Today the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC) delivered their verdict after becoming second and losing the Kawempe North By-Election. The striking matter is that the NRM acts like its an outside force and not the government itself. As they expect the Electoral Commission to investigate and audit the election. That’s really telling, as we haven’t seen how the state operated and acting during the whole proceedings.
The NRM should sit this one out. They already used all the tricks of the book. They used the whole state machinery and was prepared to rig the election. They just waited for the thumbs up and make it happen. There was every bits and pieces in action for one purpose only. So, it is rich that the call the EC out and wants this now.
The NRM rejects the results too and also says it will legally challenge it. If it does all of this… do they want the courts to see the videos, pictures and the altered return forms? What do they want to provide of evidence? What stories doest the NRM want to tell?
Do the NRM wants the stories of the NUP activists arrested, the double arrests of the NUP candidate and use of JATT to stop the NUP from properly campaigning? Do the NRM wants the courts to look into the soldiers, special forces command and the soldiers intimidating during the polls?
What does the NRM wants to prove? That they didn’t block Pearl FM from providing proof of the rigging for the NRM. Do the NRM wants the proof of how they tried to make the Kawempe North into a war-zone and harassed the media into darkness. So, that the polling agents and others was left without media having oversight of the activity during the polls. What sort of evidence does the NRM wants to provide courts?
Nothing that happened was in favour of the opposition or the NUP. If the blood, torture, arrests, detained civilians and use of NRM or state operatives for self-serving interests. These was all parts in the play and we know about it. The state even used cars without registration plates and such too. There was nothing this state didn’t do to outsmart and outwit their own electorate. Still, they voted in defiance and in protest of state itself.
The NRM CEC don’t want this all portrayed in the courts. What is there to gain and what does the NRM win? They have already caused the pain, plights and suffering… just over a seat and a ballot. Still, they couldn’t cause enough harm and damage to stop the people from standing up for themselves. That’s just what should worry the state and the NRM itself.
If there are any characters left with some sort of clear mind in the NRM CEC. They would reflect on the matter and reasons for the fall in the Kawempe North By-Election. There are so many reasons for why they lost. There is not only the knowledge of the historical pattern of voters voting for opposition. Secondly, why would the people, trust the party who orders soldiers to streets to beat them up? Seriously, it is such an easy argument and everyone can digest that.
Nevertheless, that is just to deep and to hard for the NRM to comprehend. Maybe their delusion and lack of realism is hitting in. They are just living in their own bubble and cannot understand the real sentiment out there. That’s why they think gun-slinging on unarmed civilian is the righteous act to get their will done. This is what we are seeing and hearing. It is infuriating and insulting the people who are just trying to live life. Peace.
MinBane 