While speaking to his supporters’ in Patongo and Kalongo Town Councils in Agago district on Wednesday, Gen Tumukunde says the electorate should not sit back and wait for change but participate in it.
According to Higenyi, the recent skirmishes between opposition candidates, their supporters and security agencies are uncalled for and they condemn it in the strongest terms.
In 2007, President Yoweri Museveni while campaigning during the by-election in Samia Bugwe North Constituency, pledged to construct power lines from Busitema sub-county headquarters through Kayoro, to Tiira town council in Sikuda sub-county up to, Buyunda in Buyanga sub-county then connects to main power lines along Jinja road in Dabani sub-county.
The police and military personnel have closed old Kira Road with Roadblocks at the Junction of Kyebando road and Kamwokya Market as police patrols and local defence units officers patrol the roads.
Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi however, says it is the Commission findings that at the time of the nomination, both Agness Khainza Shiuma and Esther Wetsese Lois didn’t present the copy of the gazette in, which the change of particulars was published in compliance with section 36 of the registration of persons Act 2015.
According to Acire, Okwonga collected T-shirts with his portrait from his supporters after bribing them and asked each of them to recruit five members from his camp; something he said is against the laws governing elections in the country.
The latest controversy is pitting the NUP campaigns coordination committees in greater Masaka sub-region led by Florence Namayanja and DP Vice President Fred Mukasa Mbidde, who is now putting Kyagulanyi’s campaign posters alongside his.
Nakalembe said that the hatred against police and the army is misplaced, unnecessary and uncalled for, pointing out that the uniformed men are acting on orders of their superiors who are militaristic.
According to the Electoral Commission - EC campaign program, Katumba was supposed to start campaigning in Tooro Sub-region by holding rallies in Kyenjojo and Kyegegwa districts.
