Togikwatako Activists Adopt Permanent Writings

From tying red ribbons to holding joint rallies and now gravity writings Is what those opposed to the lifting of the age limit were fronting to make their voices heard. the city woke to white and black gravity writings in different areas reading Togikwatako, Kogikwatako and Leave Article 102 (b) the key cutworks of the campaign of the proposed amendment. Top among the public areas were writings in the middle of the roads, parking lots and walls between Ministry of Internal Affairs and Electoral Commission. The same writings were seen within the city on buildings under construction such as at Christ the King, and the Kingdom of Kampala.

The Police however, was not able to make any arrests saying this was a new twist in the campaign against the age limit. “This is the first of its kind, we had not seen this anywhere. It so happened in the night but as Police, we didn’t arrest anyone of course.” The Deputy Spokesperson for Kampala Metropolitan said such writings were bad in law and one could be charged with vandalism of public property or either property of another. “So some institutions may decide to fine you, if you are taken to Court, they might decide to imprison you for months.” He added that if anyone was arrested, they would further be charged with inciting violence saying the writings were merely a new twist to the other campaigns of lifting the age limit that various activists had undertaken in and around the city. “These are writings that incite violence of course like it has been used. This is the same writing that we have been seeing everywhere on T-shirts, some people utter it out, or on placards. They have just diverted to use a new method of writing on permanent things, permanent structures. That is the method they have taken.” Even though the people that painted the different buildings and roads managed to escape un arrested by the Police, the Police has intensified its vigilance and ordered some of the owners of the buildings such as these to paint the places where the writings were put.