LANGO NRM PARTY LEADERS CHALLENGED TO PREACH SUSTAINABLE WEALTH CREATION

Todwong greets party members after his arrival at Lira Hotel on Wednesday. Photo by Ambrose Okai.

By Ambrose Okai

Lira City

The Secretary-General of the National Resistance Movement Party, Hon Rt Richard Todwong, has challenged the party supporters in Lango sub-region to stop blaming and lamenting only but instead dedicate their time to fighting poverty and empowering households towards sustainable wealth creation.

He made the call on Wednesday at Lira Hotel in Lira City, as he met NRM party leaders from Lango sub-region to assess the progress of NRM manifesto implementation.

“Don’t waste a lot of energy discussing UPC. Speak to the people of development opportunities, because UPC will not give it to them. Let your tenure in office be that which can change the lives of the people that you lead. Our work is to go and mobilize the community to produce the raw materials that the industrial sector needs. That is the linkage we should be fighting for,’’ Todwong noted.

However, some of the NRM party members in the meeting decried challenges instigated on them by UPC collaboration.

Betty Awor Engola, the Apac district woman Member of Parliament, accused the NRM-UPC alliance as one problem causing the NRM Party in Lango sub region.

“I want to be honest. This marriage of UPC and NRM, Secretary General, that marriage must be divorced. Because it’s causing huge problems to us” Awor said.

NRM delegates at Lira hotel. Photo by Ambrose Okai.

The Oyam former woman MP, Beatrice Lagada said UPC is famous for something she called gang-pressing that NRM party leaders should be steadfast to overcome.

“When you, one person, comes out like Tanga has come out and said what he has said, then many people gang around you and they squeeze you and intimidate you so that you can no longer stand for your views,” Lagada said.

However Tanga Odoi, the NRM electoral commission chairman, blamed some of the NRM party members in Lango sub region for double standards.

“And you leaders are now divided because of bread and butter. Have the backbone that you are NRM in the day and in the night. Not to sneak into UPC at night, in the morning you are in NRM. You are the ones who are disturbing us,” Tanga cautioned.

Meanwhile, the Bishop of Lango Diocese Rt. Rev Bishop Professor Alfred Olwaa said political parties need to inspect their party members well. “Whether for the church or for the party, for any community, if as a leader you don’t inspect, don’t expect,” Bishop Olwaa said.