Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) candidate Ingrid Kamateneti Turinawe on Tuesday again attacked NRM Members of Parliament ahead of the election.
For her bid to be successful, Turinawe will have to scoop one of the two slots reserved for the opposition parties.
Ms. Turinawe struggled to present her manifesto as NRM MPs booed her presence singing “twamuganye omwana yeyisa bubbi” loosely translated as “We have rejected her; she has bad manners.”
The MPs further protested against Ingrid Turinawe. Their placards read; No pigs here, no vote!
Ingrid said, “When I stand for a cause no one can bring me down. I stand for a cause for my country. Nobody can stop me. I came here expecting what you are doing. A pig is a pig”
“Hon. Members, At the end of this all, I’m the winner, I have managed to expose you.”
VOTING: Each Member of Parliament will be expected to tick their favourite nine candidates on the ballot paper. Short of this, the ballot paper will be declared invalid. The clerk to parliament shall be the returning officer.
From the onset, it was evident Ms Turinawe was headed for a stiff challenge.
The FDC secretary for mobilization is an outspoken political activist and one of President Museveni’s biggest critics. At the same time, she has alienated some of her party members who see her as the leading proponent of the Dr Kizza Besigye-led defiance campaign. Many of these FDC members believe the campaign is intended to undermine Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, the party president who last week even tried to pull her out of the Eala race but failed.
Today’s challenge against Ingrid was a reminisce of last Tuesday when NRM MPs Hanifa Kawooya (Sembabule Woman) Alex Byarugaba (Isingiro South) and James Kakooza (Kabula) openly confronted Turinawe at the parliament canteen, where she had gone to lobby for support from amongst the MPs.
Similarly, Muhammad Nsereko, the Kampala Central MP, has been openly urging fellow MPs not to elect Turinawe. Among other things, Nsereko accuses Turinawe of being behind a group of youths that dropped piglets at parliament bearing names of legislators, including his.
