Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:41
Bishop Zac Niringiye says Ugandans should tell God the truth about Museveni
“If you want to know how costly the use
of guns is, then visit Luweero, northern Uganda and Teso regions where
thousands of skulls are lying open,” Besigye said at Tororo Youth
Centre.
“We used guns to come to power in 1986
with a vision of ushering in democratic change but up to date, we are
still fighting to attain democracy,” he said.
“I must remind Gen [Mugisha] Muntu [FDC
president] that we struggled in the bush war to bring to Ugandans a
dictator and there is no one going to solve that unless I and Muntu
fight to restore order amidst dictators we brought.”
Besigye said most Ugandans wanted guns
to oust President Museveni. But he insisted that civilians had more
power than the army. Citing the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings, he said all
people needed was to unite and fight to achieve the common goal of
democracy.
DP President Norbert Mao said Ugandans
should not expect an angel from heaven to come and liberate them from
the shackles of President Museveni’s regime.
“Not even the world’s giants like [US
President] Barack Obama, [UN leader] Ban Ki-moon and [UK Prime Minister]
David Cameron will save Ugandans because they are more interested in
homosexuality than human freedoms,” Mao said.
While blessing the launch, Bishop Eric
Okoth said the NRM regime had shown it was incapable of organizing free
and fair elections. The bishop noted that there was nothing new the NRM
regime could offer to Ugandans apart from rigging elections to stay in
power.
Together: opposition politicians standing hand-in-hand to show solidarity
The retired assistant bishop of Kampala,
Zac Niringiye, asked all Christians and Muslims to pray for the
president in a truthful and realistic way.
