From Hospital Bed To Vote Hunting: Amuriat Returns To Campaign Trail – Even With Painful Eyes - The Pearl Times From Hospital Bed To Vote Hunting: Amuriat Returns To Campaign Trail – Even With Painful Eyes - The Pearl Times

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From hospital bed to vote hunting: Amuriat returns to campaign trail – even with painful eyes

By Samuel Kamugisha
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Main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA) has resumed his campaigns after police pepper sprayed him on December 28, prompting his team to rush him to hospital.

Amuriat returns to campaign trail after being pepper sprayed. All Photos: FDC

Discharged from Fastline Medical Center in Bugiri District hours later, Amuriat returned to his campaign trail on December 29.

Amuriat supporters at Kachumbala in Bukedea District.

His party says that “after yesterday’s incident where he was sprayed with a poisonous chemical, the Villager [Amuriat] is still in pain but up in [good spirits] and has to deliver a message of change to his people.”

Supporters show Amuriat supporters at Kachumbala in Bukedea District

Amuriat will campaign in Teso sub-region districts of Kumi and Soroti.

Defiant Amuriat is back on campaign trail.

As he headed to Kumi, his home town and a place he previously represented in Parliament, Amuriat made a stopover at Kachumbala in Bukedea District.

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer.

A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. Most of his previous work was published by The Observer.

When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block.

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