DANGOTE CAMPAIGN TEAM PRESS STATEMENT

Yesterday’s events and the information that keeps coming therefrom continues to sudden
this country. As a team whose goal was not just to promote sobriety but create a safe
environment at the University, we experience this with bitterness.
Throughout the campaign we have taught our supporters to be peaceful and to avoid any
environment that would result into altercations which partly explains why we have not
attended majority of rallies and places where there’s likely interaction with other camps
including and most significantly the first Rugby Grounds rally and the Makerere Main pitch
rally.
Similarly, yesterday we intended to hold processions after our event at Nkrumah grounds
and then proceed to hostels as we have always done. However, we were assured by the
electoral commission that this time round the rally would be orderly, our own students at
the Rugby grounds also informed us that there was no other camp at the venue. This
persuaded us to move to Rugby ground where the final rally was held. Consistent with our
safety strategy, it was our intention to speak and leave before other major camps arrive.
Hardly had we made our way outside the Rugby grounds when we met the FDC camp that
was determined to enter without any patience for us to first exit. This sparked a scuffle and
in the blink of an eye all students inside the grounds were being pelted with stones, police
fired bullets in the air which caused a stampede. It should be noted that all students who
had gathered at the grounds were affected and not only our supporters. We pray that all
the affected students recover soon.
As the team reorganized at our home ground at Nsibirwa hall entrance (Arua Park), it was
established that a student entering the hall was bleeding profusely. Our team immediately
summoned one of the campaign vehicles, this particular one provided by Hon. Kabuye Frank
a fresh graduate and a member of the party. The student was driven to the University
Hospital however, it was too late to save his life.

We have learnt that the team which rushed the student to the hospital has since been
arrested including Hon. Kabuye Frank and the campaign driver Kabuurwa Muzafaru a
second-year student. As opposed to finding the easier way out by arresting the people who
rendered humanitarian support, the police should release camera footage given that there’s
a camera in that particular area.
We call upon the police to take the necessary objective steps to get at the bottom of this. It
is unpalatable for institutions to seek to settle political scores in the face of such a loss.
Every Ugandan family deserves justice.
We build for the future.
MAYAMBALA DERRICK

CAMPAIGN MANAGER.