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Abavubuka mwenyigire mu bulimi - Kabaka awadde amagezi:

8th December, 2014

By Dickson Kulumba ne Paddy Bukenya

Kabaka ng’awuubira ku bantu be ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza ly’e Mawokota e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga ku mikolo gy’Abavubuka mu Buganda.

KABAKA Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II alagidde abavubuka okwongera okwegatta

beenyigire mu bulimi nga balima ebirime eby’ettunzi okusobola okwekulaakulanya.

Omutanda ng’ali ku mikolo gy’abavubuka mu Buganda ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza lya Mawokota mu disitulikiti y’e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga, yawadde abavubuka amagezi okukozesa ebifo ku masaza ne ku magombolola okukolerako emirimu egy’enjawulo egy’enkulaakulana

n’asiima abatandiseewo emirimu ne bayambako n’abalala okwebeezaawo.

Ente Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) gye yatonedde

Ssaabasajja ku Lwomukaaga.

Kabaka alagidde abavubuka okwekebeza Kabaka yakubirizza abavubuka okwekuuma:

“Omwaka guno tujjukiziddwa ensonga y’ebyobulamu. Abavubuka tusaanye okwekuuma nga tuli balamu, okwekebeza buli mwaka kubanga si kirungi okugenda mu ddwaaliro nga tumaze okugonda ate omuvubuka alina okulya obulungi.”

Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga yakunze abavubuka okukozesa emikisa Kabaka gy’abatee

reddewo; mu by’obulimi beekwate BUCADEF n’okuyingira Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO.

Omulamwa gwabadde; Omuvubuka omulamu ate nga mukozi ye nnamuziga w’enku

laakulana mu Buganda, era wano Minisita w’abavubuka e Mmengo, Henry Ssekabembe, we yategeerezza nga bammemba ba Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO bwe batuuse ku 1,500 nga kati balinawo n’obukadde 285.

Abamu ku Baamasaza ku mukolo gw’Abavubuka mu Buganda e Mawokota ku Lwomukaaga.

Omukolo gwetabyeko; ssentebe w’abavubuka mu Buganda, Richard Kabanda, Kayima David Ssekyeru, Katikkiro eyawummula Dan Mulika, sipiika wa Buganda Nelson Kawalya n’omumyuka we Ahmed Lwasa, Minisita Amelia Kyambadde, Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) ssaako baminisita b’e Mmengo, abakulu b’ebika n’Abaamasaza.

Abayimbi; Mathias Walukagga ne Fred Ssebbale be baasanyusiza abantu ba Kabaka.

The first bank in The Ganda Kingdom:

By Henry Lubega

Posted Sunday,1 st March, 2015

Before 1906, there was no banking institution in Uganda until November of the same year when the national Bank of India opened its first branch in Entebbe, and four years later it opened the first bank in Kampala, although it was later taken up to become Grindlys Bank.

The National Bank of India was followed by Standard Bank of South Africa Limited when on September 19, 1912, it opened its first branch in Kampala. And a few years later it opened another branch in Jinja.

Barclays

Barclays followed in 1927 when it opened two branches in Kampala and Jinja. In 1954 three more banks; Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and The Nedelandsche Handel-Maatschappij M.V (Netherlands Trading Society) opened in Uganda.

According to Saben’s commercial directory and handbook of Uganda, as early as 1949 the banking system had been established in Uganda but did not control much of the financial liquidity that was in circulation across the board in the country.

“Much of the money was controlled in the bazaars and other channels which were predominantly controlled by people of the Asian origin. These people played a key role in the buying of cotton.

However, areas where banks were non-existent, merchants in those areas played the part of the banks. This was through taking drafts in exchange for cash or physical items in exchange for hard cash,” Saben wrote.

By 1950, it was realised that to bring more Africans into the business there was need to provide them with credit. Unfortunately, the commercial banks at the time would not extend credit to Africans because of the nature of their securities.

Under Ordinance number 20 of 1950 the Uganda Credit and Saving Bank was created purposely to extend credit facilities to Africans with the aim of furthering agriculture, commercial building and co-operative society purposes.

On October 2, 1950, the bank was opened and by 1961 it had spread to places like Arua, Fort Portal, Jinja, Soroti, Gulu, Masaka and Mbale, taking only African deposits.

Building Society

Two years later, the first Building Society in Uganda was opened as a subsidiary of a Kenyan owned firm Savings and Loans Society Limited.

More financial institutions continued to open up in Uganda with Lombard Bank from Kenya, in partnership with Uganda Development Corporation, opening the Lombank Uganda Limited in 1958. It was this bank which first introduced the hire purchase system of shopping in Uganda.

It was not until 1966 that through an act of Parliament that Bank of Uganda was created. Prior to this, issues to do with money were handled by the East African currency board which had its head offices in Kenya.

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Money in dollar bills seized from a home of the Commissioner General of the Tanzania Revenue Authority is pictured down: Over 20 bags of it:

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The Kabaka of Buganda launches a book on Ssekabaka Muteesa II struggles:

Posted Friday, 27 May, 2016

By the Monitor, Uganda

Kabaka Mutebi (centre) with Mr Patrick Makumbi (right) and Dr Colin Sentongo (left) at the book launch at Bulange in Mengo, Kampala.

Kampala in the State Kingdom of Buganda:

Kabaka Ronald Mutebi on Wednesday, 25th May 2016, launched a book about the struggles of his late father and former Buganda king, Edward Muteesa II, touching on Uganda’s history before and after independence.

The book titled The Brave King, revisits the stories of Muteesa’s exiling, first between 1953 and 1955, and again from 1966 to 1969 when he died in London. The author, Mr Patrick Makumbi, drew from the documents preserved by his father, 99-year-old Thomas Makumbi, who was an official at Mengo, Buganda’s power capital.

“I was very happy to write the preface to this book,” Kabaka Mutebi said, adding: “It will help the readers understand what Kabaka Muteesa went through in those days.”

When Mutesa was exiled in 1953, the older Makumbi, the father of the author, led a team of six Buganda officials to negotiate with the British about the king’s return to Buganda, which was secured in 1955. The other members of the team were Mr Apollo Kironde, Mr Matayo Mugwanya, Mr Amos Sempa, Mr Eridadi Mulira and Mr Ernest Kalibbala.

Kabaka Mutebi, while officiating at the function, called on more people to document what they saw during those days, saying “it is a good thing” that some of those who witnessed or participated in the events are still alive. Muteesa himself wrote about the period in question in his autobiography, The Desecration of my Kingdom, and Kabaka Mutebi’s endorsement of Mr Makumbi’s new book will be seen as an extension of the kingdom’s bid to manage the narrative.

Mr Apollo Makubuya, Buganda’s third deputy Katikkiro, at the launch held at Bulange-Mengo said there have been attempts to misrepresent history by “those who do not like us”.

Accusations and counter accusations of betrayal between Buganda Kingdom and Obote are rooted in a rather happy start, when Buganda’s party Kabaka Yekka (KY) teamed up with Obote’s Uganda People’s Congress to defeat the Democratic Party and form government at independence in 1962.

But the two centres of power soon quarrelled violently and were involved in what many have regarded as a critical turning point in Uganda’s history. The army, on Obote’s orders, stormed Muteesa’s palace on May 24, 1966, killing multitudes and forcing the king-president into exile.

Mr Makubuya said his grandfather was among those killed during the attack, an occasion the kingdom commemorates yearly on May 24. He said in addition to explaining how Buganda and Muteesa suffered during that period, Mr Makumbi’s book will clarify a number of other issues, including how colonialism thwarted Buganda’s development efforts.

He said Buganda stiffly resisted colonialism and the demands of colonial governor Andrew Cohen in particular, to the extent of winning a court case in London against the exiling of Muteesa. In all its efforts, Mr Makubuya said, Buganda was consistently seeking autonomy, and that the kingdom can “never” lose sight of this objective.

Mr Makumbi, the author, said his father could not attend the launch due to old age.

The publication of the book was financed by Dr Colin Sentongo, who said at the launch that KY, which ceased to exist in the 1960s, is the only political party he has ever belonged to.

The fathers of Mr Makumbi and Dr Sentongo met with Muteesa as students at Kings College Budo, from where, Mr Sentongo said, the three men forged a life-long friendship. It is probably much for this reason that Kabaka Mutebi warmed up to Mr Sentongo and Mr Makumbi at the launch.

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Fiscal Budget y'Ensi Buganda ebiro bino:

Posted 7th July, 2014

By Dickson Kulumba

Omuwanika wa Buganda, Eve Nagawa Mukasa

Omukyala Eve asomye embalirira y’Obwakabaka bwa Buganda eya 2014/2015 nga ya buwumbi 7 (7,411,638,600/-) .

Embalirira eno eri wansi w’omulamwa 'Okwolesebwa n’Ebigendererwa' egendereddwamu okutumbula enkulaakulana okuli; okumaliriza Amasiro g’e Kasubi ne Wamala, Masengere, okulongoosa Ennyanja ya Kabaka, okussawo etterekero ly’ebyedda, okukulaakulanya ettaka ly’e Kigo ne Makindye 'State Lodge', okuzimba olubiri lw’omulangira Juma Katebe, okuzimba olubiri lwa Namasole, okuddaabiriza embuga z’Amasaza wamu n’okuzimba eddwaliro ly’abakyala.

Nagawa yagambye nti ensimbi zino zisuubirwa okuva mu Buganda Land Board, Amasomero, Minisitule ez’enjawulo, mu bupangisa, amakampuni g’Obwakabaka, ebitongole ebigaba obuyambi n’obuwumbi buna okuva mu Gavumenti eya wakati.

Ng’ayogera mu lukiiko luno, Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga yasabye abantu okutambulira ku kiragiro kya Kabaka eky’abantu okujjumbiro ebifo by’obulambuzi era n'ategeza nti pulojekiti zonna Obwakabaka ze butandiseeko ssi zaakukoma mu kkubo, zirina okumalirizibwa n’olwekyo enkola y’okunoonya Ettoffaali ekyagenda mu maaso kubanga Kabaka ayitibwa mufumbya Gganda n'antabalirira batyabi- ensimbi zikyetaagisa.

Olukiiko luno lwetabiddwamu abakiise bangi ddala ne baminisita ba Kabaka nga lwakubiriziddwa, Sipiika Nelson Kawalya eyagambye nti embalirira eno abakiise basaanye okugenda n’ekiwandiiko kino, bwe banakomawo mu lukiiko luno basobole okugiyisa.

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The Supreme court of Uganda, has accepted the withdrawal of Kyagulanyi's election petition:

5 March, 2021

Written by URN

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine

The Supreme court has okayed the withdrawal of the election petition filed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi seeking to overturn the reelection victory of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

The decision by a panel of nine Supreme court justices led by chief justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo follows a concession from all parties to have the matter withdrawn.

In their brief ruling read by lady justice Stella Arach Amoko, court noted that upon careful consideration of the application, the authorities attached to it and arguments from both parties and after reading the law, the leave to withdraw the petition has been granted.

In Uganda, Bobi Wine dares Museveni to organise a free and fair election in the year 2021:

By Derrick Wandera

14 September, 2020

Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine

"There are always low moments in every politician’s career, but it is regrettable that the man who presides over our country has no limits on how low he can descend."

Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has reacted to President Museveni's earlier missive in which he accused him and his Mityana Municipality counterpart Francis Zaake of leading a group to attack his convoy and NRM supporters in Arua in 2018.
Last week, President Museveni used his different social media platforms to address Ugandans especially the bazukulu(grandchildren) in response to an earlier rebuttal by Mr Zaake.
In the statement, Mr Museveni said the group led by Bobi Wine and Zaake also wanted to knock his convoy using a road-grader.
“The SFC soldiers in a disciplined way, delivered me to the helicopter first and went back looking for the ring-leaders – Bobi Wine, Zaake and others. Eventually, they found them in a hotel. These wonderful gentlemen tried to assault our soldiers with punches. The soldiers punched them back, until they subdued them. It is very impressive that the soldiers never used guns against Bobi Wine and Zaake in the hotel rooms where they were making a fool of themselves,” Mr Museveni wrote.

In the Arua fracas, Bobi Wine’s driver, Yasin Kawuma was shot dead under what Mr Museveni described as “mysterious circumstances.”
In a statement issued last night, however, Bobi Wine slammed the president for being, "heartless and detached from the society realities."
The singer-turned politician also dared President Museveni to face him in a free and fair 2021 election.

"First and foremost, the very fact that you can torture, mutilate and murder innocent citizens; your own countrymen, and then turn around to quote scriptures and purport to hold prayers reveals a hypocrisy of the highest level. Dictators have no shame! How do you reconcile these public stunts of prayer with the hundreds of victims murdered in Kasese on your orders; young political activists killed by your brutal regime; trillions of tax payers’ money stolen under your watch, voter bribery, etc etc? The solution does not lie in holding many prayer sessions," Bobi Wine statement reads in part.

“I have challenged you before and I challenge you again today to a free and fair election,” Bobi Wine added before he appealed for a levelled playing field:

General Museveni,
You either do not live in Uganda, or you are a pathetic liar!
The disease you are suffering from was precisely diagnosed by late Hon. Eriya Kategaya referring to you in his little book, “Impassioned for Freedom.” In that book, Kategaya writes as follows:
"I have observed that the longer one stays in power, the more one is insulated from reality. The trappings of state apparatus tend to make one live an unrealistic existence.”

Anyone who reads what you write these days can clearly see that you live in a bubble, completely isolated from where our country is, and what ordinary Ugandans go through on a daily basis. Well, this is expected. After 35 years in power, living lavishly at the expense of the tax payer and amassing lots and lots of ill-gotten wealth, you are drawn far away from the reality of the common person in Uganda. That is why you have the audacity to mock and insult them in your words and actions, year in year out.
On August 27th, you released a missive largely in response to Hon. Francis Zaake’s earlier letter. I had intended to respond to that statement which was both annoying and unfortunate. However, because of our busy schedule struggling to put an end to your corrupt regime, I did not find time or the need to respond then. Then on September 3rd you released another statement which was filled with more lies, self-praise, contradictions and provocations than the first one. These cannot go unchallenged!
Your lies and contradictions have been so many, however, I will respond to only seven of them today:

1. ON HOUSES OF WORSHIP AND PRAYERS
In your first statement, you begin by quoting some scriptures and speaking of how a few days ago you invited some religious leaders to state-house to pray against COVID19.
First and foremost, the very fact that you can torture, mutilate and murder innocent citizens; your own countrymen, and then turn around to quote scriptures and purport to hold prayers reveals a hypocrisy of the highest level. Dictators have no shame! How do you reconcile these public stunts of prayer with the hundreds of victims murdered in Kasese on your orders; young political activists killed by your brutal regime; trillions of tax payers’ money stolen under your watch, voter bribery, etc etc?
The solution does not lie in holding many prayer sessions.
What the Lord desires is justice, truth and righteousness. Forsake evil and do good! Then the Lord will hear from heaven, forgive our sin and heal our land. As Prophet Amos wrote in Amos 5:21-24, God says, “I hate and despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river and righteousness like a never failing stream.” Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God. This is the rule!

Related to this is your obvious disregard for God as exhibited in the way you have used COVID19 to keep houses of prayer locked, while you and your people violate the same rules you have put in place, ostensibly to prevent the spread of the virus.
Every Ugandan would know that the prayers you organize at State House, and give your guests envelopes at the end of the service are simply a publicity stunt. Your friend, President Mugabe did this with distinction. While he was murdering citizens and his country’s economy was on its knees, he regularly invited religious leaders to his palace and at the end of the service stuffed them with gifts. Likewise, Zaire’s Mobutu was very fond of religious festivities. But God, is always on the side of the oppressed, and He eventually shows up and shows off on their behalf!

Without digressing, my point is that if you had regard for God, places of worship would not be closed for prayers yet open for NRM political rallies and assemblies. Those are houses of God. Just a day ago, NRM held its primaries (which I will come back to later) and hundreds of people were gathered in large numbers under the watch of the police and the military. And somehow, you have conveniently refused to open places of worship under the pretext that they would spread COVID19! These double standards are for world cup, as we the young people say!
Of course many of us know that aside from your disregard for God, the reason why you are refusing to open the places of worship is because it will put you on the spot if they are opened, and opposition political activities are still blocked. You are conveniently refusing to open these places of worship in order to keep opposition leaders under lockdown. True to your character, we may even now see a stringent enforcement of “COVID19 regulations”, now that NRM has finished its primaries!

2. BOBI WINE WAS BEATEN PROPERLY IN ARUA
In your letter of 27th August, you once again stated with satisfaction how I was properly brutalized in Arua, Hon. Zaake tortured to near death, Yasin Kawuma murdered and many other Ugandans assaulted, raped and mutilated by some of your guards. Now it’s clear, those actions were all on your orders!
Yes, you may be a heartless, cold and brutal man at a personal level like all tyrants. But, at the very least, have some respect for the office which you currently occupy. Under our Constitution (which you have severally crushed and undermined), a President is the fountain of honor of our nation. What that means is that a President must conduct himself or herself in an honorable manner. I watched with shock as you commended your guards for torturing me properly. The expression on your face, and the satisfied laugh which followed clearly brought out what tragedy befell our country the day you captured power. The stories, told many times, of your cold brutality all of a sudden became alive. The people of Uganda who watched you, found reason to believe that you find satisfaction in the suffering of people. The symbolism was clear – the way you relish the physical pain and suffering of your opponents is the same way you enjoy seeing Ugandans groan in pain, as poverty, hunger and disease take the better of them.

Well, I will not dwell on this so much. Your guards were armed. They hit me with an iron bar and tortured me throughout the night until I became unconscious. Before then, they spoke to me with so much hate. They insulted and assaulted me for being me. They called me a dog, spat saliva on my face, tortured me some more, but by the grace of God, I am still alive. When they came to you, all you could say to them was, “Well done, my good and faithful servants.” Your own admission that you stood in the way of justice and prevented them from being punished, clearly shows who sent them and what mission they had come to accomplish. Are you court to dismiss charges against accused persons? Those individuals, who you have shielded for two years now, should have had their day in court and their fate determined. Not by you dismissing torture accusations as rubbish!
I still believe that your guards were sent to kill me that night. Yasin Kawuma took the bullets that were meant for me. You had your plan, but God had another plan! May the Lord who saved me from you that night continue protecting me and all Ugandans who are involved in this struggle for freedom and democracy! (Read 1 Samuel 24:15)

Away from that, your government went ahead to charge me with unlawful possession of firearms. Machine guns and bullets were displayed to the media and reported as having been found in my hotel room. I WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU TODAY TO TELL US WHERE THOSE GUNS HAD COME FROM AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM EVENTUALLY!
How can a head of state behave in this manner? Moreover, not a mere head of state, but an old man fit to be my father! The people of Uganda have tolerated you for over three decades. Do not insult their intelligence.

3. WE KILL OUR SUPPORTERS IN ORDER TO BLAME GOVERNMENT
There are always low moments in every politician’s career, but it is regrettable that the man who presides over our country has no limits on how low he can descend. I wonder how you sleep soundly at night! I wonder how you can extra-judicially kill our people, and then turn up with a straight face blaming their death on the glorious forces of change.
Yes, you have no respect for us who are living, but at the very least, have some respect for our brothers and sisters, young men and women, who have been murdered by your regime.
Asuman Walyendo, Yasin Kawuma, Vincent Sserungaya, Kalende Yusuf, Ssalongo Lukoma Stephen, Hannington Ssewankambo, Hakim Ssekamwa, Ritah Nabukenya, Dan Kyeyune, Charles Mutyabule, and countless others.
Have some respect for these sisters and brothers whose lives were cut short under your watch and command.

For Ritah Nabukenya, after being ran over by a police truck, your government shamelessly claimed that the cameras had become faulty all of a sudden! For Dan Kyeyune, we obtained a video footage. Actually we obtained it from some patriotic police officers (I know that you will try to find out who these officers are and punish them, but you will not succeed). In the footage, an LDU personnel called Faizal Kakooza was captured vividly shooting at our brother Kyeyune who died instantly. To date, your government has not done anything; not even conducting an investigation! For Hannington Ssewankambo (aka Sweet Pepsi), the beatings that damaged his organs and eventually led to his death were administered by soldiers who were captured on camera. For Hakim Ssekamwa, I watched with my own eyes as Police truck Reg. No. UP 2525 deliberately ran over him.

Now General Museveni is telling the nation that we have killed all these people in order to put the blame on his regime of blood and national shame! We are told by scripture that God does not sleep nor slumber. The blood of these innocent brothers and sisters cries from the ground. One day, they will get justice.
When your friend Omar el-Bashir was butchering the people of Darfur, (the very same way you butchered our people in Northern Uganda, Kasese, etc), he thought of himself as all powerful and invincible. Today, he must be wondering what went wrong. The arm of justice may take so long, but it eventually catches up with those who commit atrocities and think of themselves as too wise and highly exalted.

To draw the parallels for your ease of reference, only in April 2015, Omar el-Bashir had organized a sham election, in which his own version of Byabakama awarded him a sweeping 94.05% of the vote. Today, he is in a cold cage, perhaps wishing he had read the signs. I don’t want to remind you of your other friends Gaddafi, Mubarak, Mugabe, Campoare and the rest. Rest assured, you will end up on the dustbin of history, like all those who came before you. The tragedy is that no dictator ever learns from the fate of the other!

4. THE YOUTH AND OTHER SIGs ELECTIONS
You go on to boast of how your party won the youth elections. You go into fictitious percentages fixed for your pleasure and propaganda. One of the greatest contradictions in our country is to have a General who is also a coward. Ordinarily, these two words should never be used in reference to the same person. However, you are now a prisoner yourself, unable to clearly see how much you have fallen.
First and foremost, despite launching our Party (NUP) a few weeks earlier, we won in the majority of places where we fielded candidates in the youth elections. In most areas, RDCs, DISOs and the like were filling forms, apparently depicting only NRM candidates – in one case, they even included a person who is long dead! In Kalangala and other areas, our candidates were pursued and intimidated the whole night. Where our candidates won in many areas including some positions in Kampala and Wakiso, by morning, results had been changed to reflect victory for NRM! The evidence in some of these cases has been filed with the Electoral Commission!

And this is the cowardice, that I am talking about! You have blocked all those opposed to you from reaching out to the people. In a very primitive and backward manner, you have declared yourself a sole actor in Uganda’s politics.
When I tried to carry out consultations as guaranteed by our laws, you blocked me and ensured I did not go to any district outside Kampala. I have been hounded out of radio stations, including the other day in Mbale. In Mbarara, radio stations have been ordered not to host Bobi Wine, or their licenses will be revoked. Burials have ended unceremoniously because of my appearance, including most recently in my constituency when senior Muslim religious leaders were teargased when I stood to speak at a funeral. A few months ago in Kassanda, mzee Joseph Nsamba, father to Hon. Patrick Nsamba was teargased and prevented from cutting his birthday cake, as soon as Kyagulanyi arrived at the event and took to the microphone! You recently boasted of how you personally blocked my music shows because I was speaking bad about your government! You resort to force because you know that what we say is the truth!
Every day, People Power/NUP youth are arrested for merely putting on our attire.

When I step out of my house these days, there are several police or military officers riding motorcycles following me around. People are harassed for just waving at me and our other comrades. Shamelessly, with so many hotspots for crime having no cameras, your regime has brought CCTV cameras up to my gate and you are surveilling everything that happens in my home 24/7!
Then, using our own money- the tax payers’ money, you have taken advantage of the poverty which you have caused to our people, and started buying off some of our weak-willed supporters one by one! Recently, I saw you condemning voter bribery and I said Oh what a shameless man?" How can you talk about bribery and corruption? The chief priest of corruption condemning corruption?

Back to my point on elections, how then, do you feel celebrating any victory in an election in such circumstances? Are you really serious? Generals fight head on with their opponents. It is a sign of great cowardice to tie someone’s arms and legs on a tree, and start celebrating that you have won them in a boxing game! It is cowards who would celebrate such victories. I HAVE CHALLENGED YOU BEFORE AND I CHALLENGE YOU AGAIN TODAY TO A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION. Then we shall see who is who!
Recently you said that Uganda etandise kukuwomela, but if you allow our nation to have a free and fair election, then Uganda egenda kkukaayilira nga kaziire. Let us have a levelled playing field ndyoke nkulage waaka.
How can a General of the National Resistance Army, as you prefer to be called, not be ashamed to come out thumping his chest that he has won a fight with a man handcuffed and chained on both hands and legs?

This very Friday, have you watched how NRM supporters gathered in hundreds, unhindered and guarded by the police? In every district of Uganda, no one whatsoever observed the COVID SOPs which you love to sing about. Absolutely no one. People were gathered in droves voting, waiting at the tally centers or celebrating victories of their candidates. While this was happening, Hon. Lutamaguzi Ssemakula had spent days in prison for speaking to a few people in Semuto Town Council!
In a space of three weeks, at least seventeen meetings organized by the leaders iof the National Unity Platform in different parts of the country have been broken up and leaders detained for apparently not observing the SOPs! On 15th August in Masaka, a meeting of a few of our leaders was broken up, while in the neighborhood, your brother Sodo was holding a rally of thousands of people under the guard of the military! I do not want to believe that in your mind, COVID19 only affects People Power supporters and does not apply to NRM supporters.
Stop the double standards. Stop the cowardice. Let us compete as men, and see what the young man with the red cap will do to the old man with a hat!
5. TRIBALISM

General Museveni, when I read your comments on tribalism in Uganda, it was very difficult to believe that they were being written by a person who actually lives in this country. This is the absolute evidence that you live in a bubble, completely isolated from the country called Uganda. You are either oblivious to what happens in this country, or you are a pathological liar!

For starters, let me inform you that as a generation we rejected tribalism and nepotism a long time ago. We have transcended above chauvinism based on tribe / ethnicity, race, religion or gender. We tower above these classifications. We would rather see ourselves as Ugandans and as Africans. Personally, my wife is from Western Uganda, some of my closest associates from the North and others from the East. I never ask or even think of anyone’s tribe before I deal with them. This is true for most Ugandans, especially the young generation, my generation.

But the question of tribalism in our beautiful country begins and ends with you, General Museveni. If Idi Amin, Obote and Lule practiced tribalism as you often say, then you Mr. Museveni have lived tribalism! Just like corruption in our country, if tribalism is a child, you are its midwife. If tribalism is a plant, you are the seed. If nepotism and sectarianism are twin brothers, you are their father. In fact, the true mustard seeds you have sowed in Uganda are corruption, nepotism and sectarianism. You have bred systematic sectarianism and nepotism for the past three decades. Every Ugandan can see it wherever they are – including yourself.

Gen. Museveni, do you know that there are public offices in this country, where the official language spoken is a local dialect from one section of the population? Make a random trip to URA, the passport office at the internal affairs ministry, NIRA, UNRA or even the UPDF headquarters. Have you cared to look at who gets NFA land? Have you cared to look at the composition of the police force in terms of the most sensitive positions? Have you looked at which companies are most likely to win government contracts (procurement, works, etc) and who is behind them? I challenge you to release a list of the beneficiaries of the State House Scholarship over the years and see if up to 95% of them are not from the same region or even from the same clan! Is it because they are exceptionally gifted, like you recently alluded?

At some point, 27 out of 34 key government agencies were headed by people from the same region. At some point, over 70 or even 80% of the District Police Commanders were from the same region. Even where the commander is from another region, you will find another individual from your region giving orders and commands to their purported superiors! Go to any police station here in Kampala, Wakiso, Busoga, name it – and see what language is spoken at those stations!

Behind the scenes, you stoke the flame of tribalism as a tactic to divide and rule us, but in public you pretend to condemn it. It is not by coincidence that most of the private citizens that your leadership is using to attack me from all angles ever since I declared my intention to contest against you are people from the same ethnic group as me. This is a deliberate strategy by you to depict people from my region as untrustworthy and treacherous so that you set us against each other!

You implore us to leave 'your' army out of the tribal/political talk but we never saw you condemning Minister Anite Evelyn when she boasted that your political party has the support of the army. You never condemned nor investigated Mr. Bob Kagarura, Mr. Twesigye Hamdan, Mr. Mwine Alex and other high ranking officers whom my colleague Hon. Zaake Francis accused of torturing him while throwing tribal profanities against him on account of being a Muganda!

Recently, some Ugandan after reading your writings posted that, “When Museveni sees us with ears, he thinks we are goats ”. I think this is what you take us for. You somehow think that Ugandans are so stupid, that they cannot see the obvious!

You have labored so much to point out which positions are occupied by individuals from the different parts of the country. Gen. Museveni, of what influence are those positions? Will you tell us how Mr. Kiwanuka Sekandi is the Vice President? Does he even know what happens in this country? By the time Prof. Gilbert Bukenya was dropped, he publicly complained of how he was a Vice President who merely had a convoy, and moved in a car with a flag, but did not know where key decisions were being taken from! What is the purpose of having Mr. Martin Okoth Ochola as the IGP, when everyone in this country knows who effectively the IGP is? Major John Kazoora is on record telling the nation how you called the Ankole Parliamentary caucus in the early years of your leadership. In that meeting, Kazoora recalls, you spoke how people like Specioza Kazibwe, Jeje Odong and others did not wield any power, but were there simply to appease their tribesmen and women so that they give you votes!

General Museveni, I know you are very detached from reality, so I will tell you one of the jokes Ugandans make. During the festive season, the V8 vehicles are normally seen on Masaka Road, heading towards parts of Western Uganda. On the road that goes to Busoga and Gulu, you’ll normally find packed taxis and buses. That is to say that Ugandans are actually not as stupid as you think. They see these things and know them.

Make no mistake! We have nothing against people from any region of this country. As I have already said, my children have shared blood- they are both Baganda and Banyankole. But every day, I meet Banyankole who are disgusted by tribal tendencies perpetrated by your regime. Every day, I meet Ugandans who believe in fairness and equality. I therefore cannot blame the beneficiaries of a flawed system that you have created. Tribalism in Uganda is deep rooted, but when you are gone, the people of Uganda will start afresh and build a country that is fair and just for all citizens regardless of what their first name is.

6. LEAVE THE ARMY OUT OF TRIBALISM

General Museveni, first and foremost you should stop treating our gallant men and women of the UPDF as your personal army. These are our brothers and sisters. They are our fathers and mothers. They are from our generation. We live with them and understand their frustrations better than you do. They complain to us about so much unfairness in promotions and how deployments are made. They complain to us about instances where people of higher ranks are ordered around by their juniors, simply because their juniors have a connection with someone in the system. They speak to us and we listen to them. Because at the end of the day, when they put off their uniform, they are human beings and are ordinary Ugandans oppressed by your system, even harder than the ordinary citizens.

You go ahead to mock our gallant soldiers and police officers. You pretend to care about them, yet you know so well that you have deliberately kept the rank and file of our soldiers and police officers poor, because you believe that is the best way to control them and keep them in check. Our soldiers and police officers live in ragtag shelters, even here in Kampala. What they are paid is insufficient to afford them a decent living. They can barely take their children to school. Our police officers are always stressed because of debts. By the time their salary comes, it is all going to pay debts. No wonder, many of them resort to extortion and bribery. Many of them are brutal, as a result of stress and desperation.

We have worked out a formula which will be laid out in our manifesto. Even with the revenue reflected in our national budget of 2020, our promise to our men and women in uniform is that we shall increase their salaries and benefits by far. The money you take in classified expenditure and spend on elections and patronage will be used to improve the welfare of our servicemen and women. We shall ensure that in three months of our takeover of government, the lowest ranking soldier earns at least 1 million shillings a month! The same will apply to teachers and health workers whose salaries and benefits we intend to increase by three times!

On the question of tribalism in the army, without a doubt, officers from your region dominate most of the top leadership positions of our security forces while majority of their rank and file who have no influence cut across the regions. If you look within your guard unit the SFC, it is even worse! In Arua, while they tortured me up to when I was in Makindye, I heard no other language spoken, except Runyankole. How, in these circumstances, can we leave ‘your’ army out of “this sectarian circus?”

7. HOBNOBBING WITH FOREIGNERS TO DISTABILISE UGANDA

In your writings, you repeatedly accuse us, of hobnobbing with foreigners to distabilise the country.

General Museveni, very unfortunately, you are living in the shadow of your former self. When you went to the bush, were you funded by foreigners to distabilise Uganda? If you think of yourself and your generation as genuine freedom fighters, what makes you think that yours was the last generation to fight for freedom? What makes you think that Ugandans must get funds from abroad in order to fight for their freedom?

I understand the source of your frustrations.
In your mind, because you control our country’s wealth and dish it out at will, you somehow do not get it when some of us reject your ‘evil money’ and stick to our values. To your mind, it can only mean that we have money from foreigners and that is why we reject yours! You are so wrong. There are patriotic Ugandans out there who are willing to risk it all, including their own lives, until they free themselves from the shackles of oppression which you have subjected us to! Ours is a homegrown revolution led by the people of Uganda to free themselves. We shall achieve this, or die trying.
But even if we were supported by foreigners?

It is an open secret that you have mortgaged our country to foreign interests. You and your Ministers are always making deals – selling off government assets, leasing out chunks of land to foreign interests (that Ugandans have no access to), and getting loans and loans that will take our people hundreds of years to pay!

Secondly, when you were fighting Obote and Amin, you were supported by foreigners. In your own book, Sowing the Mustard Seed, you speak of how foreigners supported you and donated lots of money to your bush war armed struggle. On page 82, you write that Samora Machel from Mozambique gave you $50,000 which was a lot of money at the time. On page 182, you write that the Libyans gave you $100,000 and a lot of weapons! Were these Ugandans?

Why do you think it was right for you to make trips to western capitals and get money from foreigners to fight Obote, and then at the same time make it sound criminal for us to appeal to friends abroad to support our struggle for liberation? How can you be so blind to the double standards? In any case, you were getting money and guns on your bush war expedition to kill our people. Ours on the other hand, is a genuine people’s struggle fighting for democratic rights.

8. CONCLUSION

Because of space and time constraints, I have responded to these seven issues for now. At an opportune time, I will respond to your other lies and distortions. I will also respond to your desperate attempt to ban our red beret, which symbolizes our struggle for freedom and democracy.

For now, I can assure you General Museveni that the people of Uganda will win in the end. Reflect on these words by Hon. Eriya Kategaya, your former best friend and second in command (RO-002) in his book with which I opened this statement; - “In the course of the struggle, those who have everything to lose by democracy and constitutionalism are expected to put up resistance. These forces may appear fearsome but history is replete with such cases and they never win in the end.”

People Power – Our Power

Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert-Bobi Wine

THE PEOPLE OF UGANDA ARE VISITING THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AT THE HAGUE:

By Multi Media

12th November, 2019

Visiting address

Oude Waalsdorperweg 10

2597 AK, The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel. + 31 (0)70 515 8515
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Postal address
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2500 CM, The Hague
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IN THE MATTER CONCERNING A PETITION TO THE PROSECUTOR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT BY THE PEOPLE OF UGANDA AGAINST GENERAL YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI AND OTHERS:

PETITION [Brought under Articles 5, 13 (c), 15 and 53 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court]
The undersigned PETITIONERS, being aggrieved citezens of the Republic Uganda of sound mind, hereby state as follows;

WHEREAS; the Republic of Uganda is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and indeed enacted a Municipal legislation to domesticate the same vide;…... AND WHEREAS the following International legal framework provide for the safeguard and protection of the fundamental and other human rights of all people and the Republic of Uganda subscribes thereto;
a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
The Instrument recognizes that ‘the inherent dignity of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world’.
It further declares that human rights are universal – to be enjoyed by all people, no matter who they are or where they live and the inter-alia include civil and political rights; the right to life, liberty, free speech, conscience, assembly and privacy. they also include economic, social and cultural rights, like the right to social security, health and education.
b) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Article 2(1) of the ICESCR refers to the obligation of every State Party to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a
view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the Covenant by all appropriate means.
c) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The covenant obligates state parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial.
d) Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The prohibition against torture and other forms of ill-treatment is well established as one of the absolute rights which must be respected without any restriction or derogation. This applies even in times of war or threat of war, internal political instability or public emergency, and there are no exceptional circumstances whatsoever under which torture can be justified, including any threat of terrorist acts or violent crime, or religious or traditional justification.
Article 2 of the Convention provides that a State Party has an obligation to take effective measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction, including legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures. Further, Article 2(2) states that “no exceptional circumstances whatsoever” may be invoked in justification of torture.
e) International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
It is proclaimed in Art 1 of the Convention that no one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public
emergency, may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance.
NOTING that under Article 5 of the Rome Statute the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court is confined to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, in respect to the following crimes: a) The crime of genocide; b) Crimes against humanity; c) War crimes; d) The crime of aggression.
AWARE that Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the ICC defines the offence of "crime against humanity" to mean any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: a. Murder; b. Extermination; c. Enslavement; d. Deportation or forcible transfer of population; e. Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; f. Torture; g. Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; h. Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; i. Enforced disappearance of persons;
j. Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health. k. Etcetera
RECOGNISING that the Rome Statute vests both investigative and prosecution powers and mandate in the office of The Prosecutor;
General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assumed office as President of the Republic of Uganda in January 1986 after a five-year guerilla war waged by the National Resistance Army (NRA) ostensibly to restore democratic governance and Rule of Law in the country and has over the years institutionalised a Gun Rule, abrogated the Constitution, subdued the sovereignity of the people and all State Institutions and continuously retained state power through manipulation of the country’s electoral processes.
NOTING FURTHER that during the most recent Presidential Election of 2016, General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni carried out an outright coup det tat by subverting the Will of the people, detaining Dr. Warren Kizza Besigye, a candidate who had been returned by the people of Uganda as the Validly elected president with over 51% of the votes cast, and subsequently arraigning him on tramped up charges of treason, which up to-date have never been disposed of.
AND
WHEREAS the Petitioners vehemently contend that General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and a number of high ranking security and public officers, (hereinafter referred to as “his Accomplices”), have committed heinous crimes and gross human rights violations categorized as crimes against humanity to the People of Uganda jointly and severally, for which he is liable to be subpoenaed, prosecuted, tried, convicted and punished by the International Criminal Court;
NOW THEREOFRE the PETITIONERS would like to present and state their case as hereunder;
1. Suppression, torture and extra-judicial killing of Ugandans
As a means of holding onto the illegitimately and illegally assumed power, General Museveni and his accomplices have continuously unleashed violence and terror against the citizens of Uganda to keep them muzzled and subdued. Additionally, Gen. Museveni’s regime has, at the alter of consolidation of a personal rule, committed gross human rights violations and atrocities, including but not limited to torture, suppression, repression, incarcerations and elimination or killing of people opposed, or perceived to be opposed, to the sitting regime.
This has been systematically done countrywide and state orchestrated massacres have been carried out in various parts of the country and the most recent one being the infamous Kaseese massacre that took place in the aftermath of the 2016 General elections, when security forces under the command of General Museveni and his Accomplices raided the palace of King Charles Wesley Mumbere, a cultural leader of the Bakonzo people, in Kasese District and massacred hundreds of people in the most savage manner one can imagine of. To date, no report and/or accountability has ever been given by the regime or any other local or Inernational organization or agency.
Similar massacres have been carried with impunity in Acholi Sub Region, Teso, Lango, West Nile, Luwero Triangle etc and none of the masterminds and perpetrators of the same have been brought to book.
2. Invasion of Parliament and desecration or abrogation of the National Constitution
On 27th October, 2017, during the debate of a Constitutional (Amendment) Bill which aimed at the removal of all constitutional
safe guards against General Museveni’s life Presidency plan, one of General Museveni’s militia groups – Special Forces Command (SFC), members of the Uganda Defence Forces and other security operatives invaded the chambers Parliament of Uganda, brutally harangued, beat up and dragged out several Members of Parliament, transported them in police vans and confined them in ungazetted places. Resultantly, a constitutional provision which had rendered Gen. Museveni ineligible in the forthcoming presidential elections, on account of advanced aged, was violently deleted. This was done in a blatant disregard of Art. 3 of our National Constitution which makes treasonable for any person to abrogate or amend the constitution using violent means.
The Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Rebecca Kadaga is on record writing to General Museveni thus;
“… I am seeking an explanation as to the identity, mission and purpose of the unsolicited forces. I am also seeking an explanation about why they assaulted the MPs.”
Todate,Gen. Museveni has flagrantly refused to respond to the said letter. 3. Use of the state security apparatus and a plethora of Militia Groups to persecute, dehumanize and humiliate political opponents, members of civil society organisations and the citizenry.
Gen. Museveni has over the years personalized the entire security apparatus which has systemically and systematically morphed into a terror machine. The institution of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, the Police force and other state security agencies are currently used as the most lethal political tools to persecute Gen. Museveni”s political opponents, civil society and the citizenry and to also clamp down on the lawful and legitimate activities and programs of the Country’s political dissent and civic action. Opposition political parties, civil society organisations and ordinary Ugandans have been barred from holding assemblies and/or rallies
for purposes of disseminating and/or advancing their party platforms, programs and legitimate development agenda and any attempt to organize the same is met with brutal force and violence.
Additionally, the regime has established a number of illegal paramilitary groups, hit squads and militia to wit; Special Forces Command, Commandos, Crime preventers, Kiboko squad, Boda Boda 2010, Wembly, Local Defense Unit, Flying Squad etc. These terror outfits have wrecked havoc in Kampala and other parts of the country and have immensely terrorized the Citizens and curtailed their participation in the governance of the Country.
4. Enforced disappearances and curtailment of Civil Liberies.
Uganda is currently engulfed in horrendous fear and tension as many political leaders, clerics and ordinary citizens disappear or get killed in cold blood under very mysterious circumstances. Kidnaps, abductions, illegal arrests and enforced disappearances are a commonplace occurrence today. Many Ugandans are violently and mysteriously whisked away by members of the aforesaid terror machine and security agencies and held incommunicado in secret detention facilities commonly known as “safe houses”, tortured and some eliminated incognito for the sole purpose of entrenching Gen. Museveni’s rule. A number of such dungeons and torture chambers like the notorious Nalufenya special detention facility, situate across River Nile in the Eastern part of the country, have been established various parts of the country and a score of Ugandans have been tortured, dehumanized, maimed and killed from such facilities and may are still languishing there, with little or no hope of securing a remedy or regaining their liberties and freedom.
Prayer for intervention Thanks to the pervasive impunity reigning supreme in the country, the individual perpetrators of these heinous crimes cannot be brought to justice. The independence and efficacy of both the legislative and judicial arms of the state and government have been systemically whittled and eroded by the Gen. Museveni’s “Iron fist Rule”.
The domestic criminal Justice system has been terribly debilitated and emasculated that it cannot reasonably atone for and/or address these systemic and endemic transgressions and violations. The intervention of the ICC is not only desirable but inevitable if only we are to stave off a catastrophe of grave magnitude that awaits the Pearl of Africa.
WHEREFORE YOUR PETITIONERS pray for the following;
a) That the egregious violations of the fundamental and other rights of the Petitioners and other Ugandans by Mr. Yoweri Museveni and his Accomplices tantamount to crimes against humanity within the meaning of Article 7 of the Rome Statute and that the same reasonably warrant investigations, Indictment and trial by the ICC.
b) That the Prosecutor of the ICC be pleased to initiate prosecution of General Museveni and his Accomplices before the ICC and further cause for investigation to be conducted in regard to his illegal and gross human rights violations meted out on the People of Uganda.
We have compiled cogent and overwhelming evidence to support indictment on the aforesaid crimes against humanity, which includes damning reports of different local and international human rights organisations and humanitarian agencies, individual accounts and testimonies of victims of state-inspired violence and torture, dossiers by whitsle blowers and good Samaritans within the security agencies as well as graphic, visual and audio recordings.
DATED at KAMPALA this…………day of……………………………2019.
Name National ID.No. Signature
Name National ID. No. Signature

Some of the evidence online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ug-NzzWhF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZRleJ2dGxk

About 60,000 citizens of Uganda have so far signed the petition to ICC - says the political party of Forum for Democratic Change in Uganda:

20 November, 2019

By Franklin Draku and Arthur Arnold Wadero

President Museveni and his brutal Uganda Military Police Force. They have turned the African country into a war zone.

Kampala- More than 60,000 Ugandans have signed up the ongoing petition to take President Museveni and key government officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity.

The petition is being spearheaded by the Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and the mock “People’s Government.”
The petition, launched a week ago, is aimed at asking the prosecutor at the ICC, Justice Fatou Bensouda, to prosecute Mr Museveni and his implicated officials on crimes against humanity.

Daily Monitor was not able to get the exact figures, but Ms Ingrid Turinawe, the FDC secretary for mobilisation, said more than 60,000 people had appended their signatures on the hard copies of the forms and that more forms were being dispatched to the districts. She said about 130 districts and municipalities have already received the petition forms. By yesterday evening, 3,595 people had also signed the online petition.

Copies of the petition form have also been sent to the FDC diaspora chapter offices through the People’s Government ambassadors for signing, according to the organisers.

“So far the response has been overwhelming. We may close the exercise earlier than anticipated and we are likely to get more than two million signatures,” Ms Turinawe said.

Police deploy drones

The FDC mobiliser also accused the police and other security agencies for deploying drones at both Najjanankumbi and Katonga Road offices to intimidate people from signing the petition.
Since Friday, FDC says they have been monitored by the drones, with the officials saying the deployment is aimed at stopping people from signing the petition.

“The process has been smooth except this deployment of the drones. They have been here since we started signing the petition, but this will not scare away the public because many are still signing,” she added.
By Monday, officials from Jinja District said more than 5,000 people had signed the petition.

Upcountry feedback
Across the country, district and regional coordinators say the petition has been greeted with excitement, with many willing to appending their signatures.
In Rukungiri District, the FDC executive coordinator for Rukungiri, Mr Caleb Musimenta, said they ran short of forms and had to order for more.
“Our target is 50,000 from the 16 sub-counties. We have got 15,000 signatures,” he said.
From Mbale, Mr Abdallah Magambo, the People’s Government coordinator, said while many people are signing the hard copies, he is also using whatsapp to send links to those who are willing to sign online.

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