MUKONO – National Unity Platform’s (NUP) Robert Peter Kabanda, the Mukono Municipality mayor-elect, says he is going to prioritise road construction and garbage collection during his five-year term of office.

Kabanda made the pledge this January 28, 2026, morning, shortly after being declared the winner for the seat in a landslide victory, beating four other candidates.

Kabanda, who was declared the winner by Mukono district returning officer Emily Amongin on Wednesday at 4:18am, secured 13,112 votes, with his closest rival of the National Resistance Movement, Micdad Mulimira, getting 5,054 votes.

Incumbent Erisa Mukasa Nkoyoyo (independent) has registered 2,283 votes, while former presidential aspirant Mathew Mutyaba (Independent) and Henry Ssenyonjo (independent) managed to record 37 and 58 votes, respectively.

Kabanda has promised to focus on road construction and garbage collection to make Mukono look like a city before physically acquiring the status.

“As a born of Mukono who later transformed into the leadership right as a youth, growing through all the ladders to a councillor for some years and now chairperson for Mukono Central Division, I have been part of the development which Mukono has so far acquired,” he said.

“Because I know where Mukono is coming from, I know where it is going in terms of development. I acknowledge the people of Mukono for choosing the right leader in me,” Kabanda added. 

A person with both physical and visual disability, Mathew Mutyaba, was among the over 100 Ugandans who showed interest in aspiring for president of Uganda and went ahead to pick the presidential nomination forms, but failed to fulfil the requirements, including seeking the mandatory signatures from the specific percentage of voters across the country.

Mutyaba, therefore, sliced his appetite to the post of Mukono Municipality mayor only to come last with only 37 votes. He formerly contested for Mukono Municipality parliamentary seat, but still things did not go as he had expected.

For Henry Ssenyonjo, he first picked interest in contesting for the post of Mukono Municipality MP but failed to raise the required sh3m fees, hence going for the mayoral office.