Ntungamo District is abuzz with activity as leaders intensify preparations for President Museveni’s highly anticipated visit.
Across hillsides, deep villages, and busy trading centres, NRM flag bearers are conducting dawn-to-dusk engagements to assure residents that the district is fully mobilised to receive the NRM national chairman with overwhelming support.
The Nyekundire groups have also raised the mobilisation tempo, setting high expectations for turnout.
In Ruhaama County, this heightened political activity has also resurfaced unresolved service delivery concerns, with residents repeatedly pointing to collapsing roads, under-resourced health facilities, struggling secondary schools, and perennial water shortages.
Against this backdrop, NRM flagbearer Beatrice Rwakimari has stepped forward to articulate the community’s priorities and what they hope the President’s visit will address.
“I have been meeting my agents and local leaders to ensure that mobilisation is done right from the grassroots to the highest level,” she said, adding that the NRM manifesto has been widely disseminated to guide ongoing discussions.
Rwakimari, who emphasised that her role is to ensure residents welcome the President “with love,” underscored the urgent need for rehabilitation of the Kakukuru–Rwenanura–Kategure–Rubaare road, which she said has deteriorated to a worrying state.
She also called for better-equipped health centre IIIs—especially maternity units where “many women die without adequate support”—and pledged to lobby for long-overdue support for secondary schools in the constituency.
Beyond infrastructure, she appealed for increased funding under the Parish Development Model, expanded access to clean water, and improved agricultural inputs such as enhanced animal breeds and coffee seedlings.
“With these interventions, Ruhaama will become a model county in the country,” she said.
