Police foil demo against Amongi
LIRA. Police deployed heavily in Lira Town last Friday to avert a demonstration by National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters who are protesting the appointment of three opposition members to Cabinet.
The deployment followed intelligence reports that a section of NRM youth from Lango sub-region had planned a demonstration against the appointment of Oyam South MP, Ms Betty Amongi (UPC), as minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development.
Ms Amongi was appointed together with the former Kole MP, Ms Ruth Aceng, who was named state minister for Fisheries and DP’s Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, who was appointed state minister for Youth and Child Affairs.
Ms Amongi and Ms Aceng belong to the UPC faction led by Lira Municipality MP Jimmy Akena, the son of UPC founding president Dr Milton Obote.
