{"id":19574,"date":"2021-10-15T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=19574"},"modified":"2021-10-15T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T16:07:00","slug":"use-your-vote-to-ask-for-services-says-amuriat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/use-your-vote-to-ask-for-services-says-amuriat","title":{"rendered":"Use your vote to ask for services, says Amuriat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat has challenged voters to use the power of their vote to demand services and a leadership of accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cVotes are supposed to be given for a purpose and when that purpose is not satisfied there will be no need to give that vote again. Use it (votes) as a bargaining tool,\u201d Amuriat said on October 14.<\/p>\n

Amuriat who is also known as POA and the barefoot president made the remarks at the burial of Joseph Wakabi,71, the father to the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Busoga Region Coordinator, Dr Dominic Joseph Wakabi, in Buyende District.<\/p>\n

The deceased died of Pneumonia at Kamuli general Hospital after power went off as he received treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cA great teacher died because electricity went off when he was on oxygen yet we are producing electricity from two dams in Busoga region, that should never have happened if I became president of this country,\u201d he voiced.<\/p>\n

Amuriat challenged the people to rise up and demand \u2018\u2018action against false hopes and perennial pledges that merely excite them into voting and be forgotten till the next election.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018When I was an MP for Kumi District, government promised tarmacking Kamuli-Bukungu Road and a Ferry to connect Buyende to Teso and Lango regions which have not been delivered but keep appearing in national Budgets as unfunded priorities,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

On education, POA expressed disappointment over continued school closure due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour children have been at home for two years because the government says they should not be crowded at school yet when you go to Kikubo (Down town Kampala) people are more crowded than here,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

In his speech read out by Amuriat, People\u2019s Government President, Kizza Besigye called for a sustained push for regime change.<\/p>\n

The late Wakabi was a retired head-teacher and a teachers\u2019 assessor at the time of his death. He is survived by 29 children and 78 grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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