By Charles Katabalwa
24th Jan 2022
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has threatened to mobilize Ugandans for a demonstration over sky rocking fuel prices once the government doesn’t solve the problem in one week.
Patrick Oboi Amuriat, the FDC President told the journalists in weekly briefing at party headquarters in Najjanankumbi that the high prices of fuel has hit hard the entire economy which the government has to urgently find solution before it worsens.
Many pumps have run dry for nearly two weeks across the country and this has been attributed to hundreds of trucks that have remained stuck in tailbacks at the border Uganda hares with Kenya.
A litre of fuel is being sold between 5,000shs and 12,000shs from the 4000shillings previously.
Similarly, Amuriat has accused President Yoweri Museveni and his agents for allegedly treating COVID-19 as a business enterprise by concentrating on enforcing mandatory payment of Covid19 testing which has resulted into high prices of fuel.
He says if truck drivers had been allowed to enter the country without another testing of Covid19 or on free testing system, fuel prices should have gone up as it seen.
Meanwhile, FDC have condemned the manner in which vendors have been chased from the streets of Kampala saying there should have been other methods of handling them.
The Party has also extended its condolence to the family of the late Bank Of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile who died on Sunday from Nairobi over diabetes related illness adding that the late was held on the job which they termed as hostage by President Museveni.
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