Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential flag bearer Nathan Nandala Mafabi has urged the people of Busoga to vote him into power, promising to use his leadership to “chase poverty” and rebuild the country’s collapsing systems.
While addressing residents of Nawandala, Nabitende, and Namungalwe sub-counties on Wednesday during his third day of presidential campaigns, Nandala-Mafabi pledged to confront corruption, revamp cooperatives, and redirect resources to ordinary citizens.
“Give me an opportunity and I will use my wisdom to rebuild the economy. I know where the money stolen by them is, and I promise to retrieve it and invest it in productive things. At least Shs10 trillion is stolen annually from local to central government. I want to switch this money to benefit our people,” Nandala told supporters.
The FDC leader further promised to inject Shs100 million in every village annually to boost household incomes, dismissing the government’s Parish Development Model as inadequate. “My focus will be on village development,” he emphasized.
By evening, Nandala and senior FDC figures including former party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi, spokesperson John Kikonyogo, and MPs Isaiah Ssasaga and Jonathan Ebwalu joined supporters in a kadodi procession that drew hundreds of people to the Igamba Railway Grounds in Iganga.
The youthful and elderly alike danced through the streets before filling the rally grounds.
Some residents openly decried the biting levels of poverty in Busoga, urging leaders to restore the sub-region’s past glory.
The FDC campaign team echoed this call, highlighting the need for quality education, improved healthcare, and economic opportunities for ordinary households.
“Busoga has the potential to thrive again,” Amuriat told the crowd, insisting that FDC’s agenda was rooted in restoring dignity and ensuring citizens benefit from public resources.
Nandala-Mafabi listed priority reforms, among them, upgrading district hospitals like Iganga with drugs and diagnostic equipment and elevating them to referral status, improving transport infrastructure to ease trade and connectivity, relaxing electricity tariffs to make power affordable for homes and industries and revisiting taxation policies to make them fairer and growth-oriented.
Calling on Busoga to be “ambassadors of change after four decades of President Museveni’s leadership,” Nandala promised to stand with Ugandans in dismantling systems that, in his view, have kept the country poor.
Nandala Mafabi is today in Buyende and Kamuli districts rallying support as FDC pushes to regain its footing in the national political landscape.
