Rwotlonyo Stands Firm for Amolatar as Propaganda Fails to Derail Arwotcek Seed School Truth
By Okidi Patrick
AMOLATAR — While others trade in rumour and identity politics, Amolatar Resident District Commissioner Francis Okello Odoki Rwotlonyo has chosen the harder, nobler path: truth, calm and service.
In a district where emotions over the stalled Arwotcek Seed Secondary School have been deliberately inflamed, Rwotlonyo has emerged as the steady voice of reason — reminding residents that development is built not on noise, but on facts, patience and unity.
The facts, as the RDC has ably laid them out, are clear and verifiable. Arwotcek Seed Secondary School is a public traditional secondary school earmarked for development under Uganda’s Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers (UgIFT) programme, the government-World Bank partnership that is transforming secondary education in sub-counties that had none.
Under UgIFT, a school receives two classroom blocks, science and ICT laboratories, a library, staff housing and a sports pitch. It is a national programme, governed by national funding realities — not by district gossip.
Rwotlonyo has explained what the propagandists must understand: that 100 of the 120 traditional secondary schools were renovated by government, and that Arwotcek is among the 20 new seed schools still awaiting their turn. That is not neglect. That is sequencing under limited resources.
To any fair-minded person, that is government working as it should: acknowledging a shortfall, explaining it, and committing to a remedy.
Yet instead of welcoming that assurance, some voices in Amolatar have chosen to makenit political as it was intentionally delayed —
It is precisely this politics of identity and propaganda that commissioner Francis Rwotlonyo has courageously condemned.
“Politics of identity and propaganda will not help the people of Amolatar District,” he told the media, in remarks that deserve to be quoted in full in every trading centre and village in the district.
He is right. Amolatar does not need division. It does not need leaders who profit from anger. It needs cooperation between residents, local leaders and technical teams — the very cooperation Rwotlonyo has consistently preached to the Wanahinchi.
For those who have followed his tenure, this is nothing new. RDC Rwotlonyo has repeatedly insisted that leadership is a sacred calling, not a personal privilege. He has demanded humility and integrity from public officials. He has put service above self-interest. In the Etam saga, he has lived that creed — absorbing public frustration, cooling tempers, and redirecting a heated debate back to constructive dialogue.
The RDC has not hidden from the community. He has not run from questions. He has stood before the media and the people, explained the parliamentary process, and vouched that central government is aware and responsive.
As Amolatar waits for the next financial year, the choice before its people is stark: follow the merchants of propaganda who offer only anger, or follow the path of unity and engagement championed by Rwotlonyo — a path that has already secured a firm ministerial commitment to prioritise Etam.
The school will be built. The truth has already been told. And in this moment, Arwotcek seed secondary in Amolatar District will be in the bext lot of the 20 remaining seed schools to be worked on.However a 61 year old man in Arwotcek village said Amolatar are blessed and fortunate to have an RDC like Rwotlonyo who refuses to be bullied by noise, and who insists to speak the truth and implement real government program bh having the districtvat heart.
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