President Yoweri Museveni, resumed his campaign trail on 24th November in Western Uganda where he has made a spirited appeal to Ugandans to rally behind the National Resistance Movement (NRM), emphasising the party’s role in securing peace, development, and socio-economic transformation over nearly four decades.
Addressing NRM supporters at Saaza Grounds in Kisoro District, the NRM national chairman and 2026 presidential flag bearer said the country still needs the NRM to consolidate the gains achieved and to drive Uganda toward high middle-income status.
The President reiterated the campaign theme: “Protecting the Gains as We Make a Qualitative Leap into a High Middle-income Status”, saying the next phase of Uganda’s transformation requires continuity, discipline, and prioritisation of wealth creation at the household level.
President Museveni also highlighted what he termed the seven major contributions of the NRM, beginning with peace, which he said remains the foundation of all progress.
He specifically reminded people of Kisoro, who have had once-volatile border region and praising residents for supporting government efforts to secure the area.
The second contribution, he said, is development, citing improvements in transport, electricity, communication, and education over the years.
He pointed to road upgrades from Kampala to Mbarara and Kisoro, and promised the completion of additional critical routes, including the Kabale–Kisoro–Mgahinga National Park road, which is under construction, and the Kisoro–Muko–Rukiri–Katoojo road.
President Museveni said the education sector in Kisoro has greatly expanded under the NRM, with 136 government primary schools and 14 government secondary schools offering Universal Secondary Education (USE) and Universal Post-O-Level Education and Training. However the area still had unequal distribution of government schools across the district’s 71 parishes.
President Museveni used the Kisoro rally to revisit one of his long-standing messages: distinguishing development from wealth.
He also revisited the 4-acre model, first introduced in the 1996 manifesto, which encourages smallholder farmers to diversify into high-value enterprises, including coffee, fruits, dairy, poultry, piggery, and fish farming praising those who have embraced it.
By Newsroom
24th Nov 2025
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