Aisha Sekindi
Ugandan Legislator
Aisha Sekindi (born 4 December 1970) is a Ugandan educator and legislator. As of February 2022, she serves as Uganda's Minister of State for Water and the woman representative for Kalungu district in Uganda's eleventh parliament. She replaced Hon. Ronald Kibuule who handed over the office in July 2021. She held the same position in Uganda's tenth parliament. Politically, she is affiliated to the National Resistance Movement under whose ticket she contested in the 2016 general election, achieving victory over Aisha Naluyati Waligo of the Democratic Party Uganda (DP).
Quotes
edit- 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,”
- Political differences should not prevent you from the bigger agenda of pursuing the national interest of development and harmony
- 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
- 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 may think that young people do not support the government yet it may be our fault for not reaching out to them. As a result, resources meant to help them sometimes end up in the pockets of technocrats.
- we are happy to score our major aim considering feedback. From here, we shall keep in touch and follow up on issues raised by the youth to assure proper accountability on ground.
