NAKASEKE. National Unity Platform Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias has urged Ugandans to turn out in big numbers and vote for change in the January polls, saying this is when they will attain “real independence”.
Addressing a rally at Lusanjja Primary School playground in Nakaseke District on Thursday as Uganda celebrated her 63rd Independence celebrations the two-time presidential candidate accused incumbent President Museveni and the ruling NRM of reversing the 1962 independence gains with many Ugandans forced to yarn for the pre-colonial days.
“The true Independence for Ugandans will come after the fall of this present government. Our children, parents and many other innocent Ugandans are in jail for no serious reasons but simply because they support the opposition. Our colonial masters did not act the way President Museveni and his government is curtailing freedom of the people,” he said.
He said even though the colonialists left, they left behind ‘black colonialists’ who are worse than those they replaced.
“When President Museveni and his group met our parents for mobilisation as they waged the bush war, they laid down reasons that appeared genuine, making the war acceptable to the wider population in Buganda where the war was fought. But after 40-years ,we are regretting and forced to ask many questions. We have the ability to change this system through the ballot box in 2026,” he said
Before Kyagulanyi took to the podium area MPs, Paulson Lutamaguzi (Nakaseke South), Allan Mayanja(Nakaseke Central) both decried the rotten infrastructure including the access roads that are in sorry state despite the NRM ruling government claiming that the area is its cradle land.
“In Kiwoko Town Council, we do not have a single health unit. Many people are victims of the ongoing land evictions and land grabbing by well-connected individuals serving the NRM government,” he said.
The NUP presidential candidate earlier claimed that security forces had denied him the opportunity to address another rally in Nakaseke when they confiscated the public address system.
But Nakaseke Resident District Commissioner , Ms Rosemary Byabashaija in a telephone interview with this publication dismissed the claims about the scheduled rallies. The security was only aware of the rally organized at Lusanja playground and not any other place. Those are false claims, she said in a phone interview.