Vote for effective service delivery, Mukula urges Soroti voters
SOROTI– The National Resistance Movement [NRM] Vice Chairperson for Eastern Region, Capt. Mike Mukula has sweet-talked the people of Soroti East to vote for the party’s candidate, saying he will be able to work with the ruling government to provide effective service delivery to the people in the constituency and Teso Sub-region as a whole.
Mukula was addressing journalists on Monday at his country home in Soroti City. He said that the NRM party had offered the best candidate in the names of Herbert Ariko for the people of Soroti City East who would ably represent them and that the party had readied its mobilisation arsenal to secure a win for the people.
“There appears to be no effectiveness and cooperation between the people in terms of service delivery. Soroti City needs a leader who will lobby for services for his people, because of good working relationship with the Government. The NRM will tomorrow present its candidate to the national Electoral Commission with enough experience and we have galvanised enough support,” Mukula said.
He added that Ariko was fully qualified to lead the people of Soroti City East due to his experience as a former legislator and the fact that he is an opinion leader on a number of sectors.
The party leader added that the City needed a person that would help connect the people to the government programmes such as the Parish Development Model [PDM] that are geared towards enabling the ordinary Ugandan to join the money economy.
“Politics in the opposition is about opposing everything that the government does, this is not right. Government has introduced the PDM, each ward in Soroti will receive 100m from government, this requires committed and focused leaders to follow up on these programmes,” Mukula added.
Mukula added that they had requested the security agencies not to interrupt processions during the by-election.
“We have urged the security not to interrupt the movement of any procession because the opposition has always hidden their weaknesses with the police interventions. We don’t want to see any tear gas vans since we want this election, to be a free and fair, justifiable and equitable,” he added.
With the by-election scheduled for July 28, 2022, the NRM party officially presented its candidate yesterday to the Independent Electoral Commission for nomination.
Top NRM leaders escorted to EC Ariko for nomination. They included Minister Peter Ogwang, Mukula, Lydia Wanyoto-NRM Women’s League Chairperson and Rosemary Seninde-NRM director for mobilisation, among others.
Ariko joins Moses Attan of Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] who was nominated on Monday contesting for the same seat.
Ariko has promised to help move voters fight poverty by leading them in PDM activities as outlined by government which wants to move 39 percent of Ugandan households out of subsistence farming to the money economy in five years.
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