The Executive Director of the Uganda Media Centre Mr Ofwono Opondo Podel has rallied the youth to embrace and understand the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party ideology to bridge the gap between the old and new.
“If we are to bridge the gap between the old and the new, then you young people have to understand what NRM does. You must seek for knowledge that the old have,\u201d Opondo said adding thus ; \u201cAs a liberation movement, he adds, our mission and vision should be to forge a way forward around our senior party leader and founding father, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as well as the party senior leaders in causing harmony and consensus among all party members despite the demographic gap.\u201d
One of the NRM party\u2019s outspoken ideologue was delivering a lecture on a topic; \u201cBridging the gap between the old and the new\u201d to the NRM university leaders who were gathered at party headquarters at Plot 10, Kyadondo Road in Kampala.
He said that NRM membership has always been multi-generational and multi-cultural and the young and old have always worked together.
\u201cBridging the gap between the old and young is a misnomer given the nature of our party\u2019s methods of work which accommodate every demographic dividend. The NRM Party has always been a multi-generational organization ever since it took over power in 1986,\u201d Ofono Opondo recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He explained that the NRM has been able to harness elements that were previously opposed to the party by adopting a broad-based method of work that accommodates people of all party affiliations, \u201cThat’s bridging the gap in itself.\u201d He, therefore, asked the youth to understand NRM methods of work that is very tolerant to the opposition.
on the issue of unemployment among the youth, Opondo said that the economy has been expanded to cater for all categories of people, educated and uneducated.
\u201cThere are very many government initiatives to create jobs for young people. The ’emyooga’, parish development model and youth livelihood programme are all in place. People can create their wealth, especially the youth. NRM is trying to create good public services, in health, education and transport,\u201d Podel said.
Veteran journalist Tony Geoffrey Owana who reminded the gathering youth about NRA bush war memoirs said that being a youth is just temporary.
\u201cWe were also very young as you. Most of the liberators took over leadership positions in their youthful age. We only need to utilize our youthfulness like what these senior party cadres did\u201d. Owana said.
The CEO of Owanapaedia castigated young people for not listening to their seniors, neither do they read deeply to understand the history of the party they support.
\u201cYoung people are fond of not getting interested in history we are telling them. But it is history that informs the present,\u201d Owana adds.
\u201cNRM party itself belongs to the young people. Those who think that old people have dominated jobs should look closely to people in government, they are young.\u201d
He advised the youth to ameliorate the harmful effects of social media that might destroy the NRM party. \u201cThe mystery of misinformation and broad lying is strong. It’s very easy to lie and people believe you. Let us, therefore, learn how to use social media for our survival\u201d.
The NRM party Secretary-General Mr Richard Todwong told the students to understand the party\u2019s methods of work, saying that \u201cdisagreeing openly is important in building party cohesion and consensus\u201d.
\u201cWe can’t avoid internal disagreements; the party is very big, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic with close to 22 million memberships,\u201d Todwong said.
He said that the purpose of the introduction of ideological clinics is to help the public to become change agents in their societies through ideological clarity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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