Gen Salim Saleh walked away from 28 youths claiming to be journalists demanding payment for writing Pro-Museveni stories
By Angela Nyakuni
News dropping at our desk from Gulu reveal that Gen. Salim Saleh aka Calleb Akandwanaho walked away from 28 youths claiming to be journalists demanding payment for writing Pro- Museveni stories.
Mbu the self-styled journalists travelled from Kampala and camped at Lumumba Square in 4th Division army barracks and engaged in a verbal exchange with Gen. Saleh, demanding for their fares, accommodation, feeding and payments for content produced several months ago.
The amiable Army General reportedly asked them for an invoice, thereafter left them to his IT manager (Deo) and made himself scarce. Then the army spokesman Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso was seen pleading before the stranded youth entered a haggling session with Maj Kiconco Tabaro of OWC.
By press time they had not sorted out their issues, this site does not know how it ended.
In other news, another Army General but a retired and Presidential Candidate Gen. Mugisha Muntu has tabled his issues about those who accuse him for not being aggressive.
Muntu says, “I hear people say “Gen. Muntu would have been the right person to take over leadership of the country, but he’s not aggressive enough”.
We’re not in a gun fight or a boxing ring. Do you want me to go and hold Gen. Museveni by the collar and throw him out of State House? Do you want me to speak aggressively to scare him and he runs away?”
Gen. Mugisha Muntu is the National Coordinator for the Alliance for National Transformation, Former Army Commander of the UPDF, a Freedom Fighter and a citizen of the great Republic of Uganda.
Gen. Muntu also said, ” Our team and I spoke to the press about several anomalies that we have written to and want the Electoral Commission to resolve:
1. Sending election materials to districts: There’s supposed to be a file and packing list that gives details of what is in the boxes. Only 30 districts received the materials with files.
2. Restriction of phones or cameras at polling stations. All candidates need their agents to monitor the exercise and capture scenes to ensure there is transparency. And in case there is malpractice and any party intends to go to court, those captured scenes are the evidence they would need.
3. Telling voters to all leave the polling station after voting: It should be modified to provide for social distancing and masks if the concern is the spread of COVID19, otherwise how do you allow people to be in markets, churches, restaurants etc but not at a polling station?
All matters notwithstanding, we continue to urge everyone to turn up on 14th to exercise their rights and vote for the change they want to see!