Lwanyaga said that so many times, NUP Mobilisers are mobilizing each other rather than focusing on attracting people from other parties to join NUP to widen support.
According to him, as the leading opposition party, the NUP had a grand opportunity to champion logical amendments in the election laws ahead of the next election cycle, and the chance was lost in what he describes as petty squabbles.
The suspects who include Achilleo Kivumbi, Grace Wakabi alias Smart-wa Bobi and Gadafi Mugumya, where on Wednesday charged before Masaka Grade one Magistrate Abudallah Kayiira who remanded them to prison up to March 13th.
Since his suspension, Mpuuga has kept supporters guessing about his next move. However, inside reports suggest today he will align with a breakaway faction from the Democratic Party (DP), which has urged him to form a new political party and consider a presidential bid.
The Policemen and soldiers of UPDF commanded by Stephen Niragire instructed the team to stop and immediately vacate the grounds saying he has got instructions from Inspector General of Police to block the tour.
According to Kyagulanyi, the NRM has made and continues to make empty promises of delivering Teso from poverty through cattle compensation and other interventions, something he notes has taken decades to be realized.
The Nakaseke District NUP Chairman Fredrick Kakooza convened a meeting at Semuto town council where he rejected the elections and warned Luttamaguzi against destabilizing the leadership.
David Lewis Rubongoya, NUP's Secretary General explained that the move is an indication that NUP is not only in central Uganda but spread across the country.
Ronald Bogere, the chairman of the Landing site and spokesperson of the local fishermen's association, expressed his dismay at the lack of government support in this difficult situation.
Mpuuga admits that some opposition activists including those in the National Unity Platform-NUP party have made it a routine to exhibit undue conduct which is threatening the party’s plan of providing a better alternative to the current government which they are opposing.
Toolit had been battling diabetes and was admitted to the facility with a swollen leg that had developed blisters. But the condition deteriorated early today after suffering breathing complications a result of which he was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Museveni in a message read for him by Premier Robinah Nabbanja at the burial made fond statements about the late and the party he led but also expressed sadness that Ssemogerere had in 1996 forsaken his “national Unity government.”
The suspended members are; Alice Nannungi the Masaka City Female Councilor representing Nyendo-Mukungwe division and Ronald Kasekende one of the party youth mobilizers in the area.
Edward Zziwa, the Luwero sub-county LC V councillor, says that if the training was intended for improving service delivery, it would have been organized by the Ministry of Local Government but not Statehouse officials.
According to a section of NUP leaders, the new pressure group also known as Red Card Movement was recently unveiled by the Forum for Democratic Change- FDC former President Dr. Kiiza Besigye is recruiting some of its members for its activism activities.
NUP party leadership strongly rejected calls by some of its members to seek out government, to negotiate for the release of their supporters who were kidnapped during last year’s election cycle and remained in cells some in unknown locations.
Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, the Deputy Spokesperson of NUP used the platform at Kasanje Village in the Nyendo-Mukungwe division to castigate party leaders who obtained different leadership responsibilities in parliament and other levels. He said this was weakening their spirited political movement.
The NUP candidates defeated their closest rivals of the National Resistance Movement-NRM party, to fill the four Sub-county women councilors seats that had been not elected in the last general elections.
Anthony Mwaita Ambrose, the Nakasongola District Returning Officer declared Fred Lubinga the winner of Katuugo LCIII Chairperson by-elections after collecting 898 votes (75 per cent) against his rival Gaster Lule Musisi, the National Resistance Movement candidate who got only 302 votes (24 per cent).
