The Women’s Protest Working Group have threatened to storm today’s State Of The Nation Address. President Museveni will deliver the State of the Nation address in fulfillment of Article 101 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda. Yesterday, the group were blocked from from Police Headquarters after IGP Ochola Walter had informed them of his schedule.
According to Stella Nyanzi, one of the vocal women’s activists, they will storm Serena Hotel today!
“For now, today I am carrying my second set of protest coffins, drum, protest songs, cooking pots, sauce pans, spoons, mingling sticks, placards and markers to the Serena Hotel. I am participating in Storming the State of Nation Address #SONA2018UG along with other members of the Women’s Protest Working Group WPG. I am dying to tell dictator Museveni that #WomensLivesMatterUg!” She posted on Facebook.