The FDC Party has failed to govern local governments in northern Uganda
Local leaders of Acholi District Councils in Gulu, Pader, and Kitgum were massively given a mandate by the people of these respective districts, on very clear non-NRM policy agenda. Their voting for a DP chairperson in Gulu (Mao) and FDC Chairpersons in Kitgum (Ogwok) and Pader (Odok) signaled a necessary policy change in local governance and the majoir issues of importance to the lives of the people in this region. Personal security and general peace, through a peaceful and negotiated settlement was one of them. Dismantling of the concentration camps and resettling people in their ancestral homesteads was another. Rehabilitation of social and economic infrastructures; schools, dispensaries, water wells and boreholes, roads and anciliary services were among popular policy themes on the lips of our people and in the manifestos of the opposition parties that got themsevles elected to lead Acholi district councils. However, all of these leaders without exception; Mao in Gulu (DP); Ogwok i...