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Youths move to Parliament with pigs

The pigs that some Uganda youths move with to parliament

There was drama at the Ugandan Parliament last week when some youths pulled out two piglets that were painted in yellow and dropped them at the Parliamentary House while demonstrating against alleged massive corruption by some Members of Parliament.

The two youths were arrested by Parliamentary security and detained.

The were dressed in T-Shirts with a list of grievances with slogans like the youth as members of the “Jobless brotherhood”.

On Friday 19th.June, the suspects were remanded to Luzira prison after appearing before Grade One Magistrate at City Hall Magistrate’s Court over sneaking piglets in Parliament.

The two denied the charges.

A few months ago a graduate from Makerere university rode a bicycle for 380KM from Mitooma District in Western Uganda to Kampala to demonstrate his dissatisfaction over the high unemployment rate among the youths in the country.

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Philimon Badagawa.

Philimon Badagawa is a multimedia journalist with skills in news gathering, packaging, editing and online publishing. He has knowledge in data visualization, can design and manage websites. He previously worked as a journalist with Observer media and authored several articles and stories. He does research, video & audio recording, editing and production for online publication. He Participated in The New Dawn photography campaign aimed at rebranding Northern Uganda-USAID/NUTI Project (2010). Philimon is in love with photography, writing, reading, sharing new ideas and interacting with reasonable people for skills development. He was recognized for excelling in Journalism during the Uganda Journalism Awards by ACME in 2015. (philebadagawa@gmail.com, +256 774 607 886)