Our nationwide mobilization tour will resume on Monday July 15th in Bundibugyo district after close to a month of a halt that we voluntarily took to honor four of our fallen colleagues who died on our way to Masaka District on the ill fated day of May 31st.
While we mourned our fallen colleagues, the Uganda Police capitalized on the sorrowful tragedy and slapped a blanket ban on our tour as they faulted us for the fatal accident that had occured. They wrote a letter saying our tours would not proceed till we held round table engagements with them to guarantee that no accidents would again ‘occur’
In that spirit as a law abiding entity, we Thursday June 11th honored an invitation to the Naguru Police Headquarters to listen to what police had to offer ahead of our mobilization tour. The closed door engagement took close to 3 hours, and our secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya, Spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, Deputy President for Northern Dr. Lina Zedriga and our diaspora affairs officer Counsel Saasi Marvin were in attendance.
Speaking to the press after the meeting, our Spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi said the meeting was a success.
“They did invite us for the meeting after we wrote to them notifying them about our next phase of the countrywide Tour. You remember, we were meant to start this very week, but when they wrote asking us to meet them, we paused and agreed to meet them, engage and establish what their concerns are and so on,” he said. “They kept saying now you should not allow many cars to join you each time you leave Kavule. But we said, we are several leaders, each with their own means of transport. Several other people get to join us along the way. That’s not the determination we can make and we are not responsible for everybody that gets to join us, because even some wrong elements can join us along the way and that’s why we told police that it’s the reason we notify them to be present as we carry out our activities, not to stop them but to ensure that law and order prevail,” he added.
Our activities will resume next week in Western Uganda with Bundibugyo as our first district then others follow as disclosed in an attached program.
Our Secretary General rallied the people to prepare for the tour and attend in large numbers as always.
“We encourage our people to be there and wait for us and we shall be together with our president,” he said.
The LoP Ssenyonyi emphasized that the police reins in on their errant DPCs and RPCs who tend to sabotage our activities.
“As we engage here have cordial relations and so on, we hope the police will also engage their DPCs, RPCs to behave as such. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense if we meet them here and they’re cordial yet on ground we are facing harsh conditions, then these engagements cease to have any meaning,” he added.
Here is our detailed program of the #NUPCountryWideTour2
