Patrick Okidi, Otuke – Hon. Susan Jolly Abeja, the Otuke woman MP, has donated a total of 5,890 hand hoes to the residents of Otuke East constituency in Otuke district to promote farming during the first season. According to her, she is trying to encourage the electorate to engage in early planting using hand hoes, which she says will, in turn, fight household poverty and ensure food security among the Wanahinci.
She urged residents of Otuke to embrace improved agricultural practices to benefit their communities and to adopt good seeds that are friendly to modern climatic changes in order to harvest good yields. Abeja applauded the NRM government for the prevailing peace and stability in the region, unlike in the past when there was insurgency caused by LRA rebels in the region of Lango and Northern Uganda, adding that peace comes along with development.
She also appealed to the people of Lango and the surrounding areas to vote for NRM Party candidates in the 2026 election to realize more development since the NRM government under the leadership of H.E. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has managed to elevate citizens out of poverty and has achieved a lot in terms of development in Uganda.
Abeja was addressing hundreds of residents of Adwari sub-county on Friday while moving from village to village distributing the hand hoes to farmers. The donation was made in fulfillment of her pledge to the locals that every household in Otuke would receive a hand hoe.
However, a section of residents in Otuke district who spoke to our reporter commended Hon. Abeja for her numerous achievements in Otuke district, urging other MPs, especially from the Lango sub-region, to emulate Abeja’s lifestyle and to always sacrifice their wealth for their electorates, like Hon. Acon Julius and Hon. Abeja Susan are doing.
Lucy Ajok, a resident of Adwari sub-county, narrated that Abeja is the only MP in Otuke serving the interests of the people of Otuke compared to previously elected MPs. She asked locals in Otuke to vote for Abeja in 2026. Mariana Akello, a resident of Okwongo town council, applauded Hon. Susan Abeja for donating hoes and said God should bless her. Veronica Okullu, a 71-year-old woman from Okwang sub-county, requested the youth to use the hoes they received for productive activities that would bring money to their pockets and to desist from laziness during this rainy season.
