The updating of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) membership register has kicked off in the various villages in the country.
The exercise was launched by NRM National Chairman and President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta, at the party headquarters last month.
The update and registration will run from today, March 13, 2023, to March 17, 2024. There will be a display of the NRM register in all 72,000 villages.
According to Richard Todwong, the Secretary General of NRM, the existing register has been cleaned, and only 11.4 million out of the 17 million were maintained.
“Last-minute conversions from other political parties have to be scrutinised carefully before being registered as NRM members, and the villagers should confirm that such persons have been pro-NRM in the NRM village activities.” Museveni said.
“Mobilisation, holding meetings, and all those other efforts will be very easy if you go back to the NRM principles. The principles of the NRM are a diagnosis of the problems in Uganda. Those principles are at first a diagnosis; what is this Uganda suffering from? And then a prescription. Therefore, as you mobilise, first of all, understand these principles very clearly. That is why you, the leaders, must be different from the followers. A follower doesn’t have to understand the depth of the matter; he needs a summary,” Museveni said.
Adding “Unlike in the past, where we used to update the register at the headquarters, the party shall have sub-regional data centres after collecting data from the villages, which is compiled at the sub-regional data centres before being forwarded to the party headquarters”.
