Masaka city woman MP and outspoken National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobiliser Justine Nameere has said she will not join her party’s campaign efforts in the Kalangala District Woman MP by-election, citing sympathy for the family of the late Hellen Nakimuli.
President Yoweri Museveni, the NRM chairman, is expected in Kalangala on Monday, June 22, to campaign for Nabayiga. Senior party officials led by Deputy Secretary General Rose Namayanja have already pitched camp on the island to canvass support for the NRM candidate.
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However, Nameere said she could not bring herself to campaign against Nakimuli’s family.
“My mother died when I was young. Every time I see a mother who dies and leaves children behind, that’s a technical knockout,” she said.
“I do not think I have the energy and courage to stand in Kalangala and point a gun barrel at the family of Hellen Nakimuli and the candidate they have fronted to replace her.”
“I thought of boarding the ferry that transported the body of Nakimuli to go and point a gun barrel at the family of Hellen and its candidate and failed. I ask you friends for forgiveness on the issue of Nakimuli. I have a very soft spot for a woman who dies and leaves behind a young child. That puts me in a different corner that I cannot explain,” she said.
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