By Aggrey Baba
During a recent engagement on Bukedde TV’s Akabinkano program, Wakiso District woman MP aspirant Joan Nabatanzi explained the origin of the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF), a political party born from a disagreement within the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
Nabatanzi, the PFF flagbearer explained that the Katonga Road party emerged after misunderstandings within FDC under Amuriat Oboi’s leadership, when certain members, including presidential candidate Nandala Mafabi, allegedly smuggled hundreds of millions of money (UGX), believed to be from the state (Museveni), prompting a Besigye-led faction to chart a new course and register a separate political entity.
Nabatanzi said that during country-wide consultations led by party leaders, including Dr. Kizza Besigye, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, among others, the idea for the party’s name came from an unlikely Kampala boda-boda rider, whose suggestion to call the party the People’s Front for Freedom was taken seriously, symbolizing the blue and white party commitment to listening to voices from the ground.
The name, according to Nabatanzi, became a compass, guiding their political direction toward citizen-centered governance.
Also present during the show was 20-year-old Jorine Najjemba, who had once attempted to run for the presidency, even picking nomination forms, but later made a U-turn and became the FDC flagbearer in Wakiso. She criticized the government, saying that much as a new education curriculum (hands-on) was intronduced, the government, through the ministry of education has not done enough to facilitate its implementation.
The young eloquent politician added that most government schoold lack necessary equipment like computers, among others, leaving the new carriculum to weather, describing it as a ship without sails.
Independent candidate Nalongo Rose Kilabira, a former RDC of Wakiso District, assessed the performance of former MP Rosemary Sseninde positively but emphasized that the district currently requires leadership that fully understands local challenges, highlighting her own experience as RDC as a stabilizing steeringwheel.
When asked about the incumbent NUP MP Ethel Naluyima, Kilabira described it as unprofessional to critique a fellow candidate in their absence. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
