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Uganda will be going to another general election early next year, the electoral commission has already issued out a road map and has already done several activities like gazetting electoral areas and updating the national voter’s register which was done last month.
This month too, Kawempe North voters will be going to a highly contested by-election replacing Muhammad Ssegirinya Mr. Update who died in January. The race has attracted 10 candidates, five from political parties NUP, NRM, PPP, DP and FDC while the other 5 are independent candidates of whom 2 were denied NUP ticket, one denied NRM ticket, another denied UPC ticket and the other one standing in the shadow of Katonga based PFF.
Ahead of the by-election, security organs are on the spot of brutalizing political opponents especially NUP’s Luyimbaazi and his supporters as the NRM candidate who is also a daughter to the party’s first National Chairperson Alhajji Moses Kigongo goes about her campaigns uninterrupted and even does processions in busy roads.
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On the nomination day, officers from the Joint Anti Terrorism Task Force (JAT) brutalized NUP supporters and were condemned. They were back to work yesterday alongside police and army as NUP took their campaign caravan to Kawempe Muslim primary school play ground.
These beat up people, fired teargas and bullets and some leaders and supporters were detained. As a follow up to what transpired yesterday, National Unity Platform General Secretary was at Wandegeya police station to check on the detained supporters and leaders.
Media ran for this story and an NTV journalist Steven Mbidde faced the wrath of angry police cops who wrestled him down on the group as he came through to interview NUP’s secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya.
A top Tv journalist Miracle Ibra is still admitted at Nsambya hospital nursing face wounds meted on him by the no nonsense JAT cops who beat him in the face. Several leaders have including Arch Bishop Paul who condemned the actions of security cops and urged Museveni’s government to abolish elections, rule by decree other than organizing elections and beat people like animals.
VIDEO CREDIT: NTV Uganda
Yesterday as violence was reigning on NUP supporters, another NTV journalist was assaulted and told to delete footage he had recorded as the hooded JAT operatives unleashed havoc.
WATCH VIDEO: Our own news reporter, Steven Mbidde, was seen being attacked by men in uniform earlier this morning as he attempted to speak to David Lewis Rubongoya at Wandegeya Police Station, where some of the arrested NUP supporters were being held after yesterday’s raid.… pic.twitter.com/p5H1DTfL4t
— NTV UGANDA (@ntvuganda) March 4, 2025
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