ACCU: Anti Corruption Coalition Uganda

The slow process  has resulted into people queuing up for long hours and consequently discouraging some would be voters whose patience is better tried else where. This of course has also been a scape goat to a category of Ugandans who don’t seem to value elections by preferring to stay away from the entire process.

Interestingly they always have similar excuses for their indifference towards exercising their political and civil rights. They always blurt out that tired line, ‘why bother when the elections have already been decided’.

A recognizable number of Ugandans are increasingly making apathy a lifestyle to almost everything, from corruption fight to now elections and forgetting that it’s only them that can change a situation they undeniably have resigned to. They forget that their vote counts and can contribute to leaders of moral integrity and good ethical values; a leader who is accountable to his /her people, a servant but not a sovereign.

There is no better way to cause change in leadership than through a democratic process of a ballot. This is where Ugandans who cry foul of poor leadership should ensure participation by registering and updating their details to be eligible for elections. Unfortunately even those who know the power of the ballot have decided to make this process someone else’s business. Some if not majority being victims of bad governance that has engulfed our nation just because poor choices were made by voting in leaders with selfish interests or one preferred to stay away and not participate in the election process.

This is the time to cause change, make meaningful contribution to our nation. There is no better way of exercising patriotism than now. Let’s usher in credible leaders through the ballot system and flush out the corrupt lot. Let us democratically elect leaders whose past records are not tainted by corruption and theft, whose personality is not questionable and whose mandate is to serve but not to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituencies.

If you want to improve service delivery, like pothole free roads, decongesting the city, getting rid of fake products that have flooded our market, reduction of filth and garbage in the city, have hospitals equipped with medicines and medical personel, avail affordable tariffs on consumables such as water, electricity, fuel and airtime, then make use of your ballot to vote for a leader who will serve above self!