Mayambala gets hero's welcome

Presidential candidate Eng. Willy Mayambala, 33, on Saturday received a hero's welcome as he passed through different villages on his way to his home at Kimegga, Seeta in Namuganga sub-county, Mukono district.

Mayambala is a son of the late Sgt Johnson Ssempala and Proscovia Nambalirwa Ssempala. Ssempala was a National Resistance Army (NRA) bush war fighter.

Mayambala said he decided to overlook the long distance and bad roads to launch his manifesto at his home village, so as to share the joy with the people he grew up with.

"We were staying with these residents for years and we had all lost hope. But I decided to get up and become their messiah who is not only going to lead my village mates to the promised land, but also the whole Uganda," he said.

Mayambala made several stopovers before he reached Kimegga Church of Uganda Primary School, where he had organised his public rally for the manifesto launch.

Mayambala unveiled his unwritten manifesto, saying he intended not to write it as it is already written on the hearts of all the poor and local Ugandans.

Mayambala said he will make sure that hospitals get a facelift, offer free treatment to all and ensure medicines are always available.

"The country's resources will be distributed evenly. Currently, we have some regions, which are more developed compared to the others, some dominate the civil service, security and others," he said.

He showed dismay to the fact that Kimegga Church of Uganda Primary School, where he started his education, is as backward as it used to be when he was still a pupil in the early 1990s.

He asked his village-mates to support him, promising to improve the road network in the area.

Zephania Kato, the Kimegga village chairman, said when Mayambala first told them about his intention to stand in the presidential race, they thought he was just cracking jokes.

Margaret Musanje, the councillor representing Kayini parish, said due to lack of electricity, businesses, such as salons and maize mills are not tenable in their village.