Police officers want Museveni kicked out at all costs
By George Murumba
20th Dec 2010
File photo, Police beat up opposition supporters
A total of 56 junior police officers from various parts of eastern Uganda have embarked on a covert but aggressive countrywide drive to mobilize their ‘long-suffering’ colleagues to turn out in their thousands and vote President Museveni out of power, Uganda Correspondent can reveal.
In an exclusive interview with Uganda Correspondent in Kapchorwa last week, the interim leader of the group, who only identified himself as “Chief Coordinator Chemonges”, said their primary focus at the moment is to bring police constables on-board their group.
“…Our main focus is on the ‘long-suffering’ constables. These colleagues of ours and their families have suffered non-stop from the very first day Museveni captured power. Twenty five years is a very long time to live like paupers while working hard for the same government”, Chemonges said.
Asked how his group hopes to win over the police constables, Chemonges said they are already holding private one-to-one discussions with constables across the country and the response they are getting has been very positive.
“…The plan is very simple. We want to engage our colleagues privately on a one-to-one basis and show them that with Museveni out of power, things can get a lot better for them under a more caring President. We are using a police policy proposal given to us by one of the opposition candidates but I will not tell you who he is”, Chemonges quipped.
When asked if his group had set itself a recruitment target, 52yr old Chemonges said that as a group, they were confident of attracting at least 5,600 police constables to their cause.
“…We have set ourselves that target figure of 5,600 because each of us is determined to establish a network through which they can recruit 100 police constables from every region of Uganda before election day”, Chemonges said.
Chemonges also accused the media of paying insufficient attention to the sad plight of what he repeated called the “long-suffering colleagues” who live terrible lives with their often young families.
Asked what they would do if their campaign failed to achieve the desired objective, Chemonges was a bit tight lipped but finally said “…we are determined to kick out Museveni at all costs”. END. Please log into www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.
