[PHOTOS] Limousines, Mercedes and Camels Dominate UCU Guild Open Air Campaigns

There is usually a lot to expect at open air campaigns for any guild elections of Uganda Christian University (UCU), Mukono, all for the kind of entrance the candidate will make. These moments are characterized with pomp, as the candidates attempt to wow their supporters.

This is usually the other time students will get persuaded to change camps if the presidential campaign disappointed many. For the length of up to about 3 hours, the supporters of Owere Hannington, Barasha Duncan and Gulume Mark impatiently crowded in front of the university main gate, even with lots of pending course works to attend to, as if waiting for the long awaited Messiah who had spent 40 days in the desert fasting and now returns.

Towards 7 pm, the candidates started entering the university gate. On their sides were scores of supporters and others congested in huge trucks packed with sound systems, with lots of unchristian music to announce their presence.

One candidate, Owere rather preferred a rare sound system, his entourage was led by a band that only played songs of praise for the candidate. 

About the grand entrance, Barasha made his in a white limousine, while Gulume emerged in a Mercedes. Owere was aboard a fully grown camel. The candidate had two camels on his entourage that slugged him and his supporters within the university, leaving students wondering what was going on- questioning if, perhaps, the candidate thought the university was a desert or was he out of fuel?

The confusion at the main gate created huge traffic, depriving other vehicles entering and leaving the university the right of way. From the hooliganism, and unruly nature of the supporters, some of the people in these cars report being punched in their faces by persons they could not identify.

The entourages of the candidates in intended madness parked in front of the gate. The combination, trucks with loud music and the band meeting at the same position, opposing sides facing each other as if readying for a duel created the loudest of sounds.

The commotion created a standstill of activities inside the university, those in the nearby library deserting books in front of them, DH temporarily forgotten. In the scuffle, there was an exchange of fists between of the supporters trying to create way for their camps. The open campaigns dragged on until midnight.

The university is to go for the polls today until 5 pm. Announcement of the winner will be made later in the evening.