Nakawa Division Parishes and Polling Stations

Polling stations are sometimes reduced, increased, and changed without notice to the public.  If you notice any discrepancies or errors please contact me 0791 77 00 55 or anne@fdcuganda.org

NAKAWA DIVISION PARISHES AND POLLING STATIONS

BANDA
01 Min. of Works Compound [A-K]

02 Banda Pri School

03 Bagala's Place

04 Kimwanyi LC I Grounds

05 MIN OF WORKS COMPOUND [L - N]

06 MUGERWA'S PLACE

07 LCII OFFICES

08 NAMUWAWU'S PLACE

09 ABDALLAH'S PLACE

10 MOSQUE

11 WAKALIMLA'S PLACE [A - M]

12 KAWOYA CHANNEL [A - M]

13 MIN OF WORKS COMPOUND [O - Z]

14 WAKALIMLA'S PLACE [N - Z]

15 KAWOYA CHANNEL [N - Z]

BUGOLOBI
01 BLOCK 1 COMPOUND

02 LC II OFFICES

03 NEAR GABIRO

04 LC I OFFICE [A]

05 BUNGALOWS I

06 LC I OFFICE [B]

07 INSIDE MARKET

08 KCC OFFICES

09 SILVER SPRINGS

10 PLAN INTERNATIONAL

11 AGOA FACTORY

BUKOTO I
01 PETER PIPER NURSERY

02 LATE JUMAS PLACE

03 ALPHA

04 BEHIND NEW MARKET

05 MASALINI

06 KCC OFFICE

07 MUKALAZI'S GATE

08 MULIMIRA [A -J]

09 FORBEL PRI SCH

10 NEXT TO CHURCH

11 AIDAH'S PLACE

12 MAGULU MUTYABA'S

13 LATE SSEMWOGERERE [A - M]

14 MULIMIRA [K - M]

15 MULIMIRA [N - N]

16 MULIMIRA [O - Z]

17 LATE SSEMWOGERERE [N - Z]

BUKOTO II
01 BUKENYA'S PLACE

02 KIGOOWA PRI SCH [A - M]

03 KALINABIRI PRI SCH A [A - M]

04 KALINABIRI PRI SCH B

05 LC I MEETING PLACE [A]

06 KULAMBIRO TRADING CENTRE

07 KIGOOWA CHURCH A

08 KIGOOWA CHURCH B

09 BUKOTO MUSLIM PR SCH [A - M]

10 LC 1 MEETING PLACE [B]

11 KALINABIRI PR SCH [C]

12 BUKOTO MUSLIM PRI SCH [N - Z]

13 KIGOOWA PARISH PR SCH [N - Z]

14 KALINABIRI PR SCH A [N - Z]

BUTABIKA
01 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH A [A - M]

02 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH [B]

03 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH [C]

04 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH [D]

05 BUTABIKA HOSPITAL GROUNDS

06 TASINA HALL [A - M]

07 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH E [A - M]

08 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH A [A - M]

09 TASINA HALL [N - Z]

10 BINA CATHOLIC CHURCH E [N - Z]

KIBWA
01 KISWA HEALTH CENTER [A - M]

02 MARKET PLACE

03 KISWA PR SCH

04 COMMUNITY CENTER

05 KISWA HEALTH CENTER [N - Z]

KIWATULE (KIWANDE)
01 KIWATULE C.O.U [A-M]

02 LC I MEETING PLACE [A]

03 LC I MEETING PLACE [B]

04 KELEZIA [A-K]

05 KIWATULE C.O.U [N-Z]

06 KELEZIA [L-M]

07 KELEZIA [N-N]

08 KELEZIA [O-Z]

KYANJA
01 KULAMBIRO C.O.U [A]

02 KYANJA MUSLIM PR SCH A

03 KISAASI QURAN PR SCH

04 KULAMBIRO C.O.U [B]

05 KYANJA MUSLIM PR SCH [B]

LUZIRA
01 AGATTI'S PLACE

02 LC I MEETING AREA

03 KAMWANYI LC I

04 LAKEDRIVE POLICE DETACH

05 KIYEMBE

06 OLD KAYONZA DEPOT

07 NEW KAYONZA DEPOT

08 LAKESIDE LCI GROUNDS

09 ST. STEPHEN'S NURSERY

10 WATER QUARTERS

11 RAILWAY QUARTERS

12 CAR WASHING BAY

13 STAGE 5 POLLING STATION

14 STAGE SIX

15 UPPER BBINA

16 HAPPY HOURS NURSERY SCHOOL

LUZIRA PRISONS
01 MURCHISON BAY PR SCH

02 STAFF CANTEEN

03 INFRONT OF MURCH BAY PRISON

04 FOOTBAL PLAYGROUND

05 REMAND PRISON

06 LUZIRA PRISON OUTSIDE GUARD

MBUYA I
01 KULEMBERA MOSQUE

02 MBUYA TRADING CENTER [A-M]

03 OKUVU A

04 PARKING YARD [A-J]

05 MUJAMBULA'S PLACE [A-B]

06 MBUYA C.O.U

07 ISA'S PLACE

08 PARKING YARD [N-Z]

09 MUJAMBULA'S PLACE [C-L]

10 MUJAMBULA'S PLACE [M-N]

11 OKUVU B

12 PARKING YARD [K-M]

13 MBUYA TRADING CENTER [N-Z]

14 MUJAMBULA'S PLACE [O-O]

15 MUJAMBULA'S PLACE [P-Z]

16 UPPER MBUYA [A-A]

17 UPPER MBUYA [B=J]

18 UPPER MBUYA [K-K]

19 UPPER MBUYA [L-M]

20 UPPER MBUYA [N-O]

21 UPPER MBUYA [P-Z]

MBUYA II
01 STONE QUARRY

02 MUWALIMU'S PLACE

03 MASERUKA'S PLACE

04 MILO 4 TRADING CENTER

05 KASIMASIMA'S PLACE

06 LC MEETING GROUND

07 KITAWULUZI

08 NAKASERO SOAP WORKS

MUTUNGO 01
KATAKA GROUND [A-M]

02 KIDUKA [A-A]

03 KIDUKA [L-M]

04 KIBIRA BAR [A-M]

05 LC MEETING PLACE [A]

06 KITINTALE POLICE POST [A-M]

07 MARKET PLACE

08 NURSERY SCHOOL

09 CARWASHING BAY [A-L]

10 CHAIRMAN GALABUZI'S PLACE [A-A]

11 MARGARET GRANT SCH [A-J]

12 DDUNGU QUARTERS

13 KATAKA GROUND [N-Z]

14 KIDUKA [NA - NAL]

15 KIDUKA [O-R]

16 KIBIRA BAR [N-Z]

17 LC MEETING PLACE B [A-M]

18 KITINTALE POLICE POST [N-Z]

19 CAR WASHING BAY [M-Z]

20 MARGARET GRANT SCHOOL [K-M]

21 MARGARET GRANT SCHOOL [N-N]

22 CHAIRMAN GALABUZI'S PLACE [N-N]

23 LC MEETING PLACE [N-Z]

24 KIDUKA [K]

25 MARGARET GRANT SCHOOL [O-Z]

26 KIDUKA [B-J]

27 KIDUKA [S-Z]

28 KIDUKA [NAM-NZ]

NAGURU I
01. BEHIND K.C.C OFFICES

02 IN FRONT OF K.C.C OFFICES

03 KCC OFFICE [A-M]

04 NAGURU COMM CENTER

05 NAGURU INFANT PR SCH

06 KCC OFFICES [N-Z]

NAGURU II
01 LC I MEETING PLACE

02 BROWN FLATS COMPOUND

03 NAGURU KATALE PR SCH

04 C.O.U GROUNDS

05 EADB COMPOUND

06 KIBOKO'S PLACE A

07 KIBOKO'S PLACE B

08 MARKET PLACE [A]

09 NAGURU KCC OFFICE

10 SHELL GROUNDS [A-A]

11 KCC OFFICE

12 KIWALIMU MOSQUE

13 SHELL GROUNDS [B-L]

14 BETTY'S PLACE

15 MARKET PLACE [B]

16 FULL GOSPEL CHURCH

17 REGIONAL COOP FLATS CPD

18 SHELL GROUNDS [M-N]

19 NAGURU KATALE PR SCH [N-Z]

20 SHELL GROUNDS [O-Z]

NAKAWA
01 MWANDA'S PLACE

02 KCC OFFICES

03 NAKAWA PS HOUSE/KIYEMBE Z/R

04 PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

05 NSIMBE KASI

06 SENTAMU'S PLACE

07 NAKAWA PS HOUSE/KIYEMBE Z/R

NAKAWA INSTITUTION
01 STAFF QUARTERS

02 MUBS CAMPUS 602

NTINDA
01 NTINDA POST OFFICE

02 INFORMATION FLATS [A-L]

03 SCHOOL OF THE DEAF

04 NTINDA NEW MARKET

05 TODLERS CENTRE

06 INFORMATION FLATS [M-Z]

KYAMBOGO
01 WORKS TRAINING CENTRE

02 WATERFORD NURSERY SCH

ITEK
01 ITEK DINING HALL [A-L]

02 ITEK DINING HALL [M-Z]

NABISUNSA
01 NATIONAL CURR. DEV. CENTER

UPK
01 UPK - A MAIN HALL

02 UPK - CIVIL ENGINEERING [A-M]

03 UPK - CIVIL ENGINEERING [N-Z]

UPPER ESTATE
01 ITEK MAIN HALL

02 KYAMBOGO PR SCHOOL

Anne Mugisha
Candidate, Nakawa Constituency

The Task Ahead

Let me share with you some information about political participation in the leadership of Forum for Democratic Change, Nakawa Division.  The Division has 23 parishes and 215 polling stations.

On August 28th, 2010, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) plans to elect a Polling Area Branch [PAB] Committee at all 215 polling stations.  The PAB is the party's grasroots organization and is composed of all party members in the polling area.  It is responsible for electing 21 committee members representing various interests including secretaries for women, youth, persons with disabilities, health, education, mobilization and so on.  The PAB committees form the Party Parish Conference which is then responsible for electing a Parish Executive Committee.  I will be standing for the position of Chairperson at my PAB in Bugolobi as a first step towards contesting for party flag bearer for Member of Parliament, Nakawa Constituency.

On September 4th, 2010, the Nakawa division conference which will includes all parish party branch committee members and the existing division executive will elect the Division Executive Committee. 

On September 5th 2010, the chairpersons of these 215 Polling Area Branches, the Parish Executive Committee and Division Executive Committee will elect the FDC party flag bearer for MP, Nakawa Constituency and I will be contesting.

Our first task for mobilization therefore is to ensure that the public is aware of the leadership opportunities in FDC.  Voters should know the critical date of the first elections at th PAB which is August 28th 2010, and plan to attend and stand for positions of leadership.  We are interested in using this opportunity to invite and mobilize all Ugandan voters resident in Nakawa Division, particularly the women and youth to take up positions of leadership in FDC. 

In order to participate as leaders voters must be card-holding members of FDC.  Cards cost only 1000/= and they are available at party headquarters on Entebbe Road.  If anyone has any difficulty accessing party headquarters, please call me on 0791 77 00 55 next week or email me anne@fdcuganda.org now and I will make sure that you have a card and are ready to participate in the leadership of FDC.

If you are interested in being part of the electoral college that will elect me as flagbearer of FDC for MP, Nakawa Constituency, then you must aim to be the chairperson of your PAB or a member of your Parish Executive Committee.

Mark the date, August 28, 2010 and listen for announcements of the venue and time for elections for your Polling Area Branch.

In my next communication I will post the list of parishes and polling stations where you can participate in the leadership of the Forum for Democractic Change.

Anne Mugisha
FDC Candidate, Nakawa Constituency

In the Name of God, Go!

Oliver Cromwell

When I discovered that I had a 10 hour layover in Amsterdam on my way to Washington, DC last month, I made two great discoveries. One was the Yotel Hotel in Schiphol Airport, which I could access without leaving the terminal and going through another security check. It is a curious little airport hotel designed using amazing technologies to make the most out of the tinniest spaces. Even more exciting was my second discovery, a book entitled ‘Speeches that Changed the World’ with an introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore. It starts off with the Sermon on the Mount by none other than Jesus Christ of Nazareth, followed by verses from the Surah al-Baqarah (Qu’ran) by Prophet Mohammed and then it quickly comes down to earth with heroes and villains like George Washington, Napoloen Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King and even present day Barack Obama.

As soon as I started reading it I knew I would be quoting from it for a long time and my only difficulty was choosing whom to quote first and who would make the most sense in present day Uganda. It was not an easy decision especially since I had to choose between God and man, great men and evil men.

Oliver Cromwell ‘Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland,’ would not be my ideal choice of a leader but the relevance of his speech to an infamous British Parliament on April 20, 1653 was too good to pass. Cromwell had at this time played a leading role in abolishing the House of Lords, abolishing monarchism and executing King Charles I of England.

Legend says that in 1653, after learning that Parliament was attempting to stay in session despite an agreement to dissolve, and having failed to come up with a working constitution, Cromwell attended Parliament on 20 April and after listening to one or two speeches his patience run out. He then stood up and harangued the members. The last sentence of that speech is quoted widely: “In the name of God, Go!” In Uganda we would like to read it to our executive and a significant chunk of the August House:

“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do; I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! Go! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!”

Now you understand why I started with Cromwell’s speech.

anne@fdcuganda.org

ANNE MUGISHA FOR NAKAWA CONSTITUENCY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


Contact: Anne Mugisha,                            Party: Forum for Democratic Change

Telephone Number: 0791-770055           Email Address: anne@fdcuganda.org 

Web site address: www.fdcuganda.org

ANNE MUGISHA FOR NAKAWA CONSTITUENCY

Naguru, Kampala, July 28, 2010 — Today I have chosen to announce my decision to contest for the seat of Member of Parliament, Nakawa Constituency in order to give the people of Nakawa a real choice during the 2011 elections and to give its residents a real voice in national politics.

I have chosen to make the announcement in Naguru because this community embodies the challenges that are faced by constituents of Nakawa Constituency and greater Kampala. The community is dealing with the challenges of a rapidly expanding urban center that creates both opportunities and difficulties for those living in or close to a metropolitan area.

Some of these challenges are known to the public because of the controversy that they have stirred. Residents of the Naguru – Nakawa Estates are living under fear of eviction from their homes. The Estates are home to public servants who have lived for two generations and some refugees who fled two decades of war in the northern and eastern parts of the country. They are now being told to cede their rights to a foreign investor without specific assurances of continuity of their residence, temporary relocation or full compensation. The people living in the Estates have a proposal to redevelop their Estate into a modern residential facility but it has been rejected in favor of a foreign investor and they want to know why, especially since residents of Bugolobi flats, Bukoto flats in Nakawa as well as other areas like Kololo and Nakasero were given right of first refusal when these properties were privatized

About a year ago Naguru Health Center a public facility that provided maternal health care and HIV/AIDS counseling among other things to residents was demolished. The Clinic provided services for people who came from as far as Mukono, Bweyogerere, Kireka and Ntinda and today the services have been transferred to clinic that serves patients under a tent in Kiswa. Women are giving birth by the roadside on their way to Mulago and in they have shared information that their former Health Center is now being developed for private use.

Last night we received news that the National Environment Management Authority is planning to evict commercial and residential developments in the wetlands down the road between Naguru and Ntinda. The opportunities of an expanding city must be balanced with the aesthetic beauty of its green areas but more importantly city developers must preserve the benefits of wetlands which include slowing floodwaters, protect uplands from erosion, increasing water quality, providing a setting for recreation and study, support a diversity of wildlife across the landscape, moderate local climate, recharging groundwater and producing products used by humans like fish.

The public schools that serve the people of this area like Nakawa Katale, St. Jude, Kalinabiri, Kiswa and Kyambogo are the same schools that served students of my generation. In the meantime the population has increased and increased class sizes without a corresponding increase in public schools.

Now, this area is currently represented by a Deputy Attorney General and am sure he has tried his best in the last 10 years to address these problems but residents of Nakawa believe that he has not used his clout in Cabinet to bring positive change to Nakawa and to address their problems. That is why I say I am offering the people a real choice and a determined voice to make sure that their issues are addressed in the most partial way.

I will begin visiting the 23 parishes of Nakawa next month to ensure that I fully understand their concerns and that I listen to their own proposals for solutions of their issues as constituents and as citizens of Uganda. This is a very cosmopolitan area where you will find every Ugandan nationality or tribe residing and I have a strong affiliation to Nakawa which was my first home in Kampala District 38 years ago. I have been away for 9 years and I realize that I have to concentrate on reacquainting myself with the communities and people of Nakawa. I believe that my experiences living abroad in cosmopolitan/metropolitan cities will be very useful to the people of Nakawa. I know that my experience in Ugandan national politics over the last 10 years will certainly be beneficial in providing a loud voice for the people of Nakawa. I am a very determined individual who does not give up on a path that I have chosen.

I have been well prepared for this task and I will end by quoting a Bible verse that explains where I am today in my journey of political growth:

1 Corinthians 13:11-12

11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[a] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

We shall never forget 7/11 - the day Al-Shaabab Struck Uganda

Yesterday, July 14, 2010 I joined the leaders of the Inter Party Cooperation to visit victims of the 7/11 bomb blast in Ward 2A Mulago hospital, Kampala. The press had been tipped off so there was a frenzy of activity with photo journalists running to and fro trying to find the best spot to capture the day’s images. The presence of the press created a bonanza atmosphere yesterday at Mulago Hospital where I had expected a somber mood. Journalists scrambled with politicians and their entourage to get the best photo opportunity.


For a moment I was taken aback by what I considered bad taste considering the purpose of our mission: To commiserate with those who were in needless pain because of a senseless incident. These mostly young, soccer fans had gone out to have fun and they were now considered the lucky ones to be in hospital with broken limbs, while their friends were killed in a vicious senseless attack by the cruel al-Shabaab (The Youth).

My concern about the fracas we were causing on the ward melted away when I came face to face with al-Shabaab’s victims. I was transfixed in the moment and could not move away from two young women, with beautiful facial features on one side and mangled features on the other.

I pulled away from the crowd, dropped the political hat and let my human one take over. We had not even reached the ward. Obviously it was filled to capacity and there were about six individuals in the waiting area, a corridor outside the ward; which was now fitted with beds. There were no curtains to separate the patients, no privacy at all. I moved closer to the two young ladies, observing the tortured looks and their ghastly wounds. The first one had half her head shaved and there were fresh stitches running down the length of her scalp. There were more stitches on her right cheek and on her chin. Her eyes were swollen in a way that I had never seen before and the skin around the eyes was red and black. I was sure that she was a fair skinned beauty the day before 7/11. Now I had to get close to her to imagine just how pretty she must have been.

I thought she was sleeping but she stirred and opened her hurting eyes, looked right in mine and greeted me. I asked her name, she told me and I promptly forgot it. I felt like an intruder on her pain. Then without prompting she started telling me her story. She must have repeated it many times already because she told it absent mindedly. She said she was not one to go to such events but she was escorting a friend. I listened but did not hear everything, at some point I started to cry. She was 22 she said, had finished studying and had a shop in Banda. She rambled on, saying her father always made sure his children had a business when they completed school. What a wise father I thought, but my thoughts were only half there. I turned away to hide my tears. Then I moved on to the next girl, who told me her story too. Viola, this time I remembered her name and I will always remember her pain and her disfigured face.

I was angry and am still angry with the bombing of 7/11. I have read many opinions from all sides of the political spectrum. There are those who say that we shall crush them and how I wish we could. In Northern Uganda we learnt that brute force does not always ‘crush’ terrorists and that they remain alive long enough to spread their terror and paralyze communities. If we could not crush the ones on home territory where the army resides and has the advantages of local terrain and community support, how will we crush terrorists that live on their own terrain and have their community’s support?

With al-Shabaab we have a new kind of terrorist working on Ugandan soil. The type that does not care to live to see the destruction they left behind, one that does not care about a reward in this life because they have been promised a harem of virgins in the next life and material wealth for those they leave behind. This terrorist does not care for those who will ‘crush them’ because such hard words are spoken after the suicide bomber has already crushed themselves.

Now is a time for grieving but it is also the time to say this: We were wrong on Somalia and we are wrong to react in the traditional way to a new and unconventional problem. This is not a time to blame nor is it a time to seek political justification with hindsight.

It is a time to correct our mistakes.

Anne Mugisha
anne@fdcuganda.org

What do I want to do for Nakawa as a legislator if I decide to run?

At all the meetings, conversations that I have attended (Ekiganiiro, Ssuubi, etc...) we have discussed issues that impact the electorate but obviously these issues do not sell papers or interest journalists as a story line.  For those who are asking why I have not yet come up with a laundry list of the things I want to clean up as an MP, I want you to know that I take a different approach to leadership. I do not 'tell' people what am going to do for them. Rather I ask them what they would like a legislator to do for them. The issues and solutions come from the people themselves.


Now ofcourse, I do stand for certain ideals that are outlined in FDC's draft and past manifestos. High up on my list are:
- Women's rights (land, succession, equal access to opportunity and emancipation, particularly political participation.)

- Political accountability - whereby voters hold leaders accountable to their campaign promises,

- Good governance which includes upholding constitutional rights and obligations, fighting corruption and abuse of office, separating the state from the ruling party, separating and promoting mutual respect among the three arms of government (executive, legislature and judiciary).

These causes, for which I have struggled the last 10 years; inform my thinking on legislating and appropriating public funds for national development. My understanding of 'taking power to the people' for example, is not creating smaller districts that are run by appointees of the central government. I would advocate for federating at regional/cultural level in larger units so as to benefit from economies of scale in administration; and also to benefit from taking governance and control of a significant amount of resources to the local level, thereby empowering these federated entities to make decisions and implement policies and programs based on their local priorities.

I have strong views on managing the population explosion which I believe is the result of a sinister population policy and neglect by the current government. I cannot address urban poverty without addressing the issue of birth control.

I am concerned by the neglect of urban infrastructure and services which makes our city look like one large slum, and am concerned by the appaling neglect of health and basic sanitary services to the highly congested 'real' slum areas.

I have questions about the application of the condominium law which enabled some residents in Nakawa Division (Bugolobi) to get ownership of their apartment units while residents of Naguru were left to fight off investors without being given the opportunity to buy their units.

As I learn more about the issues facing different constituents of Nakawa division, and after I have decided to run; I will develop a manifesto that addresses our common and diverse concerns as a constituency, one that is in sync with the overall goals of FDC and with my vision as a leader.

Consulting: Anne for MP, Nakawa Division, Kampala District

One of the most parochial views in my Inbox this morning is that I should run in some place in Ankole which is my home. This could be the turning point for me! I needed an abbusrdity like that to make me run in Nakawa whether I win or lose (and I shall win!) So this parochial view is that Nakawa does not need another 'Ruhinidi?' Why would Buganda want to isolate itself from non-Baganda supporters of its cause? And I have been a staunch supporter of Buganda through the years which is more than I can say for many Baganda MPs today!

I have spent most of my life in Kampala/Buganda (1972 - 2001) and I have studied in some of the countries best educational institutions in Buganda: Kitante, Gayaza, Makerere. My family moved to Kampala from Mbarara in 1972 when I was 6.5 years old and I have never moved back. My parents moved back to Mbarara only 2 years ago! I started my work life in Kampala, Buganda and I have never servered my relationship with Buganda. Our first place of abode in Kampala in '72 was Bugolobi Flats. I am currently establishing residence in Bugolobi Bungalows...but why should I even labor the point? I am a Ugandan citizen with a right to stand in any Ugandan constituency as long as I meet the qualifications and requirements of the electoral law.
Incidentally, I have been invited by FDC and non-FDC supporters and leaders to run in Kibingo (a new district in former Bushenyi,) Mbarara municipality, and Mbarara women's seat. I have zeroed in on Nakawa because I feel a stronger affinity to residents of that community, because of my historical links to the city and because I understand issues of urban poverty, the threats of an expanding and unplanned city and because my heart beats to the rhythm of Kampala.

I joined politics in 2000 because some people threatened me, dared me, and challenged me; thinking I was unequal to the task. I like a challenge and if this was 2000 I would perhaps have declared my candidacy at this juncture. But am older and wiser and I want to look at some facts and figures before declaring my intention conclusively.

Buganda parochialism will isolate the Baganda unless (or until) Buganda embraces Ugandans, particularly those who understand and support their cause within a united Uganda.

One Uganda, One People!