Opposition political party, Justice Forum (JEEMA), has started serious strategies towards power hunt. At the beginning of this week, a group of youthful leaders from JEEMA visited Kenya on the invitation of yet to be identified official in the Kenya’s ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA).
The JEEMA delegation was received by UDA Secretary General, Veronica Maina and other Directors at the ruling party secretariat.
Impeccable sources in the party have since indicated that JEEMA’s delegation to Kenya included The JEEMA delegation included among others, Ssentongo Abdulnoor Kyamundu the party spokesman, Luswata Naswiif the Vice president Buganda region, Asega Habiib the VP Northern region and Muhindi Kennedy the VP Western region.
Others are Namakajjo Derrick the secretary legal affairs, Mukasa Abdullatif the Head of tertiary institutions and Mr Omar Kalinge Nnyago the former Secretary General.
Together with their hosts, they engaged on among others training of JEEMA leaders in resource mobilization, human resource development, and elections management.
When contacted for comment, Mr Ssentongo Kyamundu confirmed the meeting and told our reporter that they are doubling their effort in search for political power.
“Our engagement with UDA was to benchmark on how an opposition party can win power in an African suffocated political environment. We hope to have many more visits to other political parties in Africa before fronting a presidential candidate again in the next elections,” Kyamundu said.
JEEMA last fielded a Presidential Candidate in 2001 when Muhammad Mayanja vied for a second time. Now Kyamundu notes that they can’t commit the same mistakes during elections when they can benchmark from our brothers who have had success stories.
What remains to be known, is who JEEMA plans to front for the presidency in the next elections.
By JEEMA cultivating relations with Ruto’s UDA when Uganda’s opposition had traditionally been close to Raila Odinga’s political camp is deemed to be a hard-nosed approach to power hunt and might rub fellow opposition parties the wrong way, a suggestion Kyamundu dismissed as preposterous.