head teacher who recently spoke to the media, let me also make my case.” Bobi Wine stated.
“I was told by the head teacher that my son wasn’t an A but an average student who can’t be cleared to stand for a leadership position. I was hurt because we all train our children to become leaders. It was also said that popular students like him can’t be allowed to stand,” Bobi Wine said, almost tearfully amid huge applause from parents.
He stated that his child had always told him he was being targeted and singled out for stigmatization but he chose not to believe him at first, since “sometimes teenagers lie.”
He said even himself as a parent, he had equally been subjected to stigma by the school whose top management always prevailed on him to stay away from the school functions for fear that he will attract “unnecessary attention.”
The NUP Principal said he had always stuck to that gentleman’s agreement by staying away but was recently appalled when the same head teacher spoke to the media justifying the two weeks suspension of his son from the school on grounds he had been found in possession of drugs (weed).
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