{UAH} Under surveillance in Kasangati: Being Besigye’s neighbour - News
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Every waking moment is a nightmare for Dr Besigye's neighbour Mama Nampijja, who has to closely monitor her bubbly one-year-old daughter and hyperactive two-year-old son.
She lives less than 100 metres from Dr Besigye's farmhouse. Mama Nampijja says that often, when the police unexpectedly fire teargas to disperse the public, she has to run around looking for her children in the melee.
"I cannot be at peace once the children leave the house and move closer to the roadside to play. So, I restrict their movement to where I can monitor them. I am always afraid that teargas will be fired any moment, which could hurt them," she said.
Ten years ago, Kasangati was a typical sleepy village on the outskirts of the city. Over time, it started attracting the moneyed working class who acquired land from real estate firms and built gated homes.
Today Kasangati is a developed suburb with petrol stations, supermarkets, pharmacies, recreation facilities and a model health centre for teaching community health.
But the neighbourhood also has its share of the not so well-off — smallholder farmers who supply fresh fruits and vegetables to markets in Kampala, boda bodas and small-scale traders in the mini-markets and retail shops.
Most of these changes came around 2006 when Dr Besigye, who previously lived in the Luzira suburb of the city, relocated to Kasangati after returning from exile in South Africa, and run for the presidency that year, his second shot at the country's highest office. The community was buzzing with excitement of being neighbours with a presidential candidate.
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