Addressing a congregation of the youths in Kyengera on Kampala Masaka road today, Kayihura said many opposition leaders misinform people making them to believe that the country is in an economic crisis.

Kayihura said this at a time when the members of A4C were addressing a counter assembly in Kyengera trading centre onKampala–Masaka road. However a vigilante youth and a member of A4C challenged Kayihura when he asked him the following questions.

Mr. Kayihura does the opposition lie us when they say that there is high commodity prices? Do they lie us when they tell us that the economy is almost in the limbo?

 The youth told Kayihura that when he was a young boy his parents used to get agricultural loans and educating the child was an issue of the central government. But these days’ banks advertise school fees loan. Won’t the banks next time advertise food loan? And the next day advertise ‘walking or talking loan?’ Kayihura answered none of these questions.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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Security is tight onKampala–Masaka road following an anti government rally organised by members of the ‘Action for Change” in Kyengera.

The inspector general of police, Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura has confirmed the deployment and said it is there for the good of all Ugandans.

When our informers made the tour of the road, they saw hundreds of policemen and a few military men camped from Nateete trading centre in Lubaga division to Kyengera. There are reports that a few arrests of opposition leaders have been made by the police.

The president of Forum for Democratic Change Col. Kiiza Besigye has however blamed police for the deployment and arrests. He says that the deployment and the arrests are made to intimidate opposition supporters.

Besigye warned the police against being used by the state and the president in particular to abuse human rights. The police inUgandahave been accused of harassing and killing civilians during opposition protests.

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