Barely a week after the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) dismissed him from employment, former prisons warder Lawrence Ampe, has joined the National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s campaign trail to canvass votes for him.
While campaigning in Ngora District on Saturday, Bobi Wine was joined by Ampe who was part of the crowd listening in and when given a chance to address the crowd, called for change.
“We all know what is right even though most of you hide the truth, it doesn’t help us to keep the jobs yet Uganda is dying, paying fees for children yet they aren’t getting jobs, in good governance, jobs will be there” he said.
Ampe further revealed that he was happy to be dismissed from the prisons service and promised to work together with the community members as he has been doing during his service in prisons.
“I was so happy for prisons to discharge me, it was my prayer always, you have been seeing me, people of Ngora, you know me very well, we have been working together and in the new Uganda I promise you, we shall work together more, my people in Ngora, stop fearing” he said.
Bobi Wine thanked Ampe for speaking out against injustice and the patriotic stand he has taken through the posts on his social media account.
“At your age, many Ugandans don’t know that they can contribute to their country, you had a government job and you were comfortable, just as I was comfortable, but of course we know, you cannot be comfortable alone when the rest of your brothers and sisters are suffering” he said.
The Uganda Prisons Service dismissed Lawrence Ampe, a warder with Ngora Prisons from service over allegedly engaging in partisan politics and criticising the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) through social media.
In a letter dated December 17, 2025, addressed to the Officer in Charge, Uganda Prisons Ngora, the Prisons council resolved to dismiss No. 17974 Warder Ampe Lawrence from the service with effect from December 9, 2025.
