KAMPALA-UGANDA/ NEWSDAY: Police have declined to release a sound truck belonging to the National Unity Platform-NUP candidate Harriet Nakwede, for the Kayunga LC V chairperson by-elections. Police and the army intercepted the sound truck at around 8pm on Monday evening as the NUP team was returning from the campaigns.
The truck is grounded at Kayunga police station. Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa Region Police Spokesperson says that they impounded the truck because the NUP team was campaigning past curfew hours despite police warnings since the start of the campaigns.
However, Harriet Nakwede accuses police of impounding her sound truck to sabotage her final campaigns fearing the presence of her party principal, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.
“No military weapon or order will change people’s will,” she said. The Kayunga LC V chairperson by-elections are scheduled for Thursday this week. There is heavy deployment of the UPDF and police in various areas in the district to stop Kyagulanyi from attending Nakwede’s final campaigns.
Police have erected three security checkpoints along Mukono-Kalagi road. Each of the checkpoints is being manned by armed police and military officers. The officers are currently screening each vehicle heading to Kayunga district.
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