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Opposition political party National Unity Platform opened its new headquarters in Makerere Kavule in Kampala's Kawempe division on Friday.

Party leader Robert Kyagulanyi was joined by former Forum Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr Kizza Besigye and Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago at the much anticipated grand opening of the new office.

Kyagulanyi, wearing a navy blue suit and red tie, was also accompanied by his wife Barbie, their arrival cheered by hundreds of their supporters.

The event happened exactly three years since Kyagulanyi was nominated to run for president in a race in which he eventually emerged second-best to incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

Friday's function in Makerere Kavule marked the relocation of NUP from its erstwhile headquarters in Kamwokya in Central division, with party secretary general David Rubongoya telling supporters that they had used for the former office "free of charge" for four years.

He added that party leader Kyagulanyi "has allowed us to continue using that place for NUP, for People Power, and we have decided that in Kamwokya, we are going to establish the National Unity Platform School of Leadership."

Rubongoya said further: "That is where we shall take our trainings so that comrade leaders can be educated in leadership and other aspects."

The NUP secretary general said their initial plan for a headquarters requires over sh4 billion, "which is a lot of money which we do not have right now, but we decided that we should be able to use what we have to create something beautiful out of it".

At the time they unveiled the new location for their headquarters in 2022, "we only had two plots.....but from last year, we have been able to acquire four more plots in this very place."

One of the buildings houses the office of the party's president.