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I don’t want to return to Luzira, says protestor Kobusingye

Norah Kobusingye, 25, is an embodiment of calmness and is always cool-headed even under pressure.

So, when she told family and friends that she was going to join the July 23 March to Parliament to protest alleged corruption and excessive spending by Parliament, they all thought she was joking.

But on the D-day, when images and videos began making the rounds on mainstream and social media, showing her and several other youths attempting to march to Parliament, it then dawned on the parents that, indeed, Kobusingye had meant her words.

The 25-year-old was arrested alongside seven other demonstrators only a few metres off Parliament’s South Gate. The youthful protesters were all meeting for the first time on that day.

“I had initially planned to do a solo protest but after meeting other colleagues in the field, we joined up,” she says.