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Leaders of the Progressive Alliance Party (PAP) have warned
former Director of External Security Organisation (ESO), Mr
David Pulkol, against spying on their party.
Pulkol who switched to PAP, which is linked to detained Brig.
Henry Tumukunde from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change
(FDC) has already been appointed acting Director of Elections
and Strategy.
“Pulkol should not spy on PAP because he won’t
succeed unless he spies on himself. We’re only anxious
to see the positive outcome of his good brains,” said
Banald Kibirige, PAP’s Sectary General.
Kibirige made the remarks while addressing the weekly Uganda
Journalists Association press conference on Thursday.
Pulkol formerly in the Movement first defected to FDC before
briefly shifting to Al-hajji Nasser Sebaggala’s militant
Youth Brigade. He on Monday told Daily Monitor that he is
now settled in PAP.
Big fish
Kibirige said although Pulkol, just like Tumukunde is one
of their big fish hooked in PAP, they have no individual who
is bigger than their party. He disputed comments attributed
to FDC's spokesman Wafula Oguttu that Pulkol had joined
PAP to take the latter's supporters to FDC.
;Many more have quietly joined us but fear to go public
because of what is happening to Tumukunde. Because the Brigadier
is still a serving senior military officer, he still remains
our sympathiser until he retires; said Mr Turker Ngobi
Mugogo, the party's Publicity Secretary said.
Mugogo said PAP founded in 2003 and registered earlier this
year would be holding its Delegates Conference of 300 members
in November where it will field its own presidential candidate.
;Our major task is to change the voting pattern in this
county and to avoid remaining on the opposition otherwise
we would have formed an NGO. We can’t join G6 parties
some of whom got zero percent votes. Our objective is to deny
President Museveni a 51 percent and force a re-run;
Mugogo said.
Kibirige said that they have no hope of either joining any
of the G12 parties because they consider many of them apologetic
parties of Museveni; some of which are led by serving
army officers and veterans;.
Mugogo who was Museveni's contact Busoga during the
2001 presidential elections said he fell away with the system
because of the president’s third term agitation.
He said in their undergrounds recruitment, PAP received a
good reception in Movement dominated areas like Busoga, Mbale
and Masaka.
Most Basoga have realized that bonna bagagawale’s
where some youth have been conned of their money on a promise
of motor cycles at a hire purchase of Shs 2.4 million each,
those in the president's areas like Ruharo Constituecy
are given Shs 2 billion,; said Mugogo.
To a man who has no lunch and super, how do you tell
him to grow mangoes, which take three years to mature? Whereas
Masaka an Agriculture district currently has no viable cash
crop, you can hardly find an acre of coronal coffee in Mbale,;
Mugogo added.
Kibirige and Mugogo represented PAP Chairman, Dr. Kaddu Makubuya
who was admitted at Mulago hospital suffering from pressure.
Kibirige said Makubuya, a Consultant at the same hospital
is admitted in Ward 1 and is on Oxgyen. Makubuya lived in
German for 24 years before coming back in Uganda seven years
ago.