As Uganda is planning to celebrate Heroes Day Sunday this week, Uganda will commemorate Heroes Day in Gomba District.

The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) has asked government of Uganda to facilitate effectively and establish more schools and hospitals as well as ensuring equal access to opportunities.

While addressing the media, UPC Sharon Ayat Arach revealed that is when a secure Uganda can be a reality as opposed to what is at hand today.
Ayat hinted that the Luwero triangle as known before, which comprised the old
districts of Mpigi, Mubende and Luwero are potentially a very rich agricultural belt.

Currently, farmers are faced with the challenges of marketing their produce and access to affordable loans to facilitate their business is a big problem across the country.

The highly promised Agro-processing industries are still lagging.
The poor road network is another obstacle. Those which are built and being rehabilitated are substandard.
“This calls for more efforts to improve the movement of people and their goods. There is massive unemployment as a result of the youth bulge and this has forced us to look for employment in Middle east states under unclear terms of service which have landed the majority of our people in employment disputes.This demands a lot of modifications in our education system to focus on producing job creators rather than job seekers”, she said.

She added, “We need to skill our youths in practical work and position them as the vanguard of our socio-economic development.”

The political journey is still very bumpy. As 2026 comes closer, we are yet to see the implementation of the urgently needed electoral reforms as recommended by both the Supreme Court and other relevant stakeholders.
“This makes it hard to carry out political programs as we strive to level our democratic space. The Public Order
Management Act (POMA) is still a challenge towards holding political
meetings and rallies due to its misinterpretation. This should be given
Peaceful campaigns and elections. The
utmost attention in a bid to have
delayed women’s council, LC I and LCll elections are yet to be conducted. This is unfair and requires political Parties more time to crisscross the country and prepare our electorate”, she expressed.

UPC has highlighted the need to come together and work for a common cause and promote the interests of our people to achieve the key objectives of our theme for the ‘Heroes Day’ that
implores us to “hail our heroes; a secure Uganda is now a reality”.