The five newly elected youth representatives to Parliament have pledged to connect their electorates to different government projects to improve their standards of living.

During the just-concluded general election, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) won all the five slots for youth MPs.

Phiona Nyamutoro won the national youth MP election while Agnes Kirabo emerged the winner for the central region, Edson Rugumayo for western, Benard Odoi for eastern, and Boniface Henry Okot for Northern Uganda.

Nyamutoro, Rugumayo, and Okot vowed to fight the National Unity Platform (NUP) wave which swept ministers and several other NRM MPs in the central region so that it does not extend to other regions of the country during the 2026 general elections.

“I think for one to say that there is a very big wave for NUP is a lie. It has ended with this election. We are going to fight tooth and nail to reclaim the central region because if you go to other regions like in western Uganda there’s no NUP,” Rugumayo said.

They were addressing a joint press briefing at the NRM head offices in Kampala on Tuesday afternoon.

Kirabo said many youths, especially in rural areas, have no access to government projects like the Youth Livelihood Programme and the Emyooga initiative among others which has left them in abject poverty.

“We are going to work as a team to sensitise our colleagues to tap into these projects. You may find a youth earning at least sh2,000 per day yet if he or she is empowered with more skills, will get more expertise and broaden the chances of getting access to these funds,” Kirabo said.

Odoi said the government should engage the youth leadership structures like the National Youth Council to monitor all projects put in place to benefit the youth rather than waiting at the receiving end yet at times the resources gets lost along the way.