At Walusubi village, residents told Kibuule that they are fed up with empty promises from the current MP and are eagerly waiting for election day to show him the exit.
In the countdown to the January 15th presidential and parliamentary elections, former State Minister for Water, Ronald Kibuule has embarked on a last-minute village-to-village campaign to convince Mukono North voters to return him to his past glory from which he was unseated by the incumbent National Unity Platform’s (NUP) Abdallah Kiwanuka Mulimamayuuni in the 2021 elections.
Kibuule began the exercise in Bulika parish, Nama sub-county, where voters expressed a yearning for him and likened themselves to orphaned children with no hope of accessing vital services that ended with his exit from parliament in 2021; they also expressed regret for having voted for a person they categorized as a good-for-nothing.
They variously reported to Kibuule that Mulimamayuuni last appeared before them during the last campaign and that they also got a chance of seeing him again when these campaigns started.
“It’s unfortunate that the person we voted for vanished in thin air immediately after being elected,” said; as they pleaded with the former minister to forgive them for the blunder they were misled into committing.
“Sir, we are awfully sorry, we have lost hope of provisions like water as your boreholes broke down with nobody to help reinstate them, our only hope is your return to parliament”, Ruth Nambi, a resident of Lutengo A said.
The residents also decried the impassable roads, absence of electricity for close to five years now, saying the villages which Kibuule connected to the national power grid are the only ones that have been fortunate to the extent that also those which had just received electricity poles, Kibuule’s successor did not help them get power.
A local leader for Namulugwe village, John Ssettumba said their village which had a record of a shining role model during Kibuule tenure as MP, has receded to unprecedented levels in many aspects. He said services like medical attention, water and electricity have now become long tales.
At Walusubi village, residents told Kibuule that they are fed up with empty promises from the current MP and are eagerly waiting for election day to show him the exit.
“We admit we made a mistake to succumb to erroneous statements that led us to bring in office a good-for-nothing self-seeker whose only attention is focused on fellow Muslims; we now believe that our lesson has been picked through mistakes we made” Prossy Draru said.
In response, Kibuule said the mechanism to revive what has been thrown into the drains since his departure is still open to him because he knows who needs what, and who can provide the needed inputs for any need. “I established roots in my first year in parliament and that is why I was able to deliver immediately”, he said.
He lamented that although he managed to extend piped water beyond his constituency to other parts of the district, it is unfortunate that today the song is ‘we have no water’ everywhere he passes.
He added that power was extended to as many parts as possible but that when transformers develop hiccups, incumbent leaders remain silent and inactive to the extent that the locals have been looking for him to bail them from the darkness.
He said that after convincing the President over the necessity of a minimum wage in the many industries he helped to establish in his constituency and beyond, he is now going to concentrate on inviting more investors as a means of multiplying the existing ones to service more people, especially job seeking youths.
