NRM faces sh3b party logo suit

COURT|POLITICS

A 50-year-old man has commenced the process of dragging the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to court seeking sh3b in compensation for designing its logo.

In a notice of intention to sue lodged at the NRM's directorate of legal services last week, John Agira-Ruhanga says he created the party symbol that constitutes a bus, Bible, thumb, sunrise, green vegetation and blue streams, but was never paid for doing so.

"The symbol has been an effective tool of mobilisation for the NRM party and the propagation of its ideology of patriotism, socio-economic transformation, democracy and pan Africanism," Agira-Ruhanga says.

The Kiruhura-based drama actor says NRM is solid and unshakable because of his logo and that the party is allegedly going to triumph in the forthcoming general election because of it.

"The party has so far won five general elections resoundingly and is destined to triumph again in 2021 using the symbol and it is only fair that they pay me sh3b as reward for my sweat," Agira-Ruhanga says.

Agira-Ruhanga revealed that they developed the ideal of the logo under a drama group dubbed ‘Ankole Philharmonic Orchestra'.

"I dropped out of school in Senior Three and we formed a drama group together with 20 colleagues of mine. We later developed the ideal of the logo which was later adopted by NRM. This gave me a chance to meet President Yoweri Museveni, who promised to take me back to school, but my efforts to get back to him have always been frustrated to date," Agira-Ruhanga said.

Agira-Ruhanga says because of his innovation, he became an NRM delegate for Kiruhura district.

"The only benefit I received for my innovation was being made a member of the NRM's delegates from Kiruhura district," Agira-Ruhanga says.

Agira-Ruhanga has now given NRM two weeks to compensate him, lest he seek legal redress.