Dignitaries, journalists to access Liberation day celebrations on condition

By Olivia Nabaggala

10^th Jan 2024

The National Resistance Movement/Army-NRM/NRA Liberation Day celebrations for this year 2024 will be held in Jinja City.

According to a communication from Faruk Kirunda, the Deputy Press Secretary to the President, the celebrations will be presided over physically by President Yoweri Museveni.

Kirunda says that they expect those accredited to attend the function to undertake COVID tests, and this also includes journalists who intend to cover the function.

The NRM/NRA will be celebrating the 38th anniversary of the liberation of Uganda in 1986.

On January 26th 1986, President Museveni together with fellow revolutionaries stormed Kampala and ushered in a new chapter in the history of Uganda.

The sole driving ideology for those patriots was to liberate Ugandans from the tyrannical regimes at the time.

During the Swearing-in ceremony on January 29th 1986, Museveni revealed that this was not a mere change of guard but a fundamental change for the good of all Ugandans.

The above promise created a central rallying point within the population to pull together towards rebuilding Uganda after many years of despair.

The country had gone through tough times due to bad governance from 1966 to 1986.