Mugisha Muntu walks to Parliament
May 05, 2011
FDC mobilisation secretary Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu yesterday walked from his home in Kololo to Parliament. This is the fourth week of the walk-to-work campaign.
FDC mobilisation secretary Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu yesterday walked from his home in Kololo to Parliament. This is the fourth week of the walk-to-work campaign.
MP Nandala Mafabi also walked.
Unlike in the past when the Police stopped opposition politicians, Mugisha Muntu, Nandala Mafabi, the Budadiri West MP, and Kumi MP Amuriat Oboi were not interrupted.
Mafabi marched from Nakawa, a city suburb. When he got near Jinja Road Police Station, boda boda riders cheered. But the Police, who stood nearby, ignored the MPs.
“We should not be restricted from exercising our rights. We shall continue walking until the Government responds to public demands. Apart from my legs hurting, I harm nobody when I walk.
It is God who should be angry with me, but he is not because he is the one who has given me the energy to walk,†Mafabi stated.
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ad the police not interfered with Besigye’s intentions to walk, chaos would not have erupted in Kampala and Kasaganti, Mafabi added.
Muntu, a legislator in the East African Legislative Assembly, argued that no one was in his company because Kololo is sparsely populated.
On the fact that a couple of opposition politicians successfully walked to their work stations without interference, he saluted security but warned that it was too early to celebrate as it was hard to foretell that clashes would not reoccur in the near future.
Other opposition politicians who walked to Parliament were Bugweri county MP-elect, Abdu Katuntu Terego county MP Kassiano Wadri and Patrick Amuriat.
Meanwhile, Democratic Party president Norbert Mao was yesterday held briefly by the police as he walked to his office.
Mao, a resident of Ntinda, left his home in the morning and started walking towards Kampala.
However, when he got to the trading centre, residents and traders got excited. Some people cheered him, while others walked with him.
MP Nandala Mafabi also walked.
Unlike in the past when the Police stopped opposition politicians, Mugisha Muntu, Nandala Mafabi, the Budadiri West MP, and Kumi MP Amuriat Oboi were not interrupted.
Mafabi marched from Nakawa, a city suburb. When he got near Jinja Road Police Station, boda boda riders cheered. But the Police, who stood nearby, ignored the MPs.
“We should not be restricted from exercising our rights. We shall continue walking until the Government responds to public demands. Apart from my legs hurting, I harm nobody when I walk.
It is God who should be angry with me, but he is not because he is the one who has given me the energy to walk,†Mafabi stated.
H
ad the police not interfered with Besigye’s intentions to walk, chaos would not have erupted in Kampala and Kasaganti, Mafabi added.
Muntu, a legislator in the East African Legislative Assembly, argued that no one was in his company because Kololo is sparsely populated.
On the fact that a couple of opposition politicians successfully walked to their work stations without interference, he saluted security but warned that it was too early to celebrate as it was hard to foretell that clashes would not reoccur in the near future.
Other opposition politicians who walked to Parliament were Bugweri county MP-elect, Abdu Katuntu Terego county MP Kassiano Wadri and Patrick Amuriat.
Meanwhile, Democratic Party president Norbert Mao was yesterday held briefly by the police as he walked to his office.
Mao, a resident of Ntinda, left his home in the morning and started walking towards Kampala.
However, when he got to the trading centre, residents and traders got excited. Some people cheered him, while others walked with him.