In the run-up to the 2021 polls, a shift of political loyalties is becoming a new order in the political arena.
Over 200 youth mobilizers of the National Unity Platform (NUP) in Kampala converged at Nakasero Primary School and announced their defection to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
“We are not here as hooligans but we are ready to serve the NRM,” the group leader Frank Ssenyonjo said.
Ssenyonjo who said he was a lead mobiliser of People Power/NUP in Wakiseka explained; “We have served several opposition groups including the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the Democratic Party (DP) and People Power, but they have done nothing for us.”
He informed the Senior Presidential Advisor on NRM Archives’, Alice Kaboyo, who received them that their grievance with the government has been the very many youths who are unemployed.
“We have no jobs and the capital to start up own income-generating projects,” Ssenyonjo said as he appealed for government support.
Kaboyo said; “I’m happy to meet you and I want to thank your leaders who came to our office and requested us to meet you.”
“The NRM has nurtured you well; you did not suffer serious diseases such as polio because of immunization programmes by the government. Even with jobs, we shall improvise for you to work,” she added.