President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has this Wednesday evening held a massive consultative meeting with NRM leaders and LC1 chairpersons from five Kampala divisions at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds '
The event was attended by over 2,000 NRM leaders and stakeholders.
This meeting also had big names from the NRM secretariat, including the Secretary-General, Rt. Hon. Richard Todwong, Head of communication, Hon. Emanuel Ddombo, Head of mobilisation, Hon. Rosemary Sseninde, and many others.
While addressing the congregation, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni praised the Executive director of Kampala City council, Dorothy Kisaka and warned politicians to avoid dragging her into scandals.
Museveni also shocked the congregation when he said that he is well aware of the Seven Hills cleaners group, who have volunteered to clean up the city .
Kampala City council Authority (KCCA) executive director kisaka in one of our exclusives said Seven Hills is comprised largely on reformed young men and women who used to loiter the streets with no gainful employment.
According to Ed kisaka, With the support of KCCA, these young people were reorganised and have taken on meaningful work in city.
During the covid period, KCCA formed them into cleaning gangs under the Smart City Campaign.
"Their job was to unblock drainages at all the dark spots in the city. Under the supervision of the waste solid management team, they worked day and night with boundless energy and responded to every crisis in the city during the lockdown.
They were called upon where there were floods, fallen trees and buildings and they responded.
With time, they organized themselves into a small-scale organization known as Seven Hills and created SACCOS to empower their members to save"- Kisaka.
Right now these hitherto unemployed youth have proper identification with bank accounts.
Thus, Seven Hills is seen as a threat to the old SACCOS.
Fortunately, KCCA has enough work for all cleaning teams
Fearless M7 blamed Kampala minister Minsa kabanda for involving her self in cheap fights with the ED of KCCA.
President Museveni also left no doubt in anybody's mind where he stands on the matter of the Smart City Agenda champion.
"Leave Kisaka alone, don't disrupt what she is doing. She is doing biblical work, turning the Sauls' into Pauls' ". As we speak, the Smart City Agenda is marching forward"- said Museveni.
While commenting on some of the concerns raised by leaders in their memorandum presented on their behalf by the NRM chairperson of Kawempe Division Mayombwe Daniel Kigozi, President Museveni urged all leaders to understand the issue of Public Service and Socio-Economic Transformation.
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The National Chairperson first told leaders of the type of governance that existed during the colonial days that bred massive corruption through their bureaucracy strengthening their resolve during the people's protracted struggle not to allow the wanainchi themselves to elect their leaders.
“This is the origin of the LC system. The Gombolola, Saza, and Parish Chiefs were not enough to run the administration, so we opted for a parallel administration,” he said.
The President pointed out that a new challenge emerged in wages as the number of public servants increased and yet funds were needed for the construction of roads, electricity, health facilities, and other social services.
He said in the coming budget, the government will need over shs 50 trillion and out of that shs 8 trillion will be for wages.
The President said that is the reason why the concept of leader’s SACCOs was mooted and deemed more appropriate and workable because the government will be putting in some money for the current and past leaders to use and it will act as their bank that will grow as more funds will be sent to the SACCOs annually.
On the Socio-Economic Transformation President Museveni asked leaders to encourage wanainchi to embrace the Parish Development Model for those in rural areas and the urbanites can use the peri-urban model as well as take advantage of the increased production that will accrue from the PDM to buy and sell farmers produce, process or even get involved in services.
President Museveni also welcomed the idea of providing wanainchi with working spaces in the markets as well as the artisan groups. He added that the same will be done for the skilling centers that will be expanded.
On education, the President said that more primary and secondary seed schools will be availed but insisted on affordable education through day schools as boarding ones take more money on things that don’t have any bearing on education like feeding and sleeping among others.
“I want you to understand the concept of affordable education as opposed to boarding that increases charges that have nothing to do with education like sleeping, eating, and so on. Each division or even constituency should have seed schools. The parents also don’t bear the costs. They only concentrate on teachers, laboratories, and houses,” he said.
On the rigging of votes President Museveni promised to discuss the issue when he meets leaders from all Kampala divisions.
On having a clean city, the President said garbage bins should be placed every 200 meters within Kampala city.
“I don’t want to see rubbish scattered on the roadsides No,” he stressed.
The National Chairman of the NRM Party, President Yoweri Museveni pledged to meet all NRM leaders from all divisions separately to further discuss their concerns.
The Secretary General of NRM Hon. Richard Todwong expressed his gratitude for the support NRM supporters have for their National Chairman President Museveni. He therefore urged the Chairman when time comes to offer himself to be re-elected for the Presidency as his age more than qualifies him for the position.
“I am excited by the love your people are expressing for you. When the time comes, please offer yourself in 2026. Take this seriously. You don’t have time to say NO. Your age is the best age to be a President with your experience and wisdom,” he pointed out.
The Minister for Kampala Hajjati Minsa Kabanda appreciated government programs of Emyooga and the PDM as well as the markets that have been provided to hawkers.
Other leaders at the meeting included the Vice Secretary General of NRM Hon. Rose Namayanja, the Director for Mobilization at the NRM Secretariat Hon. Rosemary Sseninde as well as Senior Officials from the NRM Secretariat.
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