Museveni Receives Go Forward Executive
4 NEW VISION, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 ELECTION 2016 68 Mbabazi security men defect to NRM By Eddie Ssejjoba were formerly working as private security guards Sixty-eight musclemen and in Iraq, Afghanistan and women, claiming to belong Somalia, while others are to independent presidential veteran soldiers. candidate Amama Mbabazi’s The Team Thorough private security detail have spokesman, Godfrey Kimera defected to the National Babi, said the group would be Resistance Movement (NRM) stationed in Kampala to boost camp. the party’s security during the Composed of nine women, days left to the polling day. the group, which claimed He said for some time, they to have participated in the had been persuading the clashes with NRM supporters men, contacting them one in Ntungamo district on by one, to leave the Mbabazi December 12 last year, team and they had studied yesterday evening showed their behaviour since they up at the Team Thorough renounced their membership NRM party offices on Luthuli of Go Forward. Avenue in Kampala, wearing Ssebyala, however, said they T-shirts with the inscriptions have not heard from their of Go Forward, Mbabazi’s leader, Christopher Aine, Leaders of Go Forward from Sebei region in eastern Uganda, who defected to NRM, being introduced to political pressure group. since the Ntungamo clashes. supporters of candidate Yoweri Museveni during a rally in Kassanda, Mubende district on Sunday. PPU photo Team Thorough is a group Ntungamo was the scene of mostly youthful NRM of ugly clashes between mobilisers. supporters of the NRM and One of the bodyguards’ Go Forward on December leaders, Peter Okello, read a 12, after which Aine’s name statement before journalists, featured prominently as one stating that they had come out of the perpetrators of the Museveni receives boldly to inform the public violence.
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