{"id":72319,"date":"2024-04-29T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=72319"},"modified":"2024-04-29T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:05:54","slug":"fdc-suspends-13-members-for-burning-amuriat-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fdc-suspends-13-members-for-burning-amuriat-posters","title":{"rendered":"FDC suspends 13 members for burning Amuriat posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Masindi District Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party executive committee has suspended 13 of its party members who two weeks ago took part in burning of campaign posters, including those of their 2021 presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The move was spearheaded by Masindi District FDC party chairperson Fredrick Banage Bitaamale who said the suspension was response to \u201cviolation of party values and article 5 of the FDC constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cany actions contrary to the party&#8217;s interests warrant disciplinary measures, including excommunication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are no longer members of our party. Their actions of burning posters of our 2021 candidate (Amuriat) are something we can&#8217;t tolerate as a party. We have suspended them as a way of upholding party values and discipline,\u201d Bitaamale said at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He added that individuals who burnt the posters are purportedly affiliated with Dr Kizza Besigye and other party members supporting the Katonga faction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose individuals&#8217; acts do not represent the party&#8217;s official stance,\u201d he noted of the poster burning incident which took place at the FDC offices in Nyangahya Cell, Masindi Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment on the matter, former Masindi District FDC General Secretary Augustus Bigirwenkya said they burnt the posters protesting over allegations of corruption involving Amuriat.<\/p>\n<p>Bigirwenkya and his group insisted that Amuriat could have received money from President Museveni which is against FDC expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only burnt pictures of the 2021 campaigns from our party offices because we could not condone individuals known to have received money from President Museveni, an act of corruption we don\u2019t tolerate as FDC party members,&#8221; Bigirwenkya maintained.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that Masindi FDC party is aligning its allegiance with the Katonga FDC faction.<\/p>\n<p>Bigirwenkya added that: \u201cOur decision also stemmed from a March 6 planning meeting in Masindi which resolved not to keep pictures of candidates from the Najjanankumbi faction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The Masindi District Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party executive committee has suspended 13 of its party members who two weeks ago took part in burning of campaign posters, including those of their 2021 presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat The move was spearheaded by Masindi District FDC party chairperson Fredrick Banage Bitaamale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10,258],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-72319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FDC suspends 13 members for burning Amuriat posters - 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