FDC Katonga faction threatens to sue Amuriat, Mafabi over violence

By Olivia Nabaggala

25^th Sept 2023

The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC faction led by the Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago threatened to drag the party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi and Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi and commanders of police for procuring and looking on respectively as criminals beat up delegates who had come to attend the extraordinary delegates’ conference of the FDC.

Speaking at Katonga Road in Kampala on Monday, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the FDC spokesperson said they can’t just look on when gangs take over their party and wreak havoc.

He called upon all FDC members and other Ugandans who lost property to file details with Harold Kaija who was appointed as the acting secretary general replacing Nandala which information will be used to support the charges.

Last week, police tried to stop the Busabala meeting by heavily deploying security at Nature’s Green Resort Beach where it was scheduled.

However, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, has denied that police knew let alone worked with the gangs that terrorized FDC delegates.

Meanwhile, Erias Lukwago who was appointed to replace Amuriat as acting president of FDC said they have embarked on undertaking their work starting with filing a petition seeking an interim order to stop the Najjanankumbi organized meeting.

Lukwago said this week he is going to hold a National Executive Meeting this Thursday to come up with a plan of action to push the party for the next six months under which they will be in an acting capacity.

Meanwhile, as the team at Katonga addressed the media, FDC Deputy Spokesperson John Kikonyogo and Toterebuka Bamwenda also held a parallel presser at the FDC headquarters in Najjanankumbi maintained that the ongoing election process was legitimate and wondered why Lukwago dismissed the exercise.