Museveni campaigns for NRM in Masaka
Aug 12, 2007
“POLITICS in not a game, it is life and death. If you vote badly, you will face negative consequences,†President Museveni warned at a campaign rally in Kalungu East on Saturday. Museveni was campaigning for Umaru Lule Mawiya, the NRM candidate for the parliamentary seat.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
“POLITICS in not a game, it is life and death. If you vote badly, you will face negative consequences,†President Museveni warned at a campaign rally in Kalungu East on Saturday.
He said it was a taboo for any NRM member to vote and support a candidate from another party.
“Our candidate is an additional pillar that will strengthen our house if you vote him to parliament,†he said.
Museveni was campaigning for Umaru Lule Mawiya, the NRM candidate for the parliamentary seat. The other contenders for the seat are DP’s Mukasa Mbidde, FDC’s Joseph Kayemba and Joseph Musoke, an independent candidate.
The seat fell vacant over a year ago after court disqualified Mukiibi Sserunjogi for lack of academic qualifications.
Museveni, the chairman of the NRM party, urged supporters to appreciate the multi-party system, where one’s political organisation is above individuals and has to be supported at all cost. He then asked them to vote for Mawiya as the NRM flag-bearer.
He said the Kalungu East race was between the NRM and other parties, that was why the party supporters had to vote for Mawiya.
He said this would help the NRM consolidate its social and economic programmes. He said Mawiya may have some weaknesses and differences with some NRM members but he was loyal to the party.
Museveni warned Mbidde not to use the constituency as “his base for fighting the Movement government.â€
He said the Government would fight him like other opponents in Kampala who attempted to fight the Government. “We shall fight him if his aim is to turn this constituency into a base for fighting us. This is tit for tat,†he said.
Museveni said he had been told that Mbidde was threatening to get him (Museveni) ‘by the collar’. He said that this was a big joke since many others had dared him and got a nasty experience. He advised Mbidde to first join the NRM if he wants to get support.
He called for unity within the Movement as the only way of winning more support at the grassroots level. He cited apartheid in South Africa which he said was overcome because people spoke as one. He said only the NRM can lead Uganda to prosperity.
He asked the people in the area to embrace the prosperity for all “bonna baggaggawale†programme as a strategy to fight poverty.
He advised them to use the NRM to solve social problems such as poverty and underdevelopment.
On land tenure, the President assured the people that no landlord can evict those who occupied land 10 years before the 1995 Constitution. He stressed that a tenant can negotiate compensation with the landlord. He assured them that it is not the NRM that is evicting people from their land.
He also warned teachers to stop forcing school children to pay lunch fees and asked LC officials to report such teachers sabotaging the UPE programme.
“POLITICS in not a game, it is life and death. If you vote badly, you will face negative consequences,†President Museveni warned at a campaign rally in Kalungu East on Saturday.
He said it was a taboo for any NRM member to vote and support a candidate from another party.
“Our candidate is an additional pillar that will strengthen our house if you vote him to parliament,†he said.
Museveni was campaigning for Umaru Lule Mawiya, the NRM candidate for the parliamentary seat. The other contenders for the seat are DP’s Mukasa Mbidde, FDC’s Joseph Kayemba and Joseph Musoke, an independent candidate.
The seat fell vacant over a year ago after court disqualified Mukiibi Sserunjogi for lack of academic qualifications.
Museveni, the chairman of the NRM party, urged supporters to appreciate the multi-party system, where one’s political organisation is above individuals and has to be supported at all cost. He then asked them to vote for Mawiya as the NRM flag-bearer.
He said the Kalungu East race was between the NRM and other parties, that was why the party supporters had to vote for Mawiya.
He said this would help the NRM consolidate its social and economic programmes. He said Mawiya may have some weaknesses and differences with some NRM members but he was loyal to the party.
Museveni warned Mbidde not to use the constituency as “his base for fighting the Movement government.â€
He said the Government would fight him like other opponents in Kampala who attempted to fight the Government. “We shall fight him if his aim is to turn this constituency into a base for fighting us. This is tit for tat,†he said.
Museveni said he had been told that Mbidde was threatening to get him (Museveni) ‘by the collar’. He said that this was a big joke since many others had dared him and got a nasty experience. He advised Mbidde to first join the NRM if he wants to get support.
He called for unity within the Movement as the only way of winning more support at the grassroots level. He cited apartheid in South Africa which he said was overcome because people spoke as one. He said only the NRM can lead Uganda to prosperity.
He asked the people in the area to embrace the prosperity for all “bonna baggaggawale†programme as a strategy to fight poverty.
He advised them to use the NRM to solve social problems such as poverty and underdevelopment.
On land tenure, the President assured the people that no landlord can evict those who occupied land 10 years before the 1995 Constitution. He stressed that a tenant can negotiate compensation with the landlord. He assured them that it is not the NRM that is evicting people from their land.
He also warned teachers to stop forcing school children to pay lunch fees and asked LC officials to report such teachers sabotaging the UPE programme.