Less than two months after the Lord Mayor ofKampala, Erias Lukwago appointed Kawempe Male councilor, Sulaiman Kidandala as his deputy; problems have sparked off for councilor Bernard Luyiga fromMakerereUniversity.

The students say that on Wednesday this week when Lukwago was addressing a meeting of councilors, Bernard Luyiga’s body guard attempted to sassinate Lukwago.

 It should also be remembered that Luyiga recently signed a memorandum of Understanding with NRM councilors to support him to become the Deputy mayor.

 The students say that Luyiga has now officially crossed from opposition to NRM and so he should resign his post and the electoral commission organises fresh elections. The law provides that when a candidate contests for any elective political post on a particular ticket and successfully wins the polls, that person is not supposed to cross from another political camp. When that person does it, he/she ceases to hold that post and the electoral commission organises fresh polls.

However for the case of Luyiga, he says he did not close to NRM. Luyiga argues that he only asked the NRM councilors to support him to become Deputy Mayor and that the body guard had no intentions of killing the Lord Mayor as was reported in the press.

By Christine Kate