UPDF, Police Seal off Green Nature Resort Busabala over Amb Birigwa's Planned Extraordinary Meeting.

The joint security forces have heavily deployed in Busabala cordoning off the road leading to Green Nature Resort where the Forum for Democratic Change FDC party Chairman, Ambassador Wasswa Birigwa had organized the extraordinary Delegates' Conference.

The High Court in Kampala on Monday blocked the extraordinary Delegates' Conference slated for Tuesday 19/09/2023. Justice Esta Nambayo ruled that, "the earlier interim injunction is extending pending the final disposal of the main case."

On Wednesday last week, the Police’s Director of Operations, Assistant Inspector General of Police, John Nuwagira, said that the police will not provide security for the delegates’ conference.

Nuwagira explained that the police received Birigwa’s letter seeking security protection for the summoned delegates’ conference on Monday this week. However, he also said that on Tuesday another letter was received from the party’s Secretary General Nandala Mafabi challenging the conference. 

FDC is embroiled in conflicts resulting from allegations that money from an unknown source was used in the 2021 general elections. However, the party’s elder’s forum dismissed the allegations after an independent investigation but this has not erased the accusations.

The party is currently split into two factions with one faction led by Amuriat and Nandala Mafabi while the other group is led by former FDC President Kizza Besigye, Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, and Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda.