Kyeyo NRM Ladies Bitter Over Kyankwanzi Unpaid Allowances

By Henry Mulindwa

A section of NRM supporters from the diaspora have urged president Museveni to intervene in their predicament in which they were promised air tickets and heavy allowances to return to their host countries but nothing has yet materialized.

The group accuses one of their leaders Eng. Adam Kasambula who reportedly coordinated the meeting of not minding their plight after he called them to come and attend a 10-day training course on Patriotism in Kyankwanzi.

The training took place between January 8-18 this year and that although these trainees from different countries including Turkey, Thailand, Sweden among others were met the president and were promised air tickets to fly back, this hasn’t been full filled.

Speaking to the Second Opinion, Alice Ndyekezi from Thailand but hails from Kanungu says most of the members are having their jobs at risk because the leave they asked for has since expired and yet not signs of being assisted to get their tickets as per the president’s promised when they met him at state house.

She says the affected group is 93 members who all want to travel but cannot as they lack facilitation to buy tickets and yet all the funds they came with are finished.

Another member Agaba Christine from Turkey says their efforts to contact their coordinator Eng. Adam Kasambula for updates remain unfruitful as he continues to tell them to remain patient and yet according to them, their masters have warned that they would cancel their appointment letters in their respective host countries for absence from duty.

Alice Ndyekezi [Thailand] before coming here, they asked for a one-month leave from their bosses but it is now coming to two months without them returning on duty. Alice claims she is a Mathematics teacher in Thailand and now fears her job is on the line.

She said they came here on a tip off by their chapter leaders who told them that their overall coordinator Kasambula had promised heavy allowances to them if they attended the 10-day retreat and NALI began on January 8-18th although the members arrived here way back in December.

“We are worried about our jobs because we don’t have tickets to go back. They promised us tickets and allowances but nothing is forthcoming. We request that the president prioritizes this because we are going to lose our jobs. Every time we talk to Kasambula he says they are working on our issue but nothing is coming out” she ranted.

Agaba Christine, also a trainee said that ‘we were promised money from the president. We expected good communication from state house. Right now, we are stranded. We don’t know what to do. All the money we came with is finished. Kasambula says we be patient, money is coming, but there is nothing. We ask for when and where, they are not saying anything’

The group now suspects foul play. They want the matter to be investigated to find out whether they were not conned. During the training, the group was taught to be patriotic, they were taught Uganda’s history and were also told to market Uganda abroad and its products. However, they are now stranded demanding an explanation from Kasambula as to why they were brought here.
Efforts to get a word from Kasambula were futile.