FDC presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has told the people of Kaberamaido not to give up on changing the political leadership of Uganda.
“I know there are people who have been voting for me to have the change. Since you could not have seen it in the previous elections, you may be tempted to give up. I am here to tell you that the change we want is coming and never give up”, he told a rally at Ochero sub-county headquarters in Kaberamaido on Tuesday.
This was after Besigye and his team had campaigned in Dokolo district the same day.
The Dokolo team, led by their FDC district chairperson, John Baptist Okello Okello, handed over Besigye and his team to Kaberamaido.
Besigye was received by Kaberamaido FDC chairperson Julius Peter Emigu, who is also the area parliamentary flagbearer, and his team.
The opposition leader was in company of Mugisha Muntu and Patrick Amuriat.
Whereas he was supposed to have addressed two rallies at Ochero and Kaberamaido town, he failed to make it to the second venue as he had arrived late due to poor roads. So he would carry on with that on Wednesday (today).
He is expected to address three different rallies today in Kaberamaido at Kalaki, Kaberamaido town and Otuboi before he goes to Amuria, as part of Teso.
In Ochero, he blamed the NRM government for bad roads.
“I delayed to reach here due to the bad roads of NRM”, he said, adding that they have now weakened the NRM government and it is about to collapse.
“We have been shaking it including its roots. You can see some people who have been on the tree have now started jumping off.”
Besigye said unseating his main political rival President Yoweri Museveni of the NRM “is not easy and it is not a one day’s work”, a reason that he claimed has made Museveni to stay in power for long.
But he told the rally that the time has now come to bring to end his rule.
If elected into power, the FDC politicisn said he will want to see that roads become better for people in the country. “We must stop these bad roads we are suffering from today.”
He added that in his regime, all children will have better education. Saying that particularly mothers are suffering a lot due to poor medical attention, Besigye said he will work to improve the health sector.
“We are prepared to handle all these challenges that have been created in the last twenty years. What we only need is to get the power.”
He said there is fear that there may be vote rigging based on the experience that the NRM have had in their primary elections. “If one section of NRM can rig votes of another NRM, what do you think can happen to our votes?” he mused.
He said to avert the vote rigging, they have introduced the ‘Power Ten’ (PT) system in every parish that will have a coordinator in every parish.
The PT system will ensure that nobody rigs an election and they will have a role to protect the votes.
Immediately after addressing the crowd at Ochero, Besigye and co moved to the home of the late Robert Opolot who is alleged to have been shot dead by local fisheries enforcement officers.
