After Namboole stadium management cancelled Bobi Wine’s Kyarenga concert for the second time, a section of Bobi Wine launched a campaign urging Uganda Cranes to boycott Uganda Cranes crucial Cape Verde encounter in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
With the hashtag #boycottugandacranes gaining momentum online, singer cum legislator Hon Robert Kyagulanyi has called on his upporters to support the Cranes.
“I have seen some friends act out of anger as a result of the Kyarenga concert cancellation by the Namboole management. Friends, I dont agree with the trending hashtag #boycottugandacranes. Uganda Cranes is our national team in which we should always take pride and support with all our abilities,” part of his statement reads.
According to Bobi Wine, boycotting Cranes games will only frustrate the national team. He explained the Cranes have no hand in the cancellation of his concert.
“These young men, just like most of us work hard to raise our flag high using their talent even when they are insufficiently facilitated. If musical talent is being suffocated, let’s not take all the other talent down the drain. Our national team is the mirror of the best and worst in us as a nation so all they need is Love and understanding, not condemnation. We are all Uganda Cranes and Uganda Cranes is us.”
Uganda Cranes are a point away from the second successive Afcon appearance due next year.