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By David Serumaga
Every political party in the world would like to build its political base on numbers by always persuading members with a different ideology and those with none to join their party. As we head to the 2021 general elections, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has embarked on welcoming members from the opposition political parties like the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and National Unity Platform (NUP).
Kudos to all the committed cadres of NRM who persuade these opposition members to join this well-structured political party for good leadership of this country. We greatly applaud Basajja Mivule, Andrew Mukasa, famously known as Bajjo, Ashraf Kato alias Ashburg Kato, and many others from the entertainment industry for their decision to join NRM.
However, their coming should not be like gambling. They should follow the procedures, undergo training into the party’s values, mission and ideology, then get commissioned as NRM members. It is true people can be ideologically disoriented, but they do not get oriented by merely declaring that they have joined you nor does it make them look good because they are throwing stones to where they have come from. This is what NRM needs to immediately address.
Before equipping the new recruits with materials like big cars, money and other privileges, these newcomers should undergo NRM ideology orientation so that they can be fully transformed. A political party can’t grow by merely attracting opportunists whose aim is material gain, the acquisition of which leaves party cadres in economic scrunch.
Transformation is a process and the public can easily notice that there are new values someone with a different ideology has adopted in the new political party. The party should make use of the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi, to sensitize and lecture these people about what NRM is, and also offer them good leadership skills.
The NRM I am seeing is a political party that will stay strong in the minds of the people yearning for more years of great leadership, development and transformation. If the party focuses on recruiting whoever shouts louder than the others on social and electronic media, then it will lose out on an opportunity to groom cadres rooted in its ideology – members who will still support the party even without being given cars or money.
The writer is an NRM mobiliser based in Luweero
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