The Rukungiri Municipality Member of Parliament Hon. Dr. Elisa Rutahigwa has challenged people to shun commercialization of politics ahead of elections. With less than two Months to National Resistance Movement (NRM) party elections, Rutahigwa said that several contenders have already started paying costs to achieve their political goals.
He revealed this yesterday while giving the public access to Marumba land in Southern Division Rukungiri Municipality which he hired from scouts. The land was previously occupied by locals, but later on, the leadership of Rukungiri district scouts decided to hire it to the community members.
Since then, locals who used to congregate on the land for physical exercises and social events were denied access. However, after the contract with the person who had been using it expired, the Member of Parliament for Rukungiri Municipality Hon. Dr. Elisa Rutahigwa decided to rent it and offered to his people for free use. It should be noted that it is mostly used by members of local saving groups to gather and save their money as well as the youths for football.
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Dr. Rutahigwa urged people to shun politicians keen on buying their way into political offices explaining those who have individual interests that will not benefit them to get better services.
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Akankwatsa Enos Kayanda, the Rukungiri district commissioner for scouts stated that as part of their agreement with Dr. Rutahigwa, they agreed that residents could only use the area for gathering and physical activities, not to build structures, cut down trees or graze animals from therein.
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Twongirwe Darius, Abaho Peter and Ahimbisibwe Charles some of the youths expressed gratitude to Dr. Elisa Rutahigwa for considering them, given that they lacked a place to play football. Additionally, other locals informed our reporter that they used to spend a lot of money renting space for their meetings, but now that Dr. Rutahigwa has helped them with this land, they will have to preserve it.
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