It is hard to believe that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago are no longer friends. Gone are the days when Lukwago and Nambooze were moving together as if they were husband and wife or brother and sister.

We have been reliably informed that currently when Nambooze brings an argument Lukwago openly fights it. The bad meat between Nambooze and Lukwago started during the appointment of the Deputy Mayor.

Sources say that Nambooze had requested Lukwago to choose a catholic and an opposition councilor to be the deputy mayor since Lukwago was a Muslim.

The development came after the Democratic Party requested Lukwago to appoint Sulaiman Kidandala as the deputy mayor of Kampala.

Nambooze argued that her resistance was not to rebel against the decision of the Democratic Party but she only wanted Lukwago to balance religions. Lukwago accepted and brought two names before the councilors to approve one of them to be the deputy mayor. That was the name of Luyiga and that of Kidandala.

When the councilors pressed him to give them one name for them to approve, Lukwago dropped that of Luyiga and gave them Kidandala.

The furious Nambooze went out of the hall, jumped into her car and drove off. And this could explain why Nambooze was rumoured to campaign for an NRM candidate in Luweero woman MP race while Lukwago has declared to support the DP candidate in the race.