By Felix Oketcho
The Nrm Planning committee has kicked off planning session for the forth coming NRM Delegates’ Conferences slated for 20th to 28th August at Kololo ceremonial ground.
The NRM Secretariat officials, staff of the office of the National Chairman and security officials held an inaugural meeting of about 250 members of the steering committees to assess the progress and discuss strategies on how to pull off a successful one-week marathon of party activities that will take place at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds.
The conference will attract over 25,000 leaders right from the sub-county level, up to the national level.
In a meeting coordinated by the NRM Secretary General, Rt. Hon. Richard Todwong, several issues to ensure proper planning, cohesion, and coordination were discussed.
“Today, 12th of August we have inaugurated the organizing committee for the delegates’ conference for the National Resistance Movement Party. The committees are set, they are starting their work immediately and by the 20th of this month, we shall start to receive and accredit them,” the Secretary General Todwong said.
He accreditation of leaders will take place at Nakawa ICT Center before they proceed to the conference.
Todwong called upon delegates to be orderly during arrivals and during the meetings.
“Only delegates who have been elected and qualify to be members of the conference will be allowed to come. We shall send lists to the districts,” Todwong said.
“My expectations from the organizing committee are to do a much better job than before. They should be much more committed to their work and make sure that the conference is successful at all levels,” Todwong said.
The Director of Communication at the NRM Secretariat, Hon. Emmanuel Dombo and the organizing committee spokesperson said the oversight committee will be headed by the party, First Vice National Chairman, Al Hajji Moses Kigongo.
The operations are going to be headed by the Secretary General, Rt.Hon.Richard Todwong and the members of the subcommittees.
The subcommittee meetings shall sit daily to ensure the conferences and the meetings are properly organized to the satisfaction of the delegates.
“We are doing all this on behalf of the national chairman, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, and also president of the Republic of Uganda,” Hon. Dombo said.
Other members of the NRM secretariat top management, including the Deputy Secretary General, Rt. Namayanja Rose Nsereko, National Treasurer, Hon. Amb. Barbara Nekesa, Deputy National Treasurer, Hon.Jacqueline Kyatuhaire, the Director of Mobilization, Dr Rosemary Nansubuga Seninde and Director of Finance and Administration, Hajjat Medina Naham, and the NRM EC Commissioner Driwaru Zaitun addressed the meeting.
