President Museveni has asked the people of Omoro District to direct their energies on fighting household poverty instead of demanding for better roads.
Museveni made the remarks while campaigning for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate in the Omoro County by-election, Mr Andrew Ojok, at Odek Primary School yesterday.
He was reacting to demands tabled by Omoro chairman Douglas Peter Okello Okao regarding the tarmacking of Gulu-Moroto Road.
Okello asked the government to increase funds allocated to the district so that they can revamp the poor road network.
But Mr Museveni, who in 2019 while attending the thanksgiving party of Omoro Woman MP Catherine Lamwaka, promised to tarmac the same road, said tarmacking the Gulu-Moroto Road will only make sense once people have chased away poverty.
He however, reassured the people of tarmacking the road in future.
President Museveni later visited the home of the late Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, and laid a wreath on his grave before proceeding to Opit Primary School playground where he held the second campaign rally.
During the campaign, Museveni pleaded with voters to elect Mr Ojok whom he said would accomplish his father’s dreams.
He also promised to contribute an unspecified amount of money towards the Jacob Oulanyah Trust Fund.
