Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nationwide Unity Platform (NUP) has launched a fundraising advertising and marketing and marketing campaign geared against elevating Shs9 billion to make stronger its activities earlier than the 2026 total elections.
Announcing the initiative on Monday on the occasion headquarters in Makerere-Kavule, NUP Secretary Basic Lewis Rubongoya talked about the funds are needed to finance a fully operational advertising and marketing and marketing campaign secretariat and make stronger the occasion’s candidates across the nation.
“We non-public to design advertising and marketing and marketing campaign provides including banners, posters, T-shirts, manifestos, billboards, flyers, and additionally to find publicity on radio and TV. Mobilization campaigns require transportation and accommodation,” Rubongoya talked about.
He added: “We must always make stronger our candidates with nomination charges—final election it became as soon as Shs3 million and that forced a lot of our candidates out of the recede. We don’t want that to happen again. Don’t neglect polling day. Final election, we had 34,000 polling stations. This time, the number has increased, and we must always facilitate polling brokers at each and every reveal. So even the Shs9 billion may perchance perchance presumably now not be enough.”
NUP Treasurer Benjamin Katana emphasised that the fundraising initiative is designed to empower all Ugandans to make a contribution to the occasion’s mission for political commerce. “We would like every Ugandan to be fragment of the lag to write down history. We don’t want a project the build handiest a pair of people claim credit score for the revolution. This battle belongs to all of us,” Katana talked about.
NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly is smartly-known as Bobi Wine, accused the government of deliberately closing off genuine avenues for opposition occasions to elevate funds, describing it as an strive and cripple the occasion’s operations. “When they seen we were eliminating Museveni’s regime, all avenues—even those supplied for below the Constitution—were shut down. Stare on the fresh Political Parties and Organisations (Modification) Invoice 2025; it is far customized to block NUP because we are a precise threat,” Kyagulanyi talked about.
Kyagulanyi additionally kick-started the force by donating Shs10 million and known as on nicely-wishers both in Uganda and in a foreign country to make stronger the advertising and marketing and marketing campaign geared against ending President Museveni’s four-decade rule. The occasion has appointed Nakawa East MP Eng. Ronald Balimwezo to handbook the national fundraising committee.
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