Diary of undecided voter on NUP ‘AI Manifesto’

Entry: 18th October 2025

Ija, this is hot news.

What news Ajakait? What are you on about now?

Ija, you remember when we thought there was no National Unity Platform Party (NUP) Manifesto for the 2026 presidential and parliamentary elections?

Yes, I remember you telling me about the rebuke from Dr. Sarah Bireete of NUP for them not to insult our intelligence, by not having a manifesto …

Ija, let me tell you the hot news about the NUP Manifesto, which we learnt later that it exists.

Ija, let me just read for you an extract from a renowned analyst’s post:

“The author used an online AI-content detection tool called GPTZero (it’s easily available and does not cots too much – try it yourself!) and says: “… the preamble to Kyagulanyi’s Manifesto is … only 5% written by a human, 82% mixed (human and AI) and 13% AI generated …” and presents a link to the Report. Plus: “… the ‘Message from the Party President’, a representation of the candidate himself, runs on only one page and when run into the AI detector, is 82% AI-generated, 13% mixed , and only 5% human!” Source @ Simon Kaheru

I highly recommend, Ija, that you read for yourself Kaheru’s post: “WHEN YOU OBFUSCATE INSTEAD OF MANIFEST, YOU LOSE … SO USE THE MANIFESTO PROPERLY.” Click here to access it free!

Ija, knowing how I feel about plagiarism, I am absolutely deflated learning this. Ija, this is too much!

How now am I expected to recover from this?

Why would I even bother to read more of the AI generated manifesto?

It looks like, my interaction with the NUP manifesto now alleged AI generated has ended with my critic based on a cursory reading. Remember, like I shared with you on 2nd October 2025:

Recommended reading “DIARY OF UNDECIDED VOTER ON NUP & FDC MANIFESTOS.” Click here to access it free!

Many questions I have Ija, but by for now.

Okay, Ajakait, until next time.

Entry: 29th September 2025

Eeeeh okwe, exclaims Ajakait.

I am lost for words, she says.

What now Ajakait, I ask her and she goes:

Let me just borrow the words of that tough talking no nonsense female lawyer.

Which one, I ask? Ajakait gets prickly:

Do you want me to answer your question or not?

Okay, I am listening Ajakait.

“It is a profound insult to the intelligence of the Ugandan voter. How do you ask for a mandate to manage a multi-trillion shillings budget to oversee complex sectors, like agriculture and energy, without a single written-down plan?”

The Explorer quoted her as having said, Ajakait tells me. Again, I ask, who?

You mean you are the only one who does not know that Dr. Sarah Bireete, the founding partner and executive director of Constitutional Governance (CCG), Ajakait asks me with incredulity in her voice.

Of course, I know who she is, but how was I supposed to know it is her you were referring to. Anyway, who or what was she talking about, I ask Ajakait. Excited that she knows more than I do, yes, Ajakait is a bit of a miss know it all, she answers:

She was roasting the National Unity Platform (NUP) Party, which today has launched the Presidential campaign for its candidate, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, without a Party Manifesto.

Whaaaat. Seriously, NUP is the party with the second largest number of members of parliament (MPs) in the 11^th Parliament, the current one. And it could not articulate all the work it has been doing in Parliament?

I mean, what has the NUP led shadow cabinet been doing in Parliament, Ajakait rumbles on. For me, if it was me, Ajakait, that is what would have been in the NUP manifesto. Articulating what NUP opposed in Parliament and what its alternative proposition is.

Meanwhile, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is boasting in its manifesto, ebe it is “protecting the gains as we make a qualitative leap into high middle-income status.” Konye, these people, Ajakait expresses her disbelief, and goes on:

Me, Ajakait, they have already left me behind with their gains and they will leap into high middle-income status without me. Okay, let me just use the state of food security, they will be leaping forward with:

Only 18.8% of households in Karamoja are food secure.
Only 27.7% of households in Teso are food secure.
Only 28.6% of households in West Nile are food secure.
Only 30.2% of households in Acholi are food secure.
Only 31.2% of households in Bukedi are food secure.
Only 36.8% of households in Lango are food secure.
Only 39.8% of households in Madi are food secure.

By the way, don’t think that I making up my own statistics. These are the official findings shared by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics.

Ajakait, I have read the report, the 2024 Uganda National Population and Household Census, and I am aware...

In a genuine democracy, the “State of Food Security in Uganda” would be the major issue of the 2026 election campaigns. The reason, for me, as Ajakait, I like the idea of “money in our pockets” in the title of the manifesto of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).

But even though I have not read it yet, the FDC manifesto also sounds like it is focused on economic growth, just like the one of NRM; and both are thin on addressing inequalities.

Anyway, I have not yet heard of the existence of the manifesto for Alliance for National Transformation (ANT)?

For now, as they are launching their manifestos today, me, Ajakait, I am thinking of the sumptuous food at House of Olel. You want my vote, show me how Ugandans will be food secure during your term of office and reign.

Civic activism rooted in humanism is the mission of blogger Norah Owaraga.

Please tell NUP that anti-president-Museveni-rhetoric is not going to swing an undecided voter like me, Ajakait, let them tell me in a manifesto, what their offer is. Otherwise, I remain an undecided voter up for grabs.

I have to go for now, I interrupt Ajakait, more later …

Dear reader, this post first published 29th October 2025 is updated today, 18th October 2025.