I came across your recent complaint letter circulating on social media, where you accuse the President of neglecting Nakasongola District in the latest RDC appointments. As a concerned citizen, I feel compelled to address your grievances using the same platform you chose—social media. However, the method you employed to express your frustration is telling, and it is not expected of a District Speaker!
First, As a District Speaker, your decision to vent on social media instead of following the formal channels to address the President directly reflects poorly on your grasp of governance. Was this an attempt to draw public sympathy or merely a spectacle to mask deeper issues within your leadership?
You lament the absence of an RDC appointment from Nakasongola, yet you conveniently overlook the fact that the Minister of Public Service, Hon. Muruli Mukasa—who oversees all public service appointments—hails from your district. If appointments are about securing favors for one’s constituency, as you seem to imply, then shouldn’t Nakasongola be thriving? Shouldn’t Muruli Mukasa, with all his influence, have turned Nakasongola into a hub of opportunity? If that hasn’t happened, perhaps the blame lies not with the President but with those local leaders who have failed to leverage their positions effectively.
Before Hon. Muruli Mukasa, Nakasongola had the late Peter Nyombi, a former Attorney General. Despite this, your narrative suggests that NRM has ignored your district. This selective amnesia is both disingenuous and dangerous. It distorts reality and misleads the public. Furthermore, your district has three Commissioners in various Ministries, five Under Secretaries, and two deputy heads of government parastatals. Therefore Nakasongola is not suffering from a lack of representation in high government offices. The real question is: what has this representation brought to the people of Nakasongola?
Your fixation on an RDC appointment reveals a troubling lack of priorities. What difference would an RDC appointment make if the existing leaders, with far greater power, have done nothing for the district? Have the Commissioners, Under Secretaries, and other high-ranking officials delivered tangible benefits to the people of Nakasongola? Or are these positions merely stepping stones for personal advancement?
More critically, who exactly are you fighting for when you pen such letters? The people of Nakasongola? Or are you simply championing the cause of a political class obsessed with positions and titles?
How does the appointment of yet another official solve the real problems that plague Nakasongola—the persistent drought, the lack of safe drinking water, rampant land grabbing, and the absence of a district hospital? These are the issues that deserve your full attention, yet they are conspicuously absent from your complaint.
It’s high time that leaders like you shift your focus from the relentless pursuit of political appointments and start demanding real service delivery for the people you claim to represent. Political appointments are often nothing more than tools for personal gain, benefiting the appointee and their inner circle rather than the community at large.
It’s easy to point fingers at the President, but the real challenge lies in introspection. What have you, Sande Rodgers, done to alleviate the suffering in Nakasongola? Where is your voice when it comes to the real issues?
Therefore in conclusion, if it’s about public service jobs, better go and camp at the Ministry of Public Service because it’s headed by your own. However , if I were you, I would focus on fighting for service delivery like medicines in the hospital, access to water for the livestock, access to veterinary services, establishment of factories for job creation, better education among others. The people of Nakasongola deserve more than just token appointments!
Franco Malingumu Bulundu
Senior Citizen
Leadership & Governance Expert
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