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Rukungiri WMP Aspirant Hon. Mary Paula Turyahikayo Tips Nyakagyeme Voters to Halt Voter Bribery and Vote Development-Oriented Leaders for Improved Service Delivery, Pledges Tertiary Institutions, Road Improvement, Clean Water and Electricity Extension
The Rukungiri District Woman Member of Parliament NRM flag bearer, Hon. Mary Paula Turyahikayo Kebirungi, made this urge to Rujumbura–Nyakagyeme voters today during her campaign rallies in Kigaaga, Nyakinengo and Katooma parishes, and yesterday in Kahoko and Kinyamahwa parishes.
As a Member of Parliament who served in Rubabo for 15 years, basing on her leadership experience, Hon. Mary Paula, while speaking to hundreds of voters in Nyakagyeme, expressed her frustrations and dissatisfactions over the scarcity of essential services in the area. These included Bugarama in Kahoko Parish–Nyakagyeme and Nyamunika in Buhunga, where she received outcries from residents raising concerns over the poor and impassable state of roads which she witnessed. She discovered that residents now have nowhere to pass their farm produce, incur more expenses while going to markets, and have no nearby schools, electricity, and clean water.
After receiving consistent concerns and demands, Mary Paula comforted residents that she will lobby for such essential services in both Rujumbura and the municipality like she did in Rubabo, in partnership with President Y.K. Museveni, the LC5 Chairperson NRM flag bearer Mr. Andrewson Katebire Charles, and other flag bearers as eligible leaders who are able to deliver services and halt corruption.
However, Mary Paula tipped voters of Nyakagyeme to halt vote bribery by defending their votes after voting. She urged them to eat the money of leaders who are already suspected to be moving house to house distributing money to buy voters after failing to deliver services while in office, and instead challenge them by voting for eligible leaders ready to deliver services ahead of the forthcoming general elections.
Hon. Kebirungi also extended her gratitude to Boona Radio for being the voice of the people and pressurising leaders to lobby for services, and indeed pledged to add Boona Television to also do the same. She further pledged to support the youth by advocating for employment opportunities, having already established BOSJO, and to also lobby for a tertiary institution in Rujumbura.
Due to increased outcries from residents calling for urgent action on bare electric poles in some parts of Rujumbura which have remained for seven years, and whose leaders had been condemning them as illegal, Mary Paula praised the government after witnessing that today those poles are now being wired and connected with security bulbs in some parts of Nyakagyeme.
Meanwhile, after witnessing all the dedication of Hon. Mary Paula Turyahikayo Kebirungi, a huge number of voters endorsed her, praising her for starting Boona Radio which has pressured the connection of their bare electric poles which had been condemned as illegal by their leaders. They also asked her to lobby for a tertiary institution in their area to support development and reduce youth unemployment.
