While addressing the media on Tuesday morning, September 19, 2023, at Zebra Spot Hotel in Kira Municipality, Jimmy Lukwago aka Kira Young, a staunch National Unity Platform (NUP) supporter and former NUP flag bearer for the 2021 Kira Municipality Member of Parliament seat, insisted that as NUP registered members and staunch supporters, they will continue to move and support their party President, Robert Kyagulanyi when he returns from Canada and resumes his Nationwide tour as he promised.

“In the last tour we moved with the party President for three weeks in every district where he went and we surely intend to continue with him when he returns,” Lukwago said.

Last week on Thursday, September 14, 2023, the Uganda Police Force issued a letter stopping the NUP party President from continuing with his country-wide tours based on inciting Violence, insulting the person of the President, and having rowdy crowds that once hit and destroyed a private vehicle while on tour in Mbarara.  This decision to halt the tours was met with mixed reactions from different political actors and NUP supporters.

According to Lukwago, if Robert Kyagulanyi committed crimes or broke any laws while on tour, then he should be summoned as an individual and not stop the activities of NUP as a party. When President Museveni committed crimes against humanity on Ugandans, he was reported as an individual and his officers reported as individuals to ICC and not the National Resistance Movement as a party.

“This National tour was for NUP as a party and not Robert Kyagulanyi as a President. So, whatever issues the Police have against Kyagulanyi, he should be summoned and he answers as an individual while the NUP party continues doing its mobilization tours as planned,” he noted.

The NUP top leadership is currently in Canada for the diaspora tour and when they return, they intend to resume their national tour with part two, where they will traverse the country again, visiting the different districts that were not visited in the first country tour.

While on his three-week countrywide tour, Robert Kyagulanyi and his top leadership visited Mbarara, Fort Portal, Kasese, Kabale, Mayuge, Busia, Mbale, Lira, Hoima, Luwero and concluded with Arua district.

As they traversed the country, the party leadership officially opened NUP district offices and also held rallies where they talked to supporters mainly about them remaining on standby and ready to remove the current regime once they get a signal.

In many districts visited, Robert Kyagulanyi emphasized the issue of rampant land grabbing and young fishermen being chased off the different lakes by soldiers who are now allegedly manning the different fishing activities on the different lakes in the country. He termed all these as impunity and total disregard for the laws governing the people of Uganda.