National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has today launched the party’s Nationwide Membership Registration aimed at enrolling our supporters into the national Party register. Kyagulanyi launched the exercise on the second and last day of NUP registrars’ and Focal Persons’ training that took place at the party headquarters in Makerere, Kavule where he also dispatched materials that the registrars will use.
Speaking at the gathering, Kyagulanyi said that despite the current status of the political space, they are supposed to be organized because the future belongs to those who are organized, and therefore asked all leaders to strive to organize the party.
He added that stating that regardless of attempts by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) to hinder democratic progress by purportedly trying to install General Muhoozi Kainerugaba as President Yoweri Museveni’s successor; eventually, elections will need to be held, and added that when that time comes, NUP will need to be found to confront what he called a tyranny.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines, Joel Ssenyonyi- the Leader of Opposition said that whatever they are doing under the law and warned any security person who will attempt to stop their registrars from exercising what has been launched today; will dealt with individually. He also urged NUP supporters not to succumb to intimidation but rather to actively participate in the registration process.
For his part; David Lewis Rubongoya, the party secretary General said that the current campaign is in line with the Kunga Campaign that was launched in 2022 led by Bobi Wine’s brother Fred Nyanzi in a bid to spread the party’s gospel of change at all levels across the country with mobilization committees from villages, and parishes up to the National level.
Rubongoya also disclosed that the training had attracted registrars from all 146 districts and 353 constituencies, and made it clear that the NUP membership card would be available for a nominal fee of only 1000 shillings.
Meanwhile; Kyagulanyi also announced that they will soon start the second phase of the countrywide tour as part of strengthening the grassroots mobilization ahead of the party structures-building exercise.
This will be the second time NUP has attempted to hold nationwide tours in two years since September last year when he visited several places including, Mayuge, Busia, Mbale, Mbarara, Kasese, Kabale, Arua, and Luweero among others where thousands turned up to hear his message.
However, this campaign faced a setback when Police banned the tours saying that NUP had veered off what had been agreed upon before the police allowed them to go ahead. In the police statement signed by the deputy Inspector General of police Tumusiime Katsigazi, they said that they can’t allow NUP tours to go on because while addressing people in the Luweero district, Kyagulanyi allegedly attacked President Museveni and threatened to overthrow an elected government.
“In Kasana-Luweero, the mobilization activity was used to incite violence, promote sectarianism, make illegitimate calls for the removal of an elected government, and issuance of defamatory statements against the person of The President of the Republic of Uganda. In view of the above blatant breaches of the guidelines, the activities of the NUP are immediately suspended,” the statement read in part.
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