{UAH} Some unopposed candidates are mine - Mbabazi

Some unopposed candidates are mine - Mbabazi

Go Forward presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi (L) arrives at a rally recently. Photo by Rachel Mabala 

PALIISA- The Go Forward presidential candidate, Mr Amama Mbabazi, on Friday claimed some of the unopposed candidates in the concluded parliamentary and district chairperson nominations belong to his camp.

"I have already started registering victory. We have our candidates who are already unopposed both at parliamentary and district leadership level," he told residents at Matako Koru Grounds in Butebo.

Without naming the candidates, Mr Mbabazi said he was only waiting for the Electoral Commission to gazette them. He enjoys strong support across Uganda and inside the NRM.

By close of nominations for parliamentarians and district leaders on Thursday, nine MPs had been declared unopposed.
While addressing his main rally in Pallisa Town later, Mr Mbabazi promised to explain how he intends to pay teachers enhanced salary.

"I don't have enough time now but I will give details later on what I intend to pay the teachers and where the money will come from. I know where the money is," Mbabazi said.

In his manifesto, Mr Mbabazi says he intends to give teachers "a significant pay rise and improved welfare" but does not specify the figure.

He also promises to introduce a system of teacher career progression where teachers are promoted and given free staff houses to be built at schools.

More to that, he promises to start a teachers' cooperative and saving society in every sub-county to provide cheap credit for the members to restore the dignity of the teaching profession.

However, the excitement and fairly large gathering that capped his tour of Pallisa notwithstanding, Mr Mbabazi's tour of the east started on a low tone and he reached Kabwangazi Teachers Training Institute two hours late.

There was hardly any crowd to receive him and the mild enthusiasm continued through the more than five roadside stopovers he made in Butebo until he reached the venue for his main rally at Market Grounds in Pallisa Town.

Throughout his roadside addresses, Mr Mbabazi reiterated his message of peaceful transition, asking Ugandans to vote him if they want a change in the squalid lives they lead and to have opportunity to witness the first ever peaceful transition from one president to another.

iimaka@ug.nationmedia.com

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