NTV PANORAMA: Has NRM itself to blame for loss in Buganda?
Since 1996, President Museveni’s star power in elections in Buganda had been unrivaled until last week’s polls in which his ruling NRM party performed dismally and about a dozen bigwigs from the region were jettisoned by the electorate, which the President has attributed to sectarianism. All the while as NRM enjoyed support in the central, the most common parlance was “Kasita twebaka otulo” literally meaning “at least we can sleep.” But absence of war does not mean peace. Amidst the snowballing youth unemployment rates, an underwhelming economy, grand scale corruption and lately, the increased cracking down on dissenting voices with scores of opposition youths in detention, among others, which are much more felt in the central, was NRM’s loss perhaps inevitable, and where does that leave its relationship with the sub-region.