Daily Monitor
Monday December 14 2020
Supporters of NUP and NRM parties carrying the posters of their presidential candidates in Kampala on October 7. Measures put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 have disrupted printing businesses on Nasser Road. PHOTO/MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
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Vehicles would queue up outside Nasser Road to transport the materials to the campaign trail.
However, the measures put in place by the government to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic since March have disrupted these businesses.
With the 2021 campaigns devoid of mass rallies, processions, and public gatherings, the printing business has suffered losses.
The loss of jobs and collapse of businesses occasioned by the lockdown, means diminished income and thus little money for political advertising on the campaign.
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Daily Monitor
Friday December 11 2020
Summary
They say Nandala Mafabi has been MP since 2001 but never nurtured any person apart from himself further saying he is not a good example.
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Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) die-hards, who were dismissed from the party for contesting as Independents in the forthcoming elections in Rukungiri District, have accused the secretary general, Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi, of unfair dismissal and “killing” the party.
In a December 7 letter addressed to the Rukungiri FDC chairperson, Ms Virginia Kyarugahe, Mr Mafabi fired the party’s national political mobiliser, Ms Ingrid Turinawe, Mr Darius Tweyambe, a mayoral contestant, and Ms Winnie Babihuga.