By Mulengera Reporters
Speaking to hundreds of Baganda Nkoba Zambogo leaders during a mentoring session on Monday at Makerere’s CEDAT Conference Hall, where responsible and effective youths participation in the Thursday elections was also discussed, the new IGG Justice Aisha Batala Naluzze outlined and explained ways through which young people can contribute to the strengthening of the fight against corruption, to which officially Uganda loses Shs10trn annually.
She explained that Zambogo members, who are mainly Baganda youths in tertiary institutions of learning, can volunteer to serve as integrity ambassadors at their respective campuses so that they amplify the messaging against corruption. She added they can also become assertive and use lawful peaceful means to demand for accountability and transparency while asking leaders hard questions aimed at holding them to account.
The IGG, who promised broader and more durable partnership and collaboration with Baganda Nkoba Zambogo which boasts of hundreds of thousands of members at all Universities and higher learning institutions across Uganda, also tipped the youths about the need for them to become more aware and take up the role of being whistle blowers whereby they can anonymously petition the IG office and report corruption whenever they come across it.
In her brief remarks, Justice Naluzze who learnt about the event at short notice but was nevertheless able to come and preside over because she appreciates the role young people have to play in the fight against corruption, also sensitized the hundreds of youths in the audience about what it means to be a good citizen of Uganda. She emphasized that embracing the war against corruption and going on to volunteer passing on information is a duty to which every Ugandan citizen is obliged to respond. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
