By Mulengera Reporters
Even when NRM made fresh inroads and recaptured some few constituencies in Wakiso (Busiro South, Busiro North & Entebbe Municipality), NUP still dominated with their Betty Naluyima winning the Woman MP race, Nkunyingi Muwadda the Kyaddondo East race, David Serukenya retaining Makindye Ssabagabo, Emmanuel Magoola winning Busiro East, George Musisi winning Kira Municipality and SDA journalist Blasio Zambali Mukasa winning the Nansana Municipality race.
Voters and foot soldiers naturally expected these newly elected NUP representatives to leverage the momentum their wins generated by working in solidarity and enforcing the ingredients of the protest vote, which Kavule invested in by rallying and leading their electors in ensuring that the outgoing Wakiso district Speaker Nasif Najja, who is also a close friend of Bobi Wine and his family, got himself declared the new Wakiso district chairman.
Voters are angry that even when Najja, whose father in a diehard NRM supporter, put up a spirited physical fight insisting that he had beaten the ruling party’s candidate Engineer Ian Kyeyune with a vote difference or margin of 10,000 votes, the National Unity Platform party lost the opportunity to produce outgoing Dr. Matia Lwanga Bwanika’s successor.
Voters and foot soldiers expected Zambali and the rest of the newly elected NUP MPs from the same district to physically be present and flank Najja as he battled the heavy security that had been deployed at Wakiso district headquarters where Eng Ian Kyeyune, who previously served for 10 years (2001-2011), was controversially being declared the new Wakiso governor.
Yet ironically, none of the newly elected Wakiso MPs (some of whom social media rumours indicate have already cut a Kazibwe Bashir-like deal with the Musevenist state not to organize or participate in any political protests for the next five years) was anywhere near Wakiso district headquarters to stand with Najja yet this was the moment Bobi Wine’s very good personal friend needed them most.
Voters are wondering why Zambali and group have remained inconspicuous up to this point instead of organizing and leading protests aimed at disputing Ian Kyeyune’s victory. Some voters and foot soldiers have taken to Tik Tok to demand that Zambali and fellow newly elected NUP MPs from Wakiso demonstrate strict adherence to the protest vote spirit by calling a joint news conference and condemn what happened to Nasif Najja, while at the same time announcing dates for demonstrations aimed at protesting the circumstances under which Ian Kyeyune was declared winner over Najja whose one-man demo at the district headquarters was easily subdued and crashed by security operatives present.
A hapless Nasif Najja actually had his old trousers and ill-fitting underwears threaded to pieces as the security operatives flogged and dragged him out of the hall where the results were being proclaimed. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
