People’s opinions on Museveni’s PDM Kampala tour this week

14 July 2025, 7:49 pm

President Yoweri Museveni has today embarked on Kampala district Parish Development Model (PDM) regional monitoring tour. The president started his tour in Busega Market where he met a number of traders. This tour will take the president five days to complete since the divisions are also five in number. Museveni thanked the people of Busega Market for a warm welcome and also for engaging in government programs which he said they should continue doing if they are to get out of poverty. It is remembered that Museveni has been meeting different people across the country to monitor how they have benefited from (PDM) and other government programs as one of the ways to get them out of poverty.

It is against this background that various leaders in Kampala, have stated their comments regarding Museveni’s tour in Kampala. Speaking to Journalists in Kampala, the coordinator of Seven Hills, one of the associations cleaning the city, Menton Salim, thanked the president for his visionary leadership and allowing the people of Kampala to also gain in government programs.. “I am thankful that the president is finally in Kampala, we have been cleaning this city, since we were given this responsibility and our lives have not remained the same because we can now earn a living and cater for our families and ourselves,” he said.

Menton also used the opportunity to urge the people in Kampala to vote for members of parliament who will be able to meet the president and lobby for their areas. “People of Kampala should wake-up and vote for president Museveni and members of National Resistance Movement because they are the ones who can meet the president and tell him what they face in their respective areas. In 2021, Ugandans were driven by anger that’s why they voted leaders who can’t even help them. Now in 2026, they should change and give Kampala to the ruling party and see if their won’t be change. For us Museveni has promised to boost our SACCOs with over 1 billion, so, there’s nothing much we need from the president because what we wanted, he provided and waiting for the fulfillment of his promises,” Menton added.

Additionally, the national chairman of Bodaboda union, Mawejje Frank, has also appreciated the president for thinking about the Bodaboda riders. “I want to take this opportunity to thank the president for always fighting for the Bodaboda riders. We have been facing many challenges but the president has been helping us in all ways, including advising us on how we can operate. We the people in this industry, we want to reaffirm our commitment to the president and assure him of our support in 2026. Recently, there were people who wanted to terminate our job through the current digital system, but we thank the president for fighting for us. Since we launched this union in January this year, we have achieved some things including regional offices and have been able to put up functional structures. We have made sure that the riders get Bodabodas at affordable prices. Tomorrow 15th, we are going to give out about 500 Bodabodas from Spiro which are electronic and the beneficiaries will pay in instalments,” he said.

Meanwhile, the vice chairman of Bumonde Traders Association in Kisenyi, Kampala, Njumba Samuel, said for them as traders who deal in Irish potatoes, they also want to meet the president, to express their concerns. “As the people dealing in this business, we have been following the tours of the president, unfortunately, we haven’t gotten the opportunity to meet him and tell him the challenges we face in this business which employees hundreds of people in the country. So, we urge the responsible persons, to also think about the Irish potato traders because there are regional issues which can only be solved by the president. If the president doesn’t get information from us on the ground, it becomes difficult for him to get the reliable information because we are the ones in the business,” he said.