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Don’t make politics “a do or die”- vice president Alupo warns

(Last Updated On: 21 June 2022)

The vice-president Jessica Alupo also warns security personnel to avoid participating in violent events, saying the Katakwi incidents happened in broad daylight “at the watch of the security”.


By Robert Edwomu 

Katakwi- June 21, 2022: The Vice President of Uganda Rtd. Maj. Jessica Alupo has warned the citizens to avoid taking politics as “a do or die”, but rather understand it as a democratic process.

Her caution follows cases where some people have lost lives in the process of exercising their civic rights in the affairs of the country. She cited examples of Katakwi where two people died in the 2021 elections.

The vice-president made the above cautions during the handover ceremony of houses built by the government to Katakwi Election Violence Victims of 2021 as compensation.

The beneficiaries include the families of the late Mark Elobat from Palam sub-county in Ngariam County and the late Teresa Akiror of Apule village in Kapujan. Others are Apule village residents Lucy Apenyo and Charles Otyang who both sustained serious injuries after they were shot at a polling station during the 2021 general elections.

The vice-president’s warning comes at a time when Soroti City East Division is headed for a by-election on July 28, 2022, after the court declared the constituency vacant over boundary demarcation. 

Alupo also warns security personnel to avoid participating in violent events, saying the Katakwi incidents happened in broad daylight “at the watch of the security”.

She asks the politicians to learn how to persuade agents who don’t support them politically in a peaceful manner other than engaging in violent actions.

Alupo gave her example that during her first term in 2006 the late Elobat never supported her but after winning she engaged him softly till he joined her camp up to the time he, unfortunately, met his death on August 10 2021 after sustaining injuries from the clash of supporters. 


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Joseph Andrew Koluo, the MP of Toroma County asked people to avoid such incidents in the political arena.

He intimates that the rights of the people in such a process when the country moves to determine her leadership should be respected. 

Bosco Okiror is the Chairperson Teso Parliamentary Group and MP Usuk County. He regrets the acts that some politicians get into to costs lives. 

He states that a soft approach and engagement is the best to play politics and it shows democracy. 

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