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Bully Kainerugaba is a threat to stability in Uganda and E Africa

Uganda opposition leader and National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine. [AFP]

In 1711, in England, there emerged a mob made up of youthful White men of high social status whose behavioural repertoire ranged from dusktime binge drinking to roughing up womenfolk and older, mostly male guards with impunity.

Styling themselves The Mohocks, the group's members derived their misguided sense of entitlement to social incivility, and criminal behaviour, from the equally misguided self-flattery that they could easily, and always, get away with the misexercise of wealth-given power. 

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