To. Recognize where exactly. On her current culture history. G. W. Travel extremely worth a visit. This is t. V. News africa on the program today the fight for faith claim ugandas opposition says the ruling party is using the coronavirus pandemic to steal the upcoming election with political bradleys bad they say their message isnt reaching voters because the president is blocking dave grohl cost will hear from the young hopeful who wants to pollute the way it was 70 from office. Ive presented myself as the need to put together all these resources what we need right. No. That we did lead us through the. Right now as we speak i know that im fully qualified. But does popstar bobby why have the staff to be president. Want to welcome to news africa its good to have your company it is 6 months to go until you can do is president ial election and Campaign Read have been banned because of the coronavirus pandemic the Electoral Commission has candidates to use media in states to get their message to voters but the opposition says they dont have fair access to the countrys broad costas in a moment ill be talking to the man whos the merged as the strongest president ial aspirant but 1st this report on the countrys 1st virtual campaign. The radio for information about uganda. In february. But she wont attend any of this time. Has. To stop the spread of the coronavirus now youll get i did not get him i like it when a candidate talks to me directly and i can also ask what i want entirely depending on the radio is going to be hard. On top of print candidates now have to mainly campaign via the Radio Television and the internet. We are in the flood stage of Community Transmissions it means that we need to be one. And find ways of accepting the new normal and that just from the conventional ways of campaigning but stopping candidates from physically campaigning for votes has not gone down well with the opposition these state accuse president Yoweri Museveni of using the pandemic to money play to the electoral process this is. Simply outrageous that. Anybody would consider that action held in such an Environment Limited to media can be even more story monterrey are considered to be an election that is free or fair right from simpson to the end this is about 70 but the government maintains that it is Public Health 1st we are all our way and that could be the 19 is here in uganda and we are also mandated to make sure that ugandans are given information and they are protected in one way or land and so it would be very unfortunate for anyone to believe that government is taking advantage of the situation but even media campaigning will be difficult demand for air tape could overwhelm local stations and the countrys Online Network more than 2000 candidates are vying for elective public offices from village level to the presidency or lets listen to even if you committed all the time on the 292 Radio Stations for our peers. 3 months or so still you would not be able to meet the demand so where are people going to campaign from even if you decided to say ok fine some will use radios others will use other social media platforms the Internet Penetration in uganda doesnt exceed 50 percent. That could mean not getting information from some panty beats for the politicians whose message you want to reach that could cost them. So how will be in a bit of a hold election rallies affect the campaign that is a question i put to ugandan activist rob it also known as the wine. Sure its actually not only the inability to hold rallies but we cannot meet we cannot go on Radio Stations they lost them all supposed to go on the Radio Station the military surrounded the Radio Station beat up people on step interesting analysing them in uganda why the regime why the minister of health and other people from the ruling party are going around holding must rallies and must processions the people the members of the opposition particularly those from the People Power Movement which is unda which is having the National Unity platform as a political wing are completely not allowed to express themselves to meet people or to have any kind of Political Engagement that is the situation in uganda although the people of uganda are fighting back mr kerry let me lets talk about the election itself your country uganda has had the same president 23 decades now what did the opposition in the country more than 3 decades fair enough it what did the opposition stand a better chance if it were unites it youve not been able to form alliances without the opposition members isnt that selfdefeating well i must say yes unity is a solution against any dictatorship and we have examples in the recent past and the most recent being the election in my life with that was massively won by the opposition because they came together but again i must be quick to say that the opposition does not only mean the politicians but it means the people that are opposed to the british ship in uganda i am a team of spent the last 2 years talking to all the political players or the political groupings in uganda so that we can come together unfortunately they have been in a lot of interests that we have not been able to agree. That being see i know that the people of uganda we are here to vast i convinced that the people of uganda already united this really been telling us why need the People Power Movement for the sake of the election that i together with my team had to create. The political wing of the People Power Movement and that is the National Unity platform we did this because we knew that we had to answer the cries of the people to unite we established the national the National Unity platform to unite all forces of change but it had to come as a Political Party and right now as we speak months and many of people are crossing to the national you just please so i am less interrupt you there because i do want to ask you this right you what do you have to say to 2 ugandans who think that youve got a great job in using your voice to amplify the voices of 5 this is especially young people in the country but they argue that that doesnt necessarily make you president ial material well im not here because im president ial material there are so many people who are president ial material thousands but they do join up with voice either can become zia i present myself as a group. I present myself as a group to put together all these resource what we need right now is a leadership that we do lead us through this dictatorship right now as we speak i know that im fully qualified to lead uganda but again i know that its not my qualifications i dont its a qualification to of all the ugandans that one change this is im not doing it as a person we have doing this as a team but again i must also see that i am president ial my dear you and well educated and well researched and will travel but most importantly if we have to compare with a president that has presided over our country for more than 34 years he was he is not as educated as i am he was not as great people as i am and you was around my age when he came to power when he took over the country fair i want to believe that i am as fully as him or even more serious than i want to bring this conversation see you mr you because what is it that you are offering you cant instruct us about some of your policy lets talk about next years election assuming you get the job and you are president of uganda what is the 1st thing for example that you will do as the president. I together with my team want to put an end to a low less leadership we have 5 Core Principles that we have targeting one is the rule of law and respect for human rights which you dont have in uganda the laws exist we have the most beautiful constitution and we have amazing laws which we do not respect which the government in uganda does not respect to want to return the rule of law and the respect for human rights as a common person one of our biggest cries as being the head of state that because we lose so many people that we shouldnt be losing 300 more than 300 children a day and more than 1000 women giving birth die in uganda on a daily basis one to improve the health one to improve education who want to improve agriculture because that is the bedrock of our economy we want to bring back the ownership of the of the Natural Resources and line of our country into the hands of the people and most importantly finally we want to unite our deeply divided country divided along ethnic. And religious and political lines one to unite our country and then prepare project it better image of our country because we as you can and we are better than they we are being represented or rather misrepresented all right that is. Better known as bobby when talking to us from kampala uganda thank you. The Global Tourism industry is battling to survive in the pandemic heres a look at how the ritual tools of bringing visitors to atlanta. This is what truism looks like in some 2020 virtual pictures of the one traditional such tells us and the capital kigali. Weve used that a lot during this lockdown time when people were not traveling to entice people. To come back without the pandemic all this would have been peak time for tourism in 2018 the industry brought more than 400000000 year in revenues to the small Central African country now results like this and the single monteagle e. C. Only local tourists and. 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