Willy Mayambala an Independent presidential candidate in Uganda's ongoing presidential campaigns has called off his physical campaigns‚ citing a threatening increase in the COVID19 cases and deaths.
Mayambala now says he has resorted to electronic campaigns and wants NIRA to avail him of all contacts of Ugandans for easy access.
So far Uganda has registered 402 new cases making a total of 28,168 cases since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the East African country in March. A total of 10,005 have recovered and the country has lost 225 people to the pandemic in the past nine months only.
Meanwhile, Presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni the flag bearer of the ruling National Resistance Movement is aggressively combing through the western region of Uganda seeking support from voters.
He has commissioned the newly constructed Ishakaâ€"Katunguru road (58km), officially opened the Kasese Central Market constructed under the Markets, and Agricultural Trade Improvement Program(MATIP), it will accommodate at least 800 vendors and amenities including a daycare center.
'At the sidelines of our campaign meetings in Kasese yesterday, NRM party leaders from the district gifted me with 10 heifers as a token of appreciation,' Candidate Museveni said on Tuesday.
On the side of the opposition candidates, Robert Kyagulanyi representing the National Unity Party in the race, this candidate has staged a tough resistance against the ruling party telling his supporters that change is inevitable.
He says that there is no rule of law in Uganda, adding that the country runs on orders from a small circle of oppressors who dispense orders that are implemented without question.
Kyagulanyi says the Ugandan security has launched chemical attacks on members of the NUP party, 'we believe there was a chemical attack on our team by the military in police uniforms. We condemn all human rights abuses by the M7 regime. One day justice will be served.'
The candidate also claims his social media channels and those of his supporters are being targeted by the state operatives as they attempt pulling down most of the vocal platforms.
'Having gagged Ugandan media with all manner of repressive laws, raids, arrests & intimidation (plus taxing social media), the regime now asks Google to block social media channels that support us or carry message of change! The dictator is in panic,' Kyagulanyi claims.
On Wednesday, Kyagulanyi said due to the pressure the NUP has subjected to the government, the ruling party NRM is offering bribes to NUP candidates to pull out of the campaigns.
'While patients in our hospitals die because there is no oxygen, the NRM has approached almost all NUP candidates offering them hundreds of millions to quit the race! Some are offered up to 200m, others more, other less! This is what our money does! Why we must remove the dictator,' Kyagulanyi noted.
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