Kabale District RDC Mr Darius Nandinda says Mbabazi supporters will be crushed for premature electioneering
By: Godfrey Tugume
Supporters of presidential hopeful Amama Mbabazi should expect severe consequences if they continue night campaigns in Kabale District, the area Resident District Commissioner, Darius Nandinda, has warned.
Nandinda said Mbabazi's agents have started night door-to-door mobilising support before the campaign season officially begins.
"Any person caught trying to bring confusion in the district by engaging in early campaigns for the former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi will be arrested and prosecuted," warned Nandinda.
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The RDC was speaking to this website in an exclusive interview at his offices at Makanga Hill in Kabale municipality on Wednesday.
Nandinda said he had received intelligence information that, "some youth are being misled to carry out covert mobilisation at night. This is totally illegal. But we know their tricks and the full force of the law will soon catch up with them."
ChimpReports understands after Mbabazi was blocked by police from travelling to Mbale for consultative meetings, his campaign managers decided to use clandestine means of reaching out to the people.
The door-to-door campaigns are reportedly gaining momentum in Western and Eastern regions of Uganda.
Nandinda urged the youth to engage in productive ventures such as commercial agriculture for wealth creation to transform their livelihoods.
"For some time, I have been persuading these young people to refrain from premature electioneering which is illegal but they are not listening," said the RDC.
"Now we are going to be very tough with them. They will be crushed. No one will be allowed to cause confusion here. I will not allow them," he warned.
He further asked the people of Kabale to shun all politicians whom he said "have not been helping the party (NRM) but now they are coming to stand so that they can be voted as flag-bearers in national elections."
Mbabazi has in recent months been trying to woo Kabale and the entire Kigezi region to his side ahead of the 2016 elections.
However, the region has always overwhelmingly voted for Museveni in previous elections.
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