Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential candidate, Patrick Oboi Amuriat, has made a promised the people of Lango to handle the issue of land grabbing if elected the president in the forthcoming general polls.
Amuriat who was warmly welcomed by residents of Ayabi town council, Kwania district on Sunday, said people in the region are suffering because they have been marginalised by the regime.
Barefoot Amuriat held successful and peaceful rallies in the districts of Dokolo and Kwania after starting his journey with prayers at Lira Cathedral church.
He told the congregation that he came barefoot because he wanted to stand with the vulnerable people having lost his shoes on the day of his nomination.
Amuriat promised to compensate those who lost their cattle during the insurgency by the Lord’s Resistance Army.
“In this campaign, there is a lot of oppression and I understand, we are not surprised and we’ll continue to fight that oppression. I understand the challenges the people of Lango face because they are the same challenges the people of Teso where I come from are facing,” said Amuriat.
He added that the people of Teso also lost cattle but all that will be history if he takes over power come 2021 general elections.
“Museveni is a robber. He collected a lot of money to help Ugandans during COVID-19 but to date, he has not given accountability. He instead bought rotten maize flour and gave to only people of Kampala and Wakiso,” he said.
“For the last four years, Mr. Museveni is moving after you because you have been fishing in Lake Kwania which is a God given gift to the people of Kwania and that’s why God never took it anywhere but he brought here,” he added.
He noted that people of Kwania got nothing during the crisis adding that the president also bought yellow bicycles for NRM LC1.
“We are going to be a responsible government. My government is going to give each household Shs100,000 as COVID-19 relief beginning next year May,” Amuriat told voters in Kwania.