The money accrued from unpaid salaries for teachers whose names were erroneously deleted during the payroll cleanup exercise in the financial year 2012/2013. Demands by the teachers to rectify the anomaly have yielded no fruit since then.
According to Dr. Rugunda, government has received information that some people within the opposition are planning to stir violence during and after the general elections.
With 28,000 polling stations as per the Electoral Commission register, and a plan to deploy at least 3 polling constables at each station on polling day, Police intends to recruit at least 84,000 polling constables in the ongoing drive.
During the meeting, the party members accused Kiyingi of supporting Immaculate Nabawanuka and Adam Bazibumbira, the independent candidates for Bukomansimbi Woman and Bukomansimbi North parliamentary seats respectively.