The situation in Karamoja, especially in Kotido and Kaabong, is increasingly alarming. The disturbing images emerging from the region demand our collective compassion and urgent action.
I thank H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for his rapid intervention and deployment of food relief. However, I believe we must now scale up the national response and widen the clarion call.
Government, development partners, humanitarian organisations, the private sector, religious institutions and all Ugandans of goodwill must rally together. This is a moment for national solidarity. No Ugandan should face hunger in silence when, together, we have the capacity to respond.
Karamoja is Uganda. Its pain is our pain. Its people are our people. Let us act urgently, generously and together.