NEW YEAR MESSAGE |2026 - From Counsel Kamukama David, Aspirant MP for Workers 2026–2031

By  Counsel Kamukama David 

 

I speak to you at the dawn of 2026, not as a commentator on labour affairs, but as a candidate presenting himself for judgment. I come before the workers’ delegates of Uganda with clarity of purpose and a single intention: to earn your confidence, your mandate, and your vote to represent workers in the 12th Parliament. This is not an appeal to emotion alone; it is an appeal to reason, experience, and constitutional duty.

 

We enter 2026 with an undeniable truth: Ugandan workers carry the economy, yet they bear its heaviest burdens. Wages chase inflation and never catch it. Contracts are signed and dishonoured. Workplaces remain unsafe, pensions uncertain, and collective bargaining routinely frustrated. These are not accidents of nature; they are failures of law in action. A Republic that benefits from labour but neglects its protection is living on borrowed stability.

 

This year must mark a turning point. Workers need representation that understands power, policy, and jurisprudence, representation that knows how to draft, scrutinize, and enforce. The next parliament must stop treating labour as an afterthought and begin treating it as the constitutional pillar it is. We must strengthen labour inspection, secure freedom of association, guarantee timely remuneration, enforce occupational safety, modernize social security, and protect workers in both formal and informal economies. These are achievable reforms, but only with firm, informed, and fearless leadership.

 

I offer myself to you as legal medicine for workers’ problems, not slogans, not sympathy, but remedies. I am asking you, the delegates entrusted with workers’ voices, to make a deliberate choice: to send to Parliament a representative who will litigate for workers on the legislative floor, who will argue with evidence, confront injustice with law, and negotiate from a position of knowledge and courage.

 

Your vote on 19th January 2026 is not ceremonial; it is strategic. It determines whether workers will be heard or merely referenced. I ask for your support, your mandate, and your trust to carry the workers’ cause with discipline, integrity, and unwavering advocacy.

Let 2026 be remembered as the year workers chose clarity over convenience, law over lamentation, and courage over compromise. Together, let us make Parliament work for those who work for Uganda

The Author is An Aspirant MP for Workers 2026–2031