Today, presidential aspirant Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde has launched a pressure group called ‘Kisoboka’ to boost his campaigns for the presidency in the 2021 general elections.
‘Kisoboka’ will use orange as its colour and ‘A renewed Uganda, it is possible’ as its slogan.
While addressing the media today, Tumukunde said he chose the name ‘Kisoboka’ because he don’t want to believe that it is not possible. “Some people gave up but I think we can achieve change in this country,”he said.
According to Gen. Tumukunde, President Museveni long veered off the ideals that inspired the Bush War and has rather taken the country on the precipice with endemnoic corruption, abuse of office, sectarianism, impunity tear.
He said that he chose the orange colour because it is a revolutionary colour. “I once used this same colour when I formed the Progressive Party. It is a colour of revolution and that’s why we chose it,” Tumukunde said.
Tumukunde said the new pressure group will focus on youth who he says are the majority in the country, women and the disadvantaged segments of the population.
Gen Tumukunde is an experienced politician having been a member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Constitution between 1994-1996 and later served as Army MP between 1996-2005.
Before joining politics in 1994, Lt Gen Tumukunde was sent on a Command and Staff Course at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, in Kaduna, Nigeria.
He emerged as one of the best students there and later returned to Uganda where he became the Army’s director of planning
