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Presidential debate organisers maintain ‘no representatives’ for candidates

Isaac Senabulya — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:39:48 +0000

The organizers of the first ever presidential live debate in Uganda are maintaining that all candidates must be present for the debate and will not give room for their representatives. According to the chairman of the elders’ forum of Uganda who are part of the organizers of the live debate, Justice James Ogola maintains that they have been in touch with all the eight candidates as well as their representatives discussing issues to do with the event and how it will be run.

There are still unconfirmed rumors that the NRM flag bearer will not attend the debate which the organizers have distanced but maintain that if he fails to appear then nothing will be done but to have those who will be present to articulate their issues.

The debates are slated for 15^th January and early February this year and will mainly focus on national, regional and international issues.

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Presidential candidates should focus on income generating projects – Nanyunja

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 05:08:34 +0000

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The aspiring member of parliament for Kawempe North Robinnah Nanyunja has called on the presidential candidates for 2016 to focus on income generating projects for the people to sustain other government services in various sectors.

Nanyunja said that they should put programmes that will engage youth for labour production and desist from crimes as they look for survival. She said that although there is operation wealth creation for the people by government, it is not felt in the community, calling for better programmes that will lift poor people from absolute poverty. She attributes high levels of poverty among the people in Kampala to lack of enterprising programmes for job creation targeting graduating and non-educated people.

She urged voters in the 2016 elections to trust their vote with leaders who have clear programmes for employment creation.

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Nominations kick off on the road to 2016

Isaac Senabulya — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 05:32:53 +0000

Uganda yesterday kicked off and hit the road 2016 as it awaits going to the polls in February next year to poll for the candidate of their choice to lead this nation for the next five years as the independent electoral commission kicks off the nomination exercise at Namboole stadium. The commission on opening up the exercise asked all candidates to be mindful of holding peaceful and respectful campaigns as well as relaying their manifestos to the nation to enable them make a better choice come February 2016.

At exactly 10am, the fast aspiring candidate, YK.M7 arrived at the nomination venue and was taken through a vigorous exercise to verify his qualifications and was proposed by Rt. Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda and seconded by the spokesperson of the NRM caucus Hon. Evelyn Anite and was successfully nominated.

On addressing the press just after nomination, M7 re-affirmed that he is going to work on ensuring that more Ugandans get access to clean water use, increase irrigation schemes to support agriculture, construct roads and improve the prosperity for all programmes.

Shortly after, he was followed by candidate Amama Mbabazi, an independent, with a slogan GoForward who promised Uganda change this time round. He also mentioned that he will fight graft, promote peace and security work on revitalizing the economy and better lives of the local citizens as well as create and strengthen ties between Uganda and other states and has chosen a symbol of a chair to use; he was proposed and seconded by Fred Mwema and Hon. Beatrice Anywar.

The third aspirant to be nominated was Prof. Venacious Baryamureba who has been seconded and proposed by his party members and promised to empower the youth whom he says are the majority and if empowered will drive the economy to greater heights.

Nominations continue today.

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