One of the leaders of the recent people’s
movement to force Parliament and the Government to fulfill several promises
made to the people, G.Uyanga, has announced that she has joined the National
New Party. Defending her decision to become a politician, after being so
critical of them during her time as a civil movement activist, Uyanga said she
realized during her recuperation at hospital following a hunger strike to press
for the demands of the movement that non-political programs would never be able
to command long-term and sustained popular support. Only a political party had
the means and the reach to harness popular backing in a fight with the
authorities in power, and her present decision would only help her to achieve
more for the ordinary people whose interests continued to mean the most for
her.