Bebe Cool has sparked controversy on social media after mocking Bobi Wine’s injuries sustained during a recent altercation with the police. Last week, the singer and politician was hit by a teargas canister that injured his leg, prompting him to get hospitalized at Nsambya Hospital.
We saw a number of artists and political figures send out messages of sympathy on social media towards the NUP party leader and everyone who came back from visiting him at the hospital updated netizens about his current condition.
Being a fellow artist, fans, and followers of Bebe Cool pressured him to address the issue, and just as they thought he would be sympathetic as it affected Bobi Wine’s life, the Gagamel singer shocked everyone when he posted a video of him walking and claiming he was faking his injuries. The video had been edited with TikTok sounds of laughter, further fueling the mockery.
Nsambya hospital did not tell Bill which leg had been shot so the patient walked holding his full body weight on the injured leg… We should be ashamed’ read Bebe Cool’s post loosely translated from Luganda.
His followers were quick to react, with some condemning Bebe Cool’s insensitive behavior and others laughing along with him. Jose Chameleone on the other hand, when approached by journalists at an airport in Kenya declined to comment on the situation, saying it was Bobi Wine’s business and not his.
“That is Bobi Wine business. Everybody has his own business to do so that is Bobi Wine’s business. Now we are talking about Chameleone and I’m not trying to shut you down but that is his and the peoples’ business. I get shot every other day musically, now he is getting shot politically,” he said.
Bobi Wine who was recently discharged from the hospital addressed the incident in a press conference, stating that he is recovering and will undergo further tests for the doctors to determine the exact source of his pain.
I’m steady though not yet there. I’m better, the pain of the wound is still there but the most pain is deep inside the bone because even if it didn’t break, it was bruised and I got a crack, that is where the pain is coming from, he stated.
