DP deploys team to guard their votes in Omoro

Aug 23, 2016

"We are appealing to the Police boss, Gen. Kale Kayihura and Electoral Commission to help us have a peaceful, free and fair election."

PIC: DP publicist Kenneth Kakande addressed a press conference in Kampala on Tuesday. (Credit: Danielle Nalukenge)

KAMPALA - The Democratic Party (DP) has deployed a team of youth to guard the votes of their candidate Pamela Lanyero who contesting for the Omoro district Woman MP seat.

The team is headed by MPs Gonzaga Sewungu (Kalungu East), and Florence Namayanja (Bukoto East MP).

The party's publicity secretary, Kenneth Kakande said they received information that there was another group of hooligans mobilized from Kampala to disorganize the process on voting day.

"We are appealing to the Police boss Gen. Kale Kayihura and the Electoral Commission to help us have a peaceful, free and fair election. They should condemn those behind such groups and bring them to book. We have issued a warning and we are ready for them if police fails to do its work," he told reporters at a the party's weekly press conference in Kampala

Lanyero will be tussling it out with Prossy Alanyo Owiny (FDC), Catherine Lamwaka (NRM) while Christine Atimango Odongo and Santa Okot are running as independents.

Omoro is one of the five new districts where elections are to be held on August 29, for district Woman MPs and chairpersons. Others are Kagadi, Kakumiro, Rubanda and Kibaale.

Calls for police force restructuring

Kakande also called on Government to revisit its position on the Police force, saying its image had been tarnished completely by reckless officers.

He called for a general restructuring within the force's leadership, saying doing so will help to improve the image of the force which has been tarnished recently by the unprofessional conduct of some individual police officers.

Kakande noted that there are good officers who can serve professionally to rebrand the image of police but are not give chance.

Last month police traveling on police patrol cars clobbered supporters of FDC politician Col. Kizza Besigye as he drove past them from High Court, going to his home in Kasangati.

The DP publicist described the appointment of Assistant Inspector General of Police, Andrew Felix Kaweesi as the new head of Police Public relations department, as a diversionary move to cover up the police boss Kayihura.

"There is no need for Gen Kayihura to panic. If he is innocent as he claims, let him go and answer his charges. He always tells Besigye to follow the law, so why doesn't he do the same?"

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