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By Elijah Khisa
About five (5)5 presidential candidates who include president Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa of NRM, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu of NUP , Nathan James Nandala Mafabi of FDC , Munyagwa Mubarack of CMP and Bulira Frank Kabinga of RPP are scheduled to raid Busoga region on the same day 1st October 2025.
Apart from president Yoweri Museveni Kaguta Tibuhaburwa who is scheduled to officiate at International older person’s day in Jinja city as chief guest the rest of the presidential candidates their schedules are in line with the EC campaign program.
According to the EC presidential campaign program the CMP Lusaniya candidate Mubarack Munyagwa will campaign in Jinja city, the same place where president Yoweri Museveni will officiate at the older person’s international day celebrations.
The EC program indicates that president Museveni is to campaign in Amolatar and Dokolo districts respectively.
While other opposition presidential candidates Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu (NUP) aka Bobi Wine will look for votes in Luuka and Kaliro districts, Nathan Nandala Mafabi (FDC) will be in Iganga and Bulira Frank of RPP will raid Bugiri district.
Political analysts who spoke to The Second Opinion attributed the camping of presidential candidates in Busoga region on the same day as a result of Kadaga’s effect because for the last couple of day her nemesis the speaker of parliament spent days in Busoga districts wooing reportedly splashing cash to her inlaws with attempts to convince them to support NRM.
Speaker Among was in Bugiri municipality, Bugiri rural, Iganga and Kaliro trying to ask Busoga to support the NRM party and vote president Yoweri Museveni in the 2026 general election.
Museveni in Jinja City
Govt Lowers age for SAGE pay from 80 to 65 yrs for elderly persons
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa is scheduled to officiate at the 2025 international Day of older persons on 1st October 2025 in Jinja city according to officials from the ministry of gender labour and social development.
The developments stemmed from a high-level event planning meeting held on Friday 26th September 2025 at the ministry boardroom attended by over 40 stakeholders drawn from government ministries, departments and agencies [MDAs] the civil society organizations [CSO], NGOs and the media among others.
The ministry undersecretary Grace Choda Adong revealed that the national celebrations shall be held in Jinja on 1st October 2025 at which the president is expected to be chef guest of the day as well as thank and recognise several older persons NGOs and CBOs for taking care for the elderly citizens.
Talking about the status of lowering the age for the SAGE beneficiary members, Grace revealed that recently the ministry wrote a cabinet paper requesting the lowering of the age for the SAGE beneficiary members from the current 80 to new 65 years of which was passed and now awaits implementation soon after undergoing budgetary process.
‘Cabinet approved the paper and we are now waiting for parliament to appropriate the resources in the next financial year 2025/2026 for effective implementation ‘noted Grace.
The meeting was told that prior to the national event, the ministry would host a high level national older persons symposium and annual general meeting on 30th September 2025 at the Source of the Nile Resort hotel which would discuss issues affecting the older persons fraternity especially policy matters.
