The executive director of Uganda Media Center and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) diehard Ofwono Opondo has warned the party’s decision to challenge the Kawempe North constituency by-election noting that the move will not increase party’s support.
“Watching fully dressed police, military, and counter terrorism officers, armed to the teeth with sophisticated lethal weapons of war, assault election campaigners, voters and journalists and ransack polling stations to scatter voting materials even NRM supporters could not hide their trepidation at how low we had sunk. Rather than going to court or throwing unhelpful political tatrums over the bKawempe loss, NRM should simply wash off the heavy mud on its shoes. Blaming others, when we have been in charge uof U