President Yoweri Museveni has boasted that no other political party or presidential candidate would have attracted huge crowds like the NRM if the Corona Virus pandemic wasn’t in our face.
The President while addressing a select group of party leaders for the Lango-sub region at Olili Primary School in Apac District yesterday reaffirmed that he will not be tempted into conducting public rallies or hold processions because it would endanger the public in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said the NRM had decided it would engage voters through house-to-house mobilization.
‘If it was safe, there would be rallies and nobody would have bigger rallies than the NRM but we care about your safety. Don’t join those enemy groups forming crowds that will put people in danger. This bankruptcy of calling people in such dangerous times is criminal and we are going to deal with these people,” he said.
The President, who is conducting his campaign at the sub-region level, has been meeting groups of not more than 70 NRM leaders, under strict adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) issued by the Electoral Commission and the Ministry of Health.
About compensation for cattle in Acholi, Lango, and Teso sub-regions, the President said the government will increase the money to Shs50 billion per sub-region so that matter is resolved once and for all.
He said roads in Lango will be fixed and maintained, widened and strengthened, citing the Tororo-Mbale-Soroti-Lira-Kamdini and Rwenkunyu roads.
The President told the NRM leaders not forget to remind the people of the need to shift from subsistence farming to commercial farming so as to improve their household income.
