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Give us a Cabinet minister, Madi-Okollo residents tell Museveni
Museveni highlighted the good things the NRM has done, including restoring peace in the region, building roads connecting the region to neighbouring countries such as DR Congo, universal schools and hospitals.
President Yoweri Museveni with the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Museveni, during the campaign trail in Madi-Okollo. (PPU)
By: Mayiga Muzamilu, Journalists @New Vision
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Madi-Okollo residents have asked President Yoweri Museveni to appoint a Cabinet minister from their area.
They have also asked the head of state, who is seeking re-election and NRM flag-bearer in the 2026 General Election, to name a school after deceased Arua Municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga. Abiriga was gunned down together with his bodyguard as they drove back near his home in Matugga, Wakiso district, in 2020.
Madi-Okollo National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairperson David Abara raised the demands on October 13, 2025, during Museveni's campaign rally at Ajai Sports Ground in Madi-Okollo.
Big NRM crowd during the campaign rally at Ajai sports ground in Madi-Okollo. (PPU)
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Abara said apart from demands including tarmacked roads, improved health facilities and government-aided primary and secondary schools in every parish, the area also wants a cabinet minister as well as renaming Rhino Primary School after Abiriga.
Museveni highlighted the good things the NRM has done, including restoring peace in the region, building roads connecting the region to neighbouring countries such as DR Congo, universal schools and hospitals.
The President promised them that their issues would be addressed and promised that he would add government workers' houses to the upgrading of health centres.
Museveni later posted on social media saying: When I visit Madi Okollo and see electricity poles, a functioning murrum road, and people using phones, I feel very happy. If we are elected in the upcoming government, physical and social infrastructure will definitely be expanded. Existing roads are being rehabilitated, and new road projects are part of our short- to medium-term plans.
"Currently, Madi-Okollo has 95 primary schools, with 69 funded by the government. Additionally, there are 16 secondary schools in 32 out of 46 parishes. Out of 223 villages, 223 have access to safe water, with the government working to boost water capacity for production by emphasising solar-powered irrigation in Aliboro, an earth dam in Yachi, and a communal valley tank in Peera. Along with peace and security, these efforts establish a solid foundation. All of these developments are deliberate, proper, and guided by politics rooted in Patriotism, Pan-Africanism, Democracy, and Socio-economic transformation."