By Johnson Kanyesige
The NRM Presidential candidate, Yoweri Museveni, has emphasized the importance of peace and stability in Uganda.
While campaigning in Koboko at Ombaci public grounds on Tuesday afternoon, Museveni explained that the relative peace being experienced in the Country over the last 40 years has enabled the NRM and Uganda to experience growth.
Museveni is in West Nile on a campaign trail to seek re-election as president on the NRM ticket after being in the same position for the last 40 years.
According to Museveni, the people of Koboko, W. Nile, and Uganda should guard the peace they have experienced so as not to take the country backwards again, as it was in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, some of the NRM and local leaders in Koboko have commended the government of NRM for the relative peace they are and the region has experienced over the years.
From 1979, when the then-president Idi Amin was overthrown, West Nile was thrown into turmoil with more insurgencies experienced during the rebellion groups and also the LRA insurgency.
This then led to the demand for the return of peace to return and resettle the people who had fled to the then Zaire and Sudan-now South Sudan. As the presidential candidates traverse the country for votes, the urge for peace has remained at the center of their campaigns.
