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When, on Monday, a group of politicians belonging to the Katonga faction of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) confronted the police as they tried to petition the Kenyan embassy over their colleagues who were arrested in Kisumu last month, there were prominent faces. These included lawmakers Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda (Kira Municipality) and Nicholas Kamara Thadeous (Kabale Municipality); Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura; Roland Mugume Kaginda, a former Rukungiri Municipality lawmaker; and Harold Kaija (the secretary general of FDC Katonga faction).

There were also not-so-prominent faces: Wahab Musinguzi; Eric Wasswa; Phiona Kabayiza; Zalikah Mutesi; Gilbert Nayebare, a hawker; and Innocent Turyahikayo.

There was also Ingrid Turinawe. Three years after taking a hiatus from activism and politics, she returned to the turf that had defined her for years, including confrontations with the police.

Before the 2021 General Election, Turinawe had come to epitomise what is now commonly known as being a foot soldier. Such was her mastery of the same that she was nicknamed “Commander Lands Forces.”

Face of Walk-to-Work

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