By Mulengera Reporters
Even in victory, health minister Jane Ruth Aceng, who has just been re-elected for the position of Lira city woman MP with a landslide, has maintained her grace, restraint decency and magnanimity.
She says that she is ready to work with and peacefully co-exist with political foe Betty Amongi who she politically ‘disciplined’ in the ballot box as promised, in order to keep the Lango community united and prosperous.
Aceng, who won with a margin of more than 10,000 votes and thereby sending the very quarrelsome Amongi to the political Taiwan, says that the gender minister’s defeat shows that no one can stop an idea whose time has come and which God has blessed.
That she is the one Lira residents genuinely love, which is why Amongi’s not even money, crudeness, bribery, thuggery, strange spiritual powers, vulgar and obscene words could prevail.
In a bid to get the vote, Amongi became too relaxed to the extent of allowing boda riders, street sweepers and wheelbarrow pushers in Lira city to hug and touch her ‘soft parts.’ This was her way of showing that she was a woman of the people.
Aceng says that she was verbally abused and name-called everywhere by Amongi, who even had violent squads whose members beat up and tortured her supporters; justifying the deployment of UPDF soldiers.
Aceng says that no matter how much Amongi abused and molested her, her God was ready to put her detractors to shame.
She says that unlike Amongi who trusted her money, she won through Godliness, humility and organic love for the people of Lira. She is grateful the people of Lira appreciated her track record of high performance, effective service delivery and loved her back by voting for her overwhelmingly.
She has advised Amongi to accept defeat and congratulate her so that her political wounds can heal faster and she moves on with life instead of behaving as if there can be no life outside Parliament. Amongi had been MP since 2001 when she had just left school at Makerere.
Amongi has also lately been very outspoken vowing to politically destroy speaker Anita Among who she says is the person who fermented all the political mischief against her.
She says even without the MP seat, she is going to remain politically very active to protect the interests of Lango while fending off haters like Anita Among.
Betty Amongi also claimed there is a plot to assasinate her along with her husband Jimmy Akena, in order to end UPC influence in Lango.
Amongi adds that Anita Among was the real person she was competing against and not Aceng. Amongi, who intended to run for speakership, says that Aceng was just a proxy candidate for speaker Among.
She says that Amongi deployed billions of shillings to destroy her besides ferrying 15 buses full of ghost voters from Teso. She also says that speaker Amongi sneaked in 3k soldiers to create additional votes for her ally Aceng.
She claims that the soldiers persecuted her voters to flee their homes and also participated in widespread rigging. Amongi claims that speaker Anita targeted her personally for reasons she intends to disclose at a future press conference.
By claiming that soldiers committed electoral crimes not just in Lira city but in many other constituencies in Lango to enable NRM candidates win, Betty Amongi unknowingly discredits the victory of not just Jane Ruth Aceng but Museveni’s too.
Her claims that thousands of soldiers were ferried in to steal votes for NRM candidates throughout Lango, are already being seized upon by supporters of Kyagulanyi operating online and at Kavule as evidence that Bobi Wine’s victory was stolen by members of the security forces.
Betty Amongi, who risks being expelled from cabinet by president Museveni who is disappointed over her reckless utterances, claims to have a lot of evidence from friendly insiders who took part in the alleged vote rigging scheme.
Having realized the problems how dangerous her wild claims against speaker Anita, Museveni and other NRM candidates are and can potentially be, Dr. Aceng has advised Betty Amongi to tone down as opposed to insisting on hunting what she can’t kill.
