{UAH} Mbale crowds overwhelm Mbabazi team, police -mbale here i come
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Mbale crowds overwhelm Mbabazi team, police
Written by Sadab Kitatta Kaaya
Amama Mbabazi at Mbale Cricket Grounds If crowds indeed mean votes then Amama Mbabazi's political team can be pleased with their first political field test in Mbale today.
From what seemed like ill preparations from the onset, Mbabazi's team can take consolation from the big crowds that welcomed their candidate.
On arrival at Pretoria Hotel at about 12:20pm, Mbabazi was sandwiched by his supporters who asked him not to proceed to the meeting hall saying all those waiting for him were loyalists of the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni.
Mbabazi pleaded with the supporters to let him attend the consultative meeting with mobilisers, opinion, cultural and religious leaders for at least 10 minutes so he could proceed to a public rally at the Cricket grounds.
"I thank you for welcoming me in such big numbers. I have never been welcomed like this", he said.
Crowds in Mbale waiting for Amama Mbabazi at Cricket Grounds His team advised to have the meeting postponed to a later in the day for fear that police would block will not allow the public rally to take place late in the evening.
Enroute to the Cricket grounds police attempted to block Mbabazi's convoy which was now followed by a large crowd from using Bishop Wasike road but for fear disrupting traffic in Mbale town.
In defiance, Mbabazi refused to use the alternative route of Tororo road and decided to walk to the Cricket grounds with his supporters.
The supporters forced their way through police barricades that included water tankers, police trucks, heaps of soil among others.
Mbabazi's supporters manoeuver around some of the trucks used to block Mbale streets Addressing the rally, Mbabazi said he chose to start with Mbale because because of "its historical contribution in our struggles in liberation of not only Uganda but also East Africa".
Amama Mbabazi greeting some of his supporters at a rally He also mocked the police for having blocked his convoy and instead forcing him to walk and "see the true picture and state of Mbale town". He promised Mbale residents that if elected, he is going to "restore and transform the town back to its glory" when it was known as the cleanest town in Uganda, East Africa and among the best in Africa.
On peace and stability, Mbabazi said it is currently an "illusion" and that the NRM achievements in the last 30 years - are all at risk because the country is headed towards another bloodshed similar to the one that ushered in this government in 1986. He is expected in Kapchorwa tomorrow.
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The people have waken up, they dont need Districts rather they need better services in Agriculture, Health and Education, better pay for Doctors and Teachers and having quality Primary education where pupils eat lunch and put on school uniforms.
The support NRM is enjoying is just out of fear and lack of a better alternative as the opposition had run out of ideas and instead engage in eating NRM money and fighting people's representatives . We shall VOTE for JPAM. The issue is not whether he can win President Museveni but rather whether President Museveni will accept Defeat as it already coming.
Has anyone noticed that he tries to hog the headlines everyday even playing football with kids on the roadsides and commissioning classrooms and boreholes?
The Clown has the biggest Cabinet probably in the world and hundreds of Presidential advisers a.k.a idlers ( including Mirundi) but he is running around like a headless chicken because he cant bear the thought of leaving his taj Mahal in Entebbe and not looting more of our taxes!
But surely, not all Ugandans are fools! Ugandans know Sudhir , Aya brothers, Basajja Balaba, Hamu, etc work for.
All that wealth will return to the state once the real owners go.
Unless he rigs , he on his way out because the next vote is not FOR Besigye , Amama Mbabazi or Bukenya; the vote is AGAINST Musevenism , as a hated culture and Museveni the exatravant dictator.
In other words , the crows that collect when Museveni comes around , and these who dance with him these days do it because they expect to be paid.
The ones who come today to meet Amama Mbabazi or those who attend Besigyes rallies do it mainly because they are tired of Museveni.
I believe you our MAn
You have been around with the wrong group
for too long. Those who are calling you names sorry for them
They are in for a shock of their lives. Long live JPM. you will go thorough because God loves.
This is the man Uganda needs for its prosperity and proper development and good
infrastrature. People are tired of liars....
Did I recently read another headline about Kadaga saying JPAM should back off from the East?
It is clear to me Mbabazi knows something which many of us and his competitors do not know.
Did I also read Capt Mukula said JPAM won't be able to raise the required 100 nominations?
WOW.....OMG.... .Am but lost for words. JPAM left Kla this morning saying he expected to meet about 1,000 people, but lo and behold, a multitude!
We have always gone to M7's meetings/rallys not because we love him but just for 'security' reasons and also some for 'eating'.
But fortunately today most if not all the people are seeing the light. Judging by the crowds both Dr. KB and now JPAM are drawing, General Teargas Karekezi should equally see the light because by the looks of things a new day is dawning on us. Soon and very soon.....
The ICC should also brace for the worst from Uganda because the Chief Hunter and Emperor cannot let go of his "Kill" so easily!
In demonizing, belittling, harassing, and underrating JPAM, M7, his Police under Karekezi, & NRM in general are only helping him (JPAM) to gain support every passing moment.
Abantu twakoowa!
Again, a Wiseman once said, "The race is not always for the swiftest nor battles are for the mighty, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of ability..." Eccl. 9:11
Mbabazi has come in the right time,we need readers who are not going to pay for votes but voters paying for them to be rule the country.
Rally behind him and the rest will be history.
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