Main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) foot soldiers in Mbarara City were angry at a Vision Group journalist asked a question they thought was childish, and they felt it important to tell him so to his face.
Ali Wasswa, who reports for Vision Group outlets like Bukedde, had put on a yellow t-shirt to the press conference for released NUP Ankole sub-region coordinator Bright Muhumuza.
At the home of Muhumuza in Kakoba, Wasswa asked the NUP Vice President for Western Uganda Jolly Jackline Tukamushaba about the allegations that the opposition party attacked security in the recently concluded Kawempe North MP by-election.
“Madam Vice President, in Kawempe, NUP foot soldiers attacked NRM supporters. Why did they do that? You accuse the regime of abducting your party members, so why provoke them,” Wasswa asked.
But NUP foot soldiers guarding Muhumuza and Tukamushaba accused Wasswa of asking questions that did not make sense.
One even attacked him for reportedly asking senseless questions given the many decades he has spent reporting.
Another one wondered why a young female reporter was asking ‘better questions’ than the very experienced Wasswa.
The Vision Group journalist seemed to dare the NUP officials to answer his question even if they clearly did not think it deserved an answer.
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After the Kawempe North by-election won by NUP’s Nalukoola Luyimbaazi, President Yoweri Museveni’s supporters began claiming that the ruling NRM party’s candidate was rigged.
Some of the claims appear outlandish to opposition supporters but NRM sympathizers have kept parroting them. It looks like these NUP foot soldiers ‘mistook’ Wasswa for an NRM sympathizer trying to give credence to allegations they considered bizarre.
Meanwhile, the swearing-in ceremony of NUP’s Nalukoola seems to hang in balance with the Electoral Commission yet to gazette, after Museveni’s NRM said they would challenge the results in court. (See Details Here).
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