Nakaddu: The 19-year-old trying to dethrone Nantaba in Kayunga
Sunday January 10 2021
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Ssezibwa bridge which ushers you into the central district of Kayunga, gained fame in 2009 when security forces blocked then Katikkiro (prime minister) of Buganda John Baptist Walusimbi from entering the district, triggering off what came to be known as “Buganda Riots” in which scores of people were killed.
Eleven years later, Ssezibwa is, of course, tranquil, and it’s here that 19-year-old Brenda Nakaddu, who is vying for the Kayunga Woman MP seat, stood and welcomed Patrick Oboi Amuriat, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate. At only 19 years, Ms Nakaddu is probably the youngest MP contestant.
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Muhammad Ssegirinya is among the 10 people vying for the Kawempe North parliamentary seat. PHOTO/ALEX ESAGALA
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How can a person from a deprived background and with no political connections make toddler steps into the murky crowded politics of Uganda’s capital, Kampala?
To make his weight felt in the city’s politics, Muhammad Ssegirinya choose an interesting path: Make phone calls on radio political talk shows. That way people will come to know you, he believed.
In 2006, when he started making the phone calls discussing the political events of the day therein tearing apart the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), Mr Ssegirinya was a Senior Three student at Pimba Secondary in Kyebando, Kawempe North constituency.