By Aggrey Baba
The Deputy Secretary General of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Rt. Hon. Rose Namayanja Nsereko, has praised President Yoweri Museveni, the party’s National Chairman, for leading the drive to renew and reorganize NRM structures right from the village level up to the district.
Namayanja said the freshly elected grassroots leaders are the backbone of the party’s mobilisation machinery as the country gears up for the 2026 general elections.
Speaking about Mpigi district’s political journey, Namayanja recalled how in 2011, Museveni scooped 72% of the vote in the area, while his nearest challenger managed just 25%.
Even when some worried about the vote margins, Museveni went ahead to support the creation of new districts (Gomba, Butambala, and Mpigi) to bring services closer to the people.
By 2016, the Museveni’s support remained strong, with 71% in Mpigi, 70% in Butambala, and 75% in Gomba.
On the population front, Namayanja noted impressive growth, pointing out that registered voters in the Greater Mpigi area have jumped from 398,000 in 1996 to over 672,000 today. She credited this to better health services and social progress under the NRM government.
“This is no coincidence. We have a government that invests in people’s lives. Diseases that used to ravage communities have sharply declined, and healthcare delivery has improved immensely.”
She applauded NRM’s efforts in expanding public services, mentioning milestones like free education through Universal Primary Education (UPE) and Universal Secondary Education (USE), improved health access, and the drop in illiteracy levels.
“President Museveni’s visionary leadership has laid the foundation for a brighter future,” Namayanja added.
She urged party leaders to keep pushing the President’s message and achievements out to the people. “We may not yet be where we want to be as a country, but compared to the past, we are better off. President Museveni’s love for his people shines through programmes like Education for All, mass immunization, Prosperity for All, and the Parish Development Model (PDM),” she said.
Namayanja revealed that under PDM, almost UGX 40 billion has been disbursed across Greater Mpigi’s three districts, bringing government support closer to the grassroots.
