"From the feedback, our participants are very positive about our message of promoting love for the country. This is the element that has been missing among them due to bad advice from some leaders. As a result, some end up hating their country."

"We as political leaders have also done a lot to confuse our people and this must change. The NRM came with a mission of uniting our people irrespective of their religious, cultural and political associations"

"Political differences should not prevent you from the bigger agenda of pursuing the national interest of development and harmony"

""Let us not focus on our political party affiliations but on the well-being of our people. Let’s not be divided through political party lines.”"

"The constitution names legislation as the chief duty of a Member of Parliament, but this should be beefed up with specialized refresher training. I would also like to ensure that members can comfortably contribute to the debates in the House."

"When you look at the experience that I have, it is super and it will fit very well in the role of Deputy Speaker"

"Vote for someone who has integrity, who is impartial and who will improve the quality of debate in Parliament and who will consider welfare of staff of Parliament."

"If we cannot even give a birth certificate to a child being born, how shall we be able to track their growth? We need to empower resilience which will help our people survive when we have a problem. If social protection grants were well managed, in future we would not want SAGE"

"The government ought to support the communities to revive the installation of granaries to ensure food security in tough times, carry out neighbourhood watch in helping to upbring children and also the mentorship sessions that took place in homes."

"To sustain these programmes and achieve the set goals, the government needs to come up with one single registry to capture data of all Ugandans being born so that they are monitor in order to be enrolled in these programmes when their age permits."

"As Africans and Ugandans we had a rich culture in social protection. When one family lost their dear one, the other people would carry food to help them but today, people will come to be supported by the family that has lost"

"Let’s see how the authorities handle the situation. I call upon fellow Ugandans to be vigilant at all times, we cannot go on dying like animals. Vigilance is key.For God and my Country."

"What most of you regard as mere love messages should know that this was not just love messages. This boy was being used by some selfish individuals in a mission to lure me with love and kill me."

"If it was for love, I have had many even those younger than Brian and much older, but this was none like other with intentions to harm me."

"I endured fear and suffering due to those who sent Brian to trap and kill me. Nebanda was killed in such a way. I didn’t have to wait to be killed, as a precautionary measure I had to seek the solace of authorities to protect myself, my family and constituents from horror."

"Before you go on judging me and scolding me, I want to let you know that there’s more than meets the eye in all this saga that has turned out to be a national issue."

"I have noticed that many middle income earners in Uganda are reluctant to interact with the less fortunate."

"“I want to change their lives and make them better. My people come first in whatever I do."

"Whether you like it or not, you cannot do everything on your own. You have to consult and get assistance from others."

"But most of the time, I am just concentrating on my crafts. I am also venturing into making reusable pads to help my women and girls."

"It is about the brain."

"My coming to parliament and becoming the president of the IPU youth body is an opportunity to voice the concerns of young people."

"I want to tackle youth unemployment in my district by establishing small income- generating projects."

"I am prepared for those challenges that MPs face, though there is a lot of intimidation, most of them think I’m young. But all I can tell the fellow youth out there—it’s not the body that works, it’s not the age that works, but it’s the brain and the knowledge that one has.”"

"I’m a Christian, I don’t booze. I don’t take alcohol. My free time is for the Bible and for reading my novels. That’s how I stay. That’s how my life is.”"

"I can’t tell now because I’m not yet state parliament and I don’t know the challenges that I will face. It’s only after getting to parliament and I will see the outcomes and the challenges that I will face there"

"Age does not matter, it’s not the age that works, it’s the brain and the knowledge that one has."

"I have seen the hussle our people in Tororo go through and I want to use my experience and skills to bring positive change. I believe that with unity and compassion, we can build a better Tororo."

"You want to be a leader but can you also put in mind that you need to lead people who're working. Let's hold on with campaigns until rightful time."

"One of the many reasons am coming in is to ensure that Tororo people coexist in unity for prosperity. We shouldn't have a woman member of Parliament who takes side. She must be a mother to all"

"I have done all my roles of representing my people. I have sponsored 3 private members bill but i am aware that in every election, you must have opponents. I always face like six women each election, so the five is not a threat to me."

". I am sure and I have evidence that someone who was [HIV] positive turned negative after prayers"

"We advocated also for a special fund to be put for the women who suffered during the war. And it is in the agreement. On that it is not signed. Each time I would go to the rebel camp, the LRA, everyone would want to talk to me. So, that shows that they value the woman as a mother."

"he gave me a lot of courage. But I had a lot of fear from the government because at the initial stage the President himself called me on the phone and told me to get out of Juba."

"The fear which I had, the stigma which I had was that wherever I could come back, I was not be free with the community. I know my children were traumatized because one of my eldest daughters asked me, of all places, why did you go to the other side? I explained to her and said you know we want peace for the grandmothers, the grandfathers, they have got to be alright and there is no problem so she understood."

"It was a very difficult task and very difficult to move in the community up to now because then, you know all this period they say, Kony is a killer, is a terrorist, you know this and that, and one would feel that if you go there immediately, you are killed."

"Many commercial people wanted favors, to give them import or export licenses but some of us were not easy to bend. We favoured Africans who came up like James Mulwana who was just an ordinary struggling Ugandan. We gave these people favorable licensing terms to encourage them to also come up in business."

"UDC actually became the center where young and upcoming managers were developed. We didn’t have human resource well trained in management, but companies were very well managed. There was very minimum corruption."

"The civil service was very strong and terms and conditions of employment were very favorable. I worked in the licensing department under the Ministry of Commerce, which was chaired by the Jayant Madhvani (the eldest son of Muljibhai Madhvani)"

"First was the deliberate development of the economic arm of the government, Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) to strategically develop agro based industries, to boost agricultural production, to create employment for our people."

"You found pictures of maize on the trees to remind people that if you did not vote for Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), then you wanted to prolong the colonial rule in Uganda."

"We can unite if we feel the pain of our people but if we don’t feel the pain of our people, then we can fight among ourselves. I want to tell the opposition to come together. We should challenge the governance if it is poor. You see if FDC was going to be in power, there must also be strong opposition to check on them."

"We should get ourselves together. We should be wise enough and know that (the death of FDC is being caused) by somebody else."

"The wisdom is not hiring goons to come and incite people. Where do they get money from for hiring these goons? We have been struggling with the issue of finances but now you see them hiring goons"

"Uganda should not be captured by just a family where everything is the family in charge. Ugandans should be in charge of their country."

"If Ugandans think we should go unconstitutional, then we are going to see all the parties destroyed. What we try to address is just the symptoms. The real root causes are still untouched. We need to address the root causes of the problem."

"The Constitution is to ensure good governance and to always challenge the ruling party. The ruling party has to govern the country for the people of Uganda. It is constitutional that we are in the multiparty dispensation and it doesn’t mean that you have to kill all other parties."

"There’s politics going on but this is not the time. We need to be more cognisant of the fact that many people don’t have jobs and many people are struggling to earn a living.""

"I am still a mother; my children still need a mum. That has been one of my strengths, because I know they need me."

"That control of being able to read books is why I am doing the exercise. I want to build my strength so I can sit down and just read my own books.""