By Mulengera Reporters
Desire Muhooza, the daughter of Gen Salim Saleh, who made State House proud last January when she defeated NUP’s Christine Kaaya Nakimwero, has given her voters additional reason to be proud of their decision to pivot from NUP back to NRM.
It was at her instigation that senior NRM mobilizers like former district Chairman Siraje Kizito Nkugwa, who had switched sides to lead the NUP campaign in 2021, reflected and pivoted back to the Movement.
Muhoozi, who is naturally a low profile person and prefers getting the job done as opposed to publicizing herself in the media, is now the new Minister of State in charge of fisheries, effectively replacing senior NRM cadre Hellen Adoa who had served in that position since the year 2021.
It’s a role which the NRM elder Ruth Nankabirwa (area Woman MP between 1994 & 2021) served in before going on to become Government Chief Whip and later on Minister of Energy. Even though she prefers to do the work than publicizing herself, Muhooza has been around doing public work for a while.
She has loyally served the Movement taking on consequential assignments from both the President and Gen Saleh locally within Uganda and abroad. She also has a history in the NRM youth politics, a platform through which she made tremendous contributions over the years, besides her other role of working at the OWC, which used to fall under the Ministry of Defense & Veteran Affairs.
At the beginning of this year, it became a clear she was a politician on the rise when powerful figures like Moses Kigongo, new Speaker Oboth-Oboth, Mukasa Mbidde, Minister Hillary Onek and others drove to Kiboga and joined thousands of area residents to celebrate her election victory over NUP’s Christine Kaaya.
She was also celebrated for uniting NRM people in Kiboga and going on to be part of the grand effort to diminish the opposition support in Kiboga, a district which has a lot of history in Gen Museveni’s resistance politics because it geographically falls into the heart of Luwero Triangle. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
