As a way of expressing resentment and discontent over security forces brutality against the opposition, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat said that he will campaign without putting on shoes.
The election campaigns will run for 60 days. This decision came after his arrest on Tuesday when he was on his way to Kyambogo for his nomination. Amuriat was brutally arrested from his party headquarters in Najjanankumbi by security operatives who later drove and dropped him to the nomination centre without shoes. “I’m extremely angry that this could be done to me in my own country. I don’t understand whether there is democracy in our country when a regime chooses to do this to a potential candidate,” he resented. “I have not seen my shoes because they have been taken away by police, for now, I can say that they became a police property and because of the force and torture that the police force meted on me, I’m going to campaign without shoes,” he added.
