Dokolo Technical School waits 16 years for presidential bus pledge

25 August 2026, 10:12 am

By Winnie Auma

Dokolo Technical School is still waiting for the fulfilment of a presidential pledge to provide the institution with a bus, 16 years after it was made.

The school’s Board of Governors Chairperson, Julius Peter Odwe, says President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni pledged to purchase a bus for the school in 2010, but the pledge has never been fulfilled.

Odwе says members of Parliament from Dokolo have made several follow-ups with the government, but there has been no progress.He says he also wrote to State House in 2020 to remind the President about the pledge, and raised the matter again when Museveni visited Dokolo District during his campaigns in 2025, but the school has not received a clear response.

Odwе says the prolonged delay has affected the school, especially when students need to travel for activities outside the institution, as hiring transport is expensive.

He says the school has since purchased a minibus to ease the transport burden as they continue waiting for the presidential pledge.

Meanwhile, the Dokolo Woman Member of Parliament, Sarah Aguti Nyangkori, says several presidential pledges in the district remain unfulfilled despite progress on some government projects.

Speaking recently during a monitoring visit by the Parliamentary Committee on Quality Assurance to Amodo Bridge in Agwata Sub-county, Nyangkori asked the committee to help follow up the President’s pledge to provide a bus to Dokolo Technical School.

However, the vice chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Quality Assurance, Ann Adeke, advised Nyangkori to raise the matter on the floor of Parliament.Adeke says this would allow the responsible minister to confirm the pledge and provide guidance on how it can be followed up and fulfilled.

The school says it will continue using its minibus to transport learners as it waits for the government to fulfil the 16-year-old presidential pledge.