NRM, DP members fight over NRM cards
Hajj Muyanja Mbabali receives some of the cards returned by NRM party members in Lwengo on Tuesday. PHOTO by Issa Aliga
LWENGO. NRM party members at Kyamakata village in Kisekka Sub-county, Lwengo District, on Tuesday fought with their Democratic Party counterparts who wanted to register and acquire NRM party cards.
The disagreement erupted after NRM members became suspicious of some 37 people believed to be DP members who turned up at the home of the village NRM chairperson, Ms Christine Ngagire where the registration of NRM members was taking place.
In the ensuing melee, some furious NRM members handed back their party cards to the officials, claiming that they cannot subscribe to a party which has been infiltrated by opposition members who are bent on tainting the image of NRM.
They claimed that all the DP members who were clamouring for NRM cards never took the oath of allegiance as required by the party.
“Those DP members have been mobilized by “enemies of NRM” to disrupt the forthcoming NRM primary elections by voting weaker candidates who can easily be defeated in the general elections,” said Mr Joseph Kintu, an NRM member in the area
But the DP members led by Ms Vincentia Nabachwa pleaded with the NRM leadership to give them party cards, insisting that they had genuinely crossed to NRM and want their names registered in the NRM yellow book.
Lwengo District NRM chairman, Hajj Muyanja Mbabaali and other top party officials intervened and calmed down angry NRM members. He also gave back 58 cards which NRM members had rejected, protesting the inclusion of DP members on the party register.
Hajj Mbabali said NRM is for all people provided they follow the party principles.
