NRM caucus retreat adopts 10 resolutions

KAMPALA. The week-long retreat of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentary caucus yesterday ended with the adoption of more than 10 resolutions.
Before ending the retreat, the party’s national chairman and President of Uganda, Mr Museveni, led the more than 300 MPs on a walk from the National Leadership Institute (NALI) in Kyankwanzi District to Ngoma State Lodge in Nakaseke District, a distance of about four kilometres.
Mr Rogers Mulindwa, the senior manager in-charge of information, communication and public relations at the NRM secretariat, yesterday said the MPs who on Sunday approved President Museveni’s sole candidature as presidential candidate, also approved voting by lining up behind candidates in party primaries.
These two key resolutions were announced while the legislators were still at Kyankwanzi. Other resolutions were read during a wrap up meeting at Ngoma State Lodge.
“The resolutions titled NRM Ngoma resolutions 2019, were read out by the Caucus Secretary and Bukoto Mid-west MP, Mr Kasozi Muyomba. The MPs recommended the deepening of ideological study within the caucus and the NRM at large,” Mr Mulindwa said in the statement.
Following heated debates during the retreat about uneven distribution of hydro electric power and education services, the NRM caucus recommended to have interface meeting by the end of this month with technocrats and political leadership in the ministries of Energy and Education to harmonise issues raised in Kyankwanzi.
Sources said MPs from Karamoja and West Nile protested on Saturday night and Monday morning over Minister of Energy, Ms Irene Muloni’s explanation to why their regions do not have electricity for industrialisation.
Our sources said it took the intervention of President Museveni, who promised to have a meeting with the two regional caucuses to find a solution to the problem.