Chaos as DP supporters disrupt NRM registration exercise

BUKOTO SOUTH CONSTITUENCY

KAMPALA - DP party supporters in Bukoto South Constituency, Lwengo district disrupted the NRM party registration exercise.

The fracas forced the area NRM party registrars to abandon the exercise fearing for their safety.

The affected areas included Ngondati, Buyiiki, Lubanda and Manja A villages in Kissekka sub-county, where DP commands the majority support.

The registrars reported that the Nsangi Division Council Chairperson in Wakiso district, Hajji Abdu Kiyimba was among the politicians who incited the DP supporters for selfish interests.

The NRM registrar who fled included James Ssenkoto (Lubanda village), Josephine Nabisubi, Oliver Nantayi ( Lubanda village)and Josephine Nabisubi (Buyiiki village).

The New Vision learnt that the affected villages are DP strongholds and ancestral home of the former secretary-general of DP, Mathias Nsubuga.

The Lwengo Resident District Commissioner (RDC)Juuko Kasiita,  area MP Muyanja Mbabali, and NRM district party Chairperson Mulindwa Birimumaso intervened in the matter.

In the letters dated March 13, addressed to the office of  Kissekka sub-county, the  NRM party supervisor, the affected registrars led by Josephine Nabisubi blamed Kiyimba and DP supporters for trying to manipulate the exercise for their selfish interests.

"The DP supporters led by Kiyimba have failed our duties and the exercise, we have been forced to suspend it to pave way for further management," Nabisubi said.

 
She said the DP supporters threatened to harm her family if she does not comply with their demands.

James Ssenkoto, the registrar Manja A village said he was attacked by strangers from Kampala who threatened him.  He said they were in the company of Kiyimba and the opposition supporters in the area.

"I know some of the opposition supporters and leaders who wanted to force us to register them, I had to abandon the exercise to first consult on the way forward," he said.

Dram unfolded later on March 13, when the area MP, Mbabali Muyanja and
the NRM party district chairperson disagreed with the idea of registering the  DP supporters.

Mbabali said he had received information that the DP supporters who disrupted the exercise were plotting to fail the NRM party by infiltrating the party internal elections.

"This is trap targeting me and President Museveni, the DP supporters should first hand over their party cards to us to prove that their defection is genuine, otherwise I'm smelling a rotten rat," he said.