Amony joins race for Otuke district woman MP seat, Makes pledges
Amony who also served as a female youth councilor has confirmed to Radio Qfm that she has already picked nomination form to run in the National Resistance Movement Party primary elections where she seeks to hold the flag
By Frank Oyugi
Kampala 11-06-2025- Stella Maris Amony, a female councilor representing Otuke town council in the district council has joined the race to unseat Otuke district woman MP Susan Abeja in the 2026 elections.
Amony who also served as a female youth councilor has confirmed to Radio Qfm that she has already picked nomination form to run in the National Resistance Movement Party primary elections where she seeks to hold the flag.
“I would like to put the record straight that before I was elected female councilor for Otuke, I also represented the youth in the district council and I have been in touch with the community especially the women and I understand their plights” Amony told our reporter on phone from Uganda’s capital Kampala on Wednesday.
According to Amony her candidature is driven by passion to address barriers in the community such as poor infrastructure, maternal health challenges and also to promote girl child education.
Specifically on the challenges of high rate of school dropout among females, Amony says there is need to establish a girl’s school in Otuke district which is affordable to the community considering the fact that most of them depend solely on a agriculture as a source of economic livelihood.
Once her bid to become the woman Member of Parliament comes to fruition, Amony says she will not spend the shillings 200m usually spent on buying vehicles for Mps on a personal luxuries automobile but instead purchase four brand new ambulances to save lives of expectant mothers in Otuke as well as those referred for further management at the district and Regional referral hospitals.
Amony has also pledged to promote sports among the youth, vocational skills and initiation of projects aimed at poverty alleviation and to cause socio-economic transformation among the community.
It should be noted that both the World Bank and the United States Agency for Development in their previous reports ranked Otuke as one of the poorest district not only in Lango but the entire country.
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