Samanya Daphine Draza Pledges to Reduce the Unemployment Rate in Arua City.

Story by Osuta Yusuf.
Arua City.
30-6-2025.

📸: Some of the Youths who crowded this morning to listen to Arua City Woman MP Candidate, Samanya Daphine Draza. Photo by Our News Reporter, Osuta Yusuf.

The Arua City Woman MP Aspirant, Samanya Daphine Draza has promised to reduce the Youth unemployment in the city through lobbying for factories if she is elected to become the woman MP, 2026 - 2031.

📸: Samanya Daphine Draza, Arua City Woman MP Aspirant.

While addressing the Youths of Arua Central Division this morning, Monday 30-6-2025, the youthful Samanya Daphine who is a teacher by profession, testified and spoke to the pain of the Youths who are facing biting poverty and joblessness in the newly created regional City.
“Look at some of the districts in WestNile, like Nebbi District, Maracha District, and Arua District who elected good Women MPs and they have established for them skilling centers and they are also donating over 5M Shs each group to empower Saccos”, Daphine explained while promising to do the same for the people of Arua City if she is elected.

📸: A Youth leader in Nsambya North Cell, Sebby Muhammad. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter.

Sebby Muhammad, a Youth leader in Nsambya North Cell, regretted the negligence and abandonment of the youth by some of the elected leaders in Arua City.
“They aren't supporting us through lobbying for factories and other projects that can employ us, the Youths, but they end up labeling us as thieves and calling the security operatives to chase and harass us”, Sebby painfully stated.
When asked why they are yearning for change as Young people, Sebby quickly pointed at Samanya Daphine Draza as the politician who can easily address the youth's challenges because she is also a young person and she knows what it means.

📸: A youth with an alias name, Potato addressing the gathering. Photo by Our News Reporter Osuta Yusuf.

A youth with an alias name, Potato from Chongolea cell, described the woman MP Candidate Samanya Daphine Draza as a politician with potential and capacity to reorganize and empower the youth in Arua City.
“We have been working and campaigning for some of the leaders in Arua City, but they haven't helped to address our communal problems”, aka Potato noted amidst handclaps from the crowd, and he requested Daphine to lobby for them a health centre, if she is elected to become their woman MP.

📸: Grace Okwai, a Mother. Photo by Our News Reporter.

Unlike the majority of the people who spoke positively towards the event, Grace Okwai, a mother in Nsambya North Cell, castigated politicians in Arua City for making a lot of promises to the voters during campaigns, but they don't fulfill them if elected.
“The experience of the several leaders we elected in the past years has taught us that politicians can have sweet words to mobilize votes but once they are elected, they disappear for many years”, Grace testified while urging the voters to be careful in choosing their leaders.

However, Daphine Draza promised never to disappoint the voters once she is elected to become the Woman MP of Arua City.

The Arua City Woman MP race has attracted three potential candidates, thus; Hon Osoru Mourine the incumbent, Samanya Daphine Draza and Sheila Obia who are all contesting in the NRM Party primary election scheduled to take place in 16-7-2025 and thereafter the NRM party flag bearer will proceed to contest against other Independent and opposition party candidates who will get nominated to contest in the February 2026 general elections.

Stay tuned.