By Charles Opolot
and Ricks Kayizi

MIRIA Obote, the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) presidential candidate, has blasted the NRM government for introducing individual-merit politics, saying it had nurtured corruption and selfishness.

While meeting bishop Nathan Kyamanywa of Bunyoro Kitara diocese in Hoima, Miria said the country had in the last 20 years changed for the worse due to corruption and selfishness caused by individual merit politics.

She asked the church to join UPC in the spiritual healing of the country.
Kyamanywa urged candidates to be mature and to exercise tolerance, self-respect and fairness, since all of them were “children of God, who had an agenda to make Uganda a better country.”

Miria later addressed a rally at Hoima Boma grounds where she urged voters not to exchange their rights for money by selling their voters’ cards to “dubious people.”

She blamed the NRM government for selling off parastatals at “a paltry price which had benefited nobody.” She lamented the rampant poverty, adding, “People of Hoima should join UPC, because it is the only party with a vision to develop Uganda and make her people healthy, rich and proud.”