By Nathan Eyagu
SOROTI CITY
Retired Colonel, Dr. Kizza Besigye yesterday, 24th July 2022 brought Soroti City to a standstill having appeared ‘miraculously’ after surviving an arrest in Jinja City.
Besigye who was largely expected to join FDC’s team campaigning for its candidate, Moses Attan Okia beat security’s attempt at blocking him when it arrested his vehicle at Igar Petrol Station in Jinja City.
Information available to this website indicates that Besigye had gotten out of the vehicle by the time it was intercepted. Consequently, it was his political assistant, Ronald Muhinda, his driver Fred Kato and his aide, Ketra who were arrested.
The Soroti team had also intimated to this reporter that the FDC Honcho had indeed been stopped from coming to Soroti. However, people got a shock of their lives when he appeared at Attan’s campaign rally at Kichinjaji Ward in Soroti City East in a small car.
Besigye brought most businesses to a standstill after he surprisingly appeared at the campaign trail of Attan Moses Okia in Kichinjaji ward where he was cheered by thousands of supporters before setting off for Soroti city where they were welcomed by different stopovers.
‘’ Museveni and his people are panicking, the people of Teso have suffered for all these decades, the whole country has been destroyed by the forty years of NRM, you can’t say people are suffering because of Covid and the war in Russia, the hunger in Uganda also came up because of the misrule in Uganda, we don’t have any reserve of oil and food in Uganda,’’ Besigye said.
He further added that the new government program of the Parish Development Model is a hoax to play with the brains of the people arguing that all the money government is sending to the parishes will never kick out poverty because most of it will be taken back.
‘Ariko was once FDC and we campaigned for him here and we voted for him, for some time he walked with Muntu and left too, came as an independent then later got confused and went to NRM, even if I was an NRM supporter, I wouldn’t vote for Ariko,’’ he added.
He further called the people of Teso to stand up and say no as NRM is killing the country including the education system.
‘’Vote for Attan on Thursday, we know they are going to cheat even if we are many, mobilize everybody to go to the polling station early to vote, receive their money because those are your taxes, we must be vigilant because of the cheating, we must guard the tally center and the votes until they announce that Attan has won, every single day there is two billion for State House, we are saying this budget should change, after elections, we shall tell you what follows, after all, he says that he eats cassava, the people of Teso will uproot for him cassava,’’ he added.
