{UAH} UGANDAN EXILES STAGE LONDON PROTEST.

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Are some people going in circles? Are the holy ones back to square 1971 since 1986?
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Ugandan exiles stage anti-Museveni protest.

By Our Reporter 

Posted on February 9, 2016

Ugandan exiles in the United Kingdom Monday staged a protest against President Yoweri Museveni's overstay in power.
Around a dozen Ugandan exiles, all UK residents, reports IBTimes , stood outside Uganda House, home of the Ugandan embassy in London, on 8 February, to call for voters to choose either of Musevenis two opponents.
These are Dr Kizza Besigye – leader of opposition party Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) – and John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, a former prime minister and former ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party secretary general, who will be running under the GoForward banner.
"Uganda's problem is 30 years overdue. We want to tell the world Ugandans are tired. They dont want Museveni," Richard Okwon, a political activist for Uganda Transformation Union, told IBTimes UK.
Okwon, whose organisation was set up in August 2015 to restructure and reboot the now dysfunctional democracy in Uganda, claimed Besigye and Amama Mbabazi were the best alternatives for peace in Uganda.
"Let them come into the system and the rest of the Ugandans will make a new roadmap for Uganda, with a new constitution accepting ourselves and reconciling ourselves," he said, citing the example of Uganda's ethnic northern war led by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) for the rights of the regions Acholi people, against perceived discrimination by the government.
Okwon highlighted claims of rigged elections amid growing concern about intimidations, including the alleged killing of one of Amama Mbabazi's security officer, crime preventer militias and attacks on journalists and NGO workers.
"These are intimidations to scare people off. The electoral commission should have updated the registry, but they didnt – its the military that did it. And the trick we know from past records, they will put your name in the wrong polling station, so by the time you go for the voting, your name is not there; you go to the second one, your name is not there again, so people give up and just go home," Okwon said.
Okwon said it is up to Ugandans to decide for the fate of their nation, as he believes the African Union (a dog without teeth that can bark but have no influence) might only stand and watch if electoral violence were to occur, as it has in Burundi.
"My appeal to the militias is they should understand the blood trail of Museveni. My concern is Ugandans are upset and it may flare up. That is my greatest concern. So I would appeal to [Musevenis] great supporters to peacefully let Uganda transcend this period and have a new roadmap for Uganda, agreed by all corners of Uganda."
It is believed Uganda has the largest East African community in the UK, where around 100,000 Ugandan British live.

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