Political opponents called upon to share their manifestos they used while soliciting for votes during 2016 general elections

As a leader iam calling upon all people especially those who were campaigning against me to bring their manifestos so that we can combine them to get better issues that will be worked upon to improve service delivery in our division. Mr. Muhumuza Richard the West division chairperson in Fort Portal municipality said this while appearing live on KRC Fm during ‘Manya Omwebembezi Wawe’ program that is aired live every Wednesday 8:00pm-10:00pm.

 Mr. Muhumuza  on 6^th July, 2016 while sharing his plans for the 5 years term (2016-2021) said the little time he has been in office, already the construction of Water supply-Rwengoma-St. Pauls road with first class marrum is on-going, Rwengoma-Kagote-Mpanga bridge is under construction & Bulyanyenje-Nyantabooma bridge which is now complete where movement of people and goods has been improved.

Mr. Muhumuza Richard the Chairperson West division Fort Portal Municipality

During the 2 hours program Mr. Muhumuza promised to Fight corruption & give accountability regularly, improve on access to safe & clean water, lobbying for increased drug supply to Kagote Health Centre 111 & fencing it, improving the education status in the division, launch a general cleaning day for the division to improve on hygiene & sanitation, work on garbage collection, re-construct Kabundaire market toilet, gazette green belts in the division, improve on revenue collection, road infrastructure, etc. Mr. Muhumuza said with the 958 million shillings budgeted for 2016/2017 financial year; the division will give priority to the above mention service delivery sectors.

He said as a team they are ready to visit all the schools especially secondary schools in the division to ascertain the challenges they are facing and also meet School Management Committees (SMC’s) & other partners in education to lay strategies on how the education sector can be improved.

Mr. Muhumuza promised to support and works with the youth especially those organized in groups and with a positive attitude towards work with emphasis on wealth creation programs. ‘’The problem with our youth is they do not want to work but want to have money and become rich. We shall put bye-laws especially on people who open their bars in morning hours to reduce the problem of our youth going to drinking places during working hours and also send to school all willing school going age children’’, said Mr. Muhumuza Richard the chairperson West division.

Callers were given time to participate in the 2 hours live discussion through call –inns & Sms platforms; ‘’Kagote road needs to be worked on, what plans do you have for it?’’, asked Godfrey Mugenyi a caller from Kabarole district, ‘’What plans do you have for the youth especially those selling food on road sides?’’, asked Abudul Manzi a caller from Matiri in Kyenjojo district.

We are grateful to our partners; SIDA, NED, SPIDER, ICT4DEM & CIPESA for the support both financial and technical.