{"id":44108,"date":"2021-01-05T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=44108"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:30:39","slug":"i-made-my-decision-to-become-a-president-in-p-2-katumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/i-made-my-decision-to-become-a-president-in-p-2-katumba\/","title":{"rendered":"I made my decision to become a president in P.2 – Katumba"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katumba with Brian Mulondo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Noelyn Nassuuna<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presidential Candidate John Katumba has revealed that he started chasing his dream of becoming the President of Uganda when he was in primary two.<\/p>\n

While appearing on KFM\u2019s D’Mighty Breakfast, Katumba says he was inspired by the injustices around town which he wanted to stop.<\/p>\n

\u2018Right away from childhood, I made my decision in P2 when I saw a lady who was being tortured I think by KCCA people. I saw guys who grabbed a lady and drove her away leaving me hurt,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Katumba further refutes the allegations that he is a project being used by Museveni in the election process.<\/p>\n

\u201cUgandans are aware that I\u2019m not a project. Many people have seen and listened to me and are sure that I\u2019m not a project,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Katumba, who made very many people wonder where a fresh graduate like him got Shs20m for nomination says that while soliciting signatures, he asked people to fund the cause. Katumba adds that since then, many people have come up to fundraise for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in a hustle and I\u2019m in a cause. People like Kasuku, Pastor Mondo and Gashumba and other people called me to fund my project. I keep getting mobile money on my phone number. I was also given a Hummer to use during my campaigns,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

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Katumba with Maritza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Katumba says that his favorite song is “Katumba Oye” by Santana. Katumba who corrected Maritza and Brian Mulondo, the hosts of the show, who were saying his slogan softly mentioned that it has to be said with a lot of energy.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou say ‘Katumba Oyee’ with a lot of energy because when you are chasing away the devil, you use a lot of energy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Katumba says that during the campaign, he has seen and learnt a lot. He has realised that people are poor and are being over worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are in slavery. It is like we are being colonized by these Arabs who are rough,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

One area that stood out for him is the northern Uganda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn northern Uganda, people are really suffering and in Zombo, you find that there is a trench in the middle of the road. These people have never seen or heard about good roads. In Karamoja, people have minerals but don\u2019t benefit from them. In Mbale, they declared it as a city but it\u2019s a town. People there are suffering. They declared it as a city so that they can get more tax from them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Brian asked Katumba whether he would remove the city status but he insists he will make it look like a city instead of removing the status.<\/p>\n

Katumba who disagrees with the way money is spent says it\u2019s not right to spend money on teargas. He says this money should be invested in other economic services like fishery.<\/p>\n

Katumba says he will give Ugandans independence, economically. He adds that Ugandans are oppressed and that makes them slaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Noelyn Nassuuna Presidential Candidate John Katumba has revealed that he started chasing his dream of becoming the President of Uganda when he was in primary two. While appearing on KFM\u2019s D’Mighty Breakfast, Katumba says he was inspired by the injustices around town which he wanted to stop. \u2018Right away from childhood, I made my decision in P2 when I saw a lady who was being tortured I think by KCCA people. I saw guys who grabbed a lady and drove her away leaving me hurt,\u201d he says. Katumba further refutes the allegations that he is a project being used by Museveni in the election process. \u201cUgandans are aware that I\u2019m not a project. Many people have seen and listened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":44109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}