Kibuule was on Sunday addressing residents of Kabembe town, Kabembe parish in Kyampisi sub-county, on the last leg of his constituency rounds for canvassing for votes to enable him trounce incumbent National Unity Platform (NUP)’s Abdallah Kiwanuka Mulimamayuuni, who ejected him in the 2021 elections.
Former State Minister for Water Ssalongo Ronald Kibuule has decried the rot that befell development projects he initiated while a legislator in the 10th parliament, and blamed this state of affairs on non-performing people who he said have failed to deliver and are only bent on sabotaging government programmes.
Kibuule lamented that he had embarked on upgrading Kabembe to a town council status with new jobs created, street lights installed, roads improved and other infrastructure constructed, but that there is need to kick start the entire network to rejuvenate it.
“Government has injected more funds and better services for market vendors countrywide but where are modalities for accessing this money, let alone willing hearts to follow up these projects? I had bought mattresses for the elderly but the mighty grabbed them leaving the elderly crying even more”, he said.
Kibuule was on Sunday addressing residents of Kabembe town, Kabembe parish in Kyampisi sub-county, on the last leg of his constituency rounds for canvassing for votes to enable him trounce incumbent National Unity Platform (NUP)’s Abdallah Kiwanuka Mulimamayuuni, who ejected him in the 2021 elections.
He brushed off claims that industrialization encroaches on the environment, and clarified that he has attracted 27 factories in Mbalala alone, which he added, have gone a long way in fighting unemployment, and promised to lobby for more investors to cover the entire constituency.
“We started off by devising means of maintaining the investments alongside the environment, and we can proudly call ourselves winners in this area”, Kibuule said.
Still highlighting the importance of factories in the area, the former state minister cited examples of rising rental charges from the previous sh50,000 to sh300,000 in Mbalala area, a readily available market for fresh and other forms of food owing to scaling up of the population size, plus attraction of visitors to the area who come with money to buy a variety of items like meat, chicken, handicraft items and others.
He promised to lobby for a vocational school in the area, arguing that the one in Namataba whose introduction was influenced by him, has now turned into Limkokwing University.
He also pointed out that although he helped Katoogo Health Centre II to be upgraded to Health Centre III and now Centre IV, the situation in Kyampisi Health Centre III still leaves a lot to be desired.
Elaborating, he said that before his advent, Kyampisi Health Centre III had been taken over by bats until he intervened and saved the situation.
However, he says that after his departure in 2021, it now closes at 6:00pm despite the fact notwithstanding that the patient load is growing bigger day by day.
He promised to inject sh10m in women groups in the area, but advised them to avoid the tendency of replicating their services, warning that if they all deal in the same enterprises, they will saturate the market with the same type of products with a limited demand. Kibuule also pledged to supply more piglets to non-Muslim homes, and poultry projects in Muslim homes.
Over 20 former ‘foot soldiers’ from the NUP side crossed over to the NRM and joined Kibuule’s campaign team. They decried what they called the culture of telling lies and looking for scapegoats from opponents by the incumbent MP Mulimamayuuni, as the accountability to voters.
The youths led by Augustine Kamira apologized to residents for having been used by the opposition to fabricate lies that they had been abducted by Kibuule during the campaigns that preceded the 2021 general elections.
The area NRM chairman Ssozi Meddie implored voters to chase away whoever approaches them asking for votes in the next elections because he argued, they will be fabricating another round of lies to tarnish Kibuule.
“These lies cost us a lot and we cannot afford to accept another round of such senseless claims. If Mulimamayuuni is a man worth the name, let him come out and point to projects he has brought to this place and we shall weigh them with Kibuule to see who is a more useful leader”, Ssozi challenged the MP amidst ululations.
Another leader Emmy Mujune Mukwaya said, “Kibuule’s re-appearance is God-sent; we are now back on the way to the top again. The choice is ours – to remain stagnated with lying leaders or to throw them away in option to someone who has something on the ground to show”.
In an interview, Kibuule turned silent to the question of voter abduction, saying, “this was a ploy by my opponents to keep me busy making explanations over their concoctions, but I am happy that the voters are sensible enough and are now only interested in joining me to devise avenues for bringing more meaningful investments in their homes, villages, schools and other places, but not to waste time in such fruitless talks”.
Currently, the race for Mukono North constituency has a list of contenders ranging from Kibuule himself, the incumbent, Mulimamayuuni, Kenneth Nsubuga Ssebagayunga of the Democratic Party (DP), Moses Lukubira Bakubi from the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) and Harriet Mutibwa of the NRM.
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