The National Unity Platform (NUP) Party President, Robert Kyagulanyi, has declared that the party will resume its countrywide tour on Friday May 24, 202, with a visit to Pallisa.
While addressing the Media at the party headquarters in Makerere Kavule on May, 23, 2024, Kyagulanyi said that the NUP team will continue with the tour in accordance with their program despite being stopped by the police from accessing Kamuli district on Wednesday, May 22,2024, amidst teargas.
“Today afternoon we are going to petition the Inspector General of Police and protest the way the police handled the team and our supporters on our way to Kamuli yesterday. I can also confirm that we shall proceed to Pallisa on Friday, May 24, 2024, as scheduled on our Nationwide tour program,” Kyagulanyi said.
He also cautioned his supporters against being violent and asked them to remain peaceful and non-violent throughout the nationwide tour.
“I continue to encourage you to be moral and non-violent and I can tell you that non-violence will win those with violence,” Kyagulanyi added.
While addressing the press on May 21, 2024, the Uganda Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said that the NUP was suspended from carrying out mobilization campaigns because during their last countrywide tour in 2023, there was disruption of traffic, accidents leading to loss of lives and loss of business, the reason why the police had suspended such tours until the NUP leadership complies with the stated police guidelines and continues to be law abiding.
Enanga added that NUP had not shared with them their movement schedules, and as a result, the police had not been informed about their nationwide tour.
The NUP party spokesperson, Joel Ssenyonyi who also doubles as the Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LOP), on May 23, 2024, went with the media team at Police headquarters in Naguru to physically deliver their petition to the IGP and also explain how their request to Police to carryout a nationwide tour was received by Police though the police had not written to them formally in response to their communication about their intentions to traverse the country.
