By Mulengera Reporters
Former Museveni diehard supporter Rev Peter Bakaluba Mukasa has addressed a crowd of cheerful mourners disclosing why he left NRM whose days he says are numbered. Bakaluba yesterday Tuesday told a crowd, that kept chanting People Power slogans, that he left NRM largely because of Police brutality which has lately seen security forces clobber opposition leaders like snakes. He said poverty the NRM has caused to the people of Uganda is the other reason he left. He predicted many more heavyweights would soon leave and denounce President Museveni because of Police brutality.
Bakaluba, who voters have fronted as the People Power candidate for Mukono LC5 seat, says he regrets the years he spent in NRM and used the Goma funeral to call upon opposition supporters to fotget the past and work for a better Uganda. “It’s not going to be easy but let’s be firm because change is coming. There is no way these people are going to survive this political wave of a united opposition. It is going to sweep them off. All we need to do is to forget our petty differences and overcome this problem in our country once and for all. This is time for unity. Let’s forget the past and look at the future. Uganda is bigger than all of us. That’s why we are now closely working with great leaders of Mukono like Hon Betty Nambooze so that we deliver our district to the change camp,” Bakaluba preached as the crowd chorused “Tuliyambala engule.” As he spoke, the incumbent Mukono district chairman Andrew Senyonga of the NRM (who is said to be under extreme voter pressure to quit NRM) uneasily turned in his chair as other area influential leaders like Nambooze excitedly looked on. Bakaluba, who delivered a message from the People Power boss Bobi Wine, vowed to unleash all his energy and resources to make sure NRM is totally obliterated from Mukono district. “They are going to do many things to us but in the end we are going to prevail especially if we remain united and operate as one strong force. We are going to overwhelm them,” said Bakaluba one of the richest natives in Mukono district.
