Maendeleo ya kweli na yenye tija kwa wengi yanaanzia kwako wewe binafsi, ili kudhibitisha kuwa ni kweli bofya picha hii.
Ugandan police on Thursday arrested a former prime minister who has launched a direct challenge to veteran President Yoweri Museveni by seeking the ruling party's nomination in the 2016 presidential election.
Amama Mbabazi, who Museveni sacked last year in what was seen as a power struggle, was detained on his way to Mbale town, east of Kampala, to meet supporters. Aides said he was promoting his bid for the National Resistance Movement's nomination.
Police had banned him from holding meetings, saying no campaigning was allowed until the party chose its candidate. "He has to stick to what the law requires," police commander Andrew Felix Kawesi told Uganda's NBS television after his arrest.
"There's no going to Mbale." Highlighting rising tension before the presidential and parliamentary votes expected around February and March, opposition presidential hopeful Kizza Besigye was also detained.
Besigye has frequently been held by police for short periods after he championed a series of anti-government demonstrations following the 2011 election that prompted a government crackdown in which at least nine people were killed.
Opposition parties, including Besigye's, have said they would field a single candidate this time. The opposition say that free speech is stifled, votes are rigged and state institutions are used to support Museveni, who has been in office for about 30 years.
The government dismisses the charges and insists it will ensure fair elections. "The police are eager to demonstrate that they're loyal to President Museveni," analyst Nicholas Ssengoba said, noting that Museveni was "showing Mbabazi that he's the NRM and the ultimate power."
Museveni, 70, is expected to win again, helped by a big rise in state spending this year, but analysts say the election challenge from Mbabazi, 66, may be his toughest yet. "The Mbabazi campaign will continue whether the police want to stop it or not," Mbabazi's spokeswoman Josephine Mayanja-Nkangi told Reuters.
Mbabazi, a former Museveni ally who still commands a following in the ruling party, was transferred to a police station in Kampala and was with his lawyers, she said. Some Western donors have criticized Museveni for holding on to power for so long, but have also praised the rebel-turned-statesman for stabilising Uganda after taking power in 1986 and sending Ugandan troops to fight Islamist militants in Somalia.
Besigye, who has run and lost to Museveni three times, was detained on his way to a meeting at the U.S. Embassy. Francis Mwijukye, his aide, told Reuters he had been due to meet the ambassador.
Without giving details, police spokesman Patrick Onyango said, "He claimed he was going to the American Embassy but we know he had other motives which would lead to breaking of the law so we arrested him."
Siku zote bahati yako iko mikononi mwako tu, ili kudhibitisha kuwa ni kweli bofya kwenye picha iliyopo hapa chini.
Never let a problem become an excuse. Put your Problem in Proper Perspective. What is the secret ingredient of tough people that enables them to succeed? Why do they survive the tough times when others are overcome by them? Why do they win when others lose? Why do they soar when others sink? The answer is very simple. It's all in how they perceive their problems.
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