- Police in Mbarara has deployed at the home of democratic party vice president for western region, Imam Makumbi in Masha, Isingiro district to prevent him from coming to Mbarara town ahead of the planned demonstration on the removal of age limit from the constitution.
- Makumbi was slated to lead a protest in Mbarara town today ahead of the parliamentary debate on the matter in the afternoon.
- He says they wrote to police informing them of their intended demonstration, but expresses disappontment that police has put him under house arrest.
- Meanwhile, Samson Kasasira, Rwizi Regional Police Spokesperson says they have deployed to ensure there is sanity in the town. He further discloses that police has information that a group of people have moved from Kampala and Kasese to champion demonstrations in Mbarara town.
As Kenya, East Africa's arguably best economy heads for presidential polls on tuesday, I find it imperative that I try to squeeze juice out of this sacred election. I know most of you, just like me, have so many rhetorical expectations from this mighty election, but most sacredly are the questions that preoccupy our minds as to how the political show down will go in our neighbourhood. Most importantly, everyone is asking himself the question: 'What does the Harambe election mean to us as a country?. As I allow you to ponder on the connotative underpinnings of this election unto us, allow me first delve us onto the historical perspective and its alliterative explanatory shaping of Kenya's politics. In 1895, Kenya became a Protectorate under the colonial york of the British. Just like it was in Uganda and many African countries in Africa, if not all, so was it in Kenya, that the master, accruing from the cartoon number of administrators on the continent and ...
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