Jinja City – President Yoweri Museveni has concluded his campaign trail in Busoga, highlighting key gains in security, infrastructure development, and wealth creation, a key indicator that he was set to take the campaign to Kigezi.
Speaking during his final stop in Jinja, Museveni said Busoga’s progress reflects the pillars on which the NRM has built Uganda.
He noted that the region was once affected by insurgencies, with groups like the Alice Lakwena rebels reaching Magamaga and Busede. “We brought peace to the whole country. That was the first pillar of Uganda’s house,” he said.
The President pointed to extensive government investment in the region’s infrastructure, citing improvements on the Jinja–Tororo road, the Jinja–Kampala highway, and earlier works on the Jinja–Kamuli route.
He announced that government now has funds to construct the long-awaited Jinja–Budondo–Mbulamuti–Kamuli road, a project he said had delayed due to competing national demands.
“When people demand many things at the same time, resources scatter and little is achieved. Prioritisation is essential,” Museveni said, noting that this principle guided the NRM even during the guerrilla years.
Museveni also highlighted progress in education, explaining that Jinja District and Jinja City together host more than 70 government primary schools and 20 government secondary schools. However, he called for fairer distribution to ensure every parish has at least one government primary school.
In the health sector, the President noted that all sub-counties in Jinja District and Jinja City now have functioning health facilities, ranging from Health Centre IIIs to the regional referral hospital.
He placed strong emphasis on wealth creation, describing it as the “third pillar” of Uganda’s transformation. Museveni encouraged households to adopt the four-acre model and other enterprises supported under government programmes such as the Parish Development Model, Operation Wealth Creation, and MYOGAs.
Even urban youth without land, Museveni said, can benefit through skills training, citing testimonies from tailoring, metalwork, and other trades within the skilling hubs. These, he said, are turning young people into income earners.
The President also pointed to rising industrialisation as the “fourth pillar,” saying factories in Busoga are creating thousands of jobs and transforming the economic landscape. He vowed to address complaints of corruption in factory recruitment.
With the Busoga campaign trail successfully completed, Museveni announced that he will now head to Kigezi, marking the next phase of his nationwide campaign engagements aimed at rallying communities around peace, development, and household prosperity.
