OMORO- Richard Todwong, the Secretary General of the ruling National Resistance Movement [ NRM ] Party, has interested the religious and cultural leaders in Omoro district and the entire Sub region to use their respective positions to rally locals in the fight against household poverty.
Todwong was speaking to religious and cultural leaders at Opit Secondary school on Saturday afternoon as he mobilized “strategic” support towards NRM candidate, Andrew Ojok Oulanyah who is contesting to take the Omoro County Parliamentary seat, the by-election coming after the death of his father, Jacob Oulanyah, the former Speaker of Parliament who died in March this year.
He said that the religious and cultural leaders form part of the government policies and systems which formulate interventions toward fighting poverty.
He said that many of the leaders seem to not understand the fact that they have cardinal roles in ensuring the lives of their people, which they seem to have forgotten.
“You cannot be a leader and your subjects continue to live in abject poverty. Even for the religious leaders, you can`t continue preaching to people who give coins as offerings because of poverty,” Todwong, who hails from the region said.
Emmanuel Dombo, the Director of Information at NRM Secretariat tasked the regional and national leaders from Acholi sub region to take up the mantle of lobbying the government and other development partners so that the groups in the community are supported to fight poverty.
Dombo said that instead of leaders mostly from the opposition complaining of poor service delivery, they should initiate, promote and support groups or societies so that they are able to get exposure and appreciate farming as a business.
NRM’s Ojok is contesting against candidates from Forum for Democratic Change [FDC], National Unity Platform NUP], Alliance for National Transformation [ANT], and independents.
There have been a series of meetings organised and attended by political, technical, religious and cultural leaders aimed at discussing the fight against poverty, and sustaining a poverty-free society, which is yet to make an impact in the Acholi Sub-region.
The Acholi Sub-region, with its fertile land has seen hundreds of foreigners acquiring and establishing large farms, leaving the initial landowners to languish in abject poverty.
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