By Kampala Post Reporter
President Yoweri Museveni, who is also NRM National Chairperson, on Monday began a two-day by-election campaign canvasing support for the NRM flag bearer for Hoima District Woman Member of Parliament, Harriet Businge Mugenyi Akiiki. He urged the electorate to vote for the NRM candidate to reciprocate government’s socio-economic and political achievements made in the area.
“Roads have been constructed to connect Bunyoro Sub-Region to other parts of the country. Electricity has been connected to 10 Sub-Counties of Hoima district except Kyabigambire, which will soon be connected also; education and health sectors have been fully supported,” he said.
The President added that government is building Kabaale International Airport with a five-kilometre run-way in Bunyoro and said that it is an equivalent of Entebbe Airport. “The government has managed to record its achievements because it focused first on national economic recovery. Secondly, the restoration of peace and stability, and general infrastructure in the country”, Museveni whose flight landed at the under construction Kabaale International Airport said.
Harriet Businge faces competition from the opposition contender, Asinansi Nyakato, of FDC. Hoima District Woman MP seat fell vacant after Woman MP, Tophace Kaahwa Byagira, decided to move to represent the newly created District of Kikuube.
Addressing a rally at Kabaale Public Primary School in Kabaale Sub-County, Bugahya County, the President reaffirmed to the people of the area that other developments, such as the discovery of oil deposits in Bunyoro Sub-Region, is attributed to the peaceful environment and NRM’s zeal for national development. He said that Uganda is hosting a refugee influx from the neighbouring countries because of a peaceful political atmosphere that was ushered in by the NRM.
Museveni, therefore, urged the people of Uganda to guard peace jealously. He used the occasion to assure tobacco farmers in the Bunyoro Sub-Region that Government is going to compensate them following the loss they incurred after selling their tobacco produce, worth Shs.36 billion, to a Kenyan Company- Continental that had collapsed. He thanked the people of Bunyoro Sub-Region for voting NRM in every election in the past.
He advised them to vote the NRM flag bearer, Harriet Businge Mugenyi, to represent Hoima District in Parliament as Woman MP come Thursday 26th September 2019. He further commended NRM women contenders who had been in the race together with Businge for stepping down in her favour to foster and consolidate NRM’s support in the race for the District MP slot. The four contenders in the party primaries all attended the rally.
As the President travelled in the area, he also made a stopover at Buseruka Trading Centre and thanked residents for being economically focused. The NRM Vice Chairperson for Western Region, Maj Gen. Matayo Kyaligonza commended President Museveni for ably steering the country’s politics saying this has garnered more strength to the Movement.
Later, President Museveni addressed another campaign rally at Kigorobya Muslim Primary School in Kigorobya County. He is expected to address two more rallies; in Kitoba Sub county and at Hoima Booma grounds on Tuesday.
