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Salam TV meets Bunyoro Elders Ahead of Omumanyi wa Salam TV Bunyoro-Tooro Region Finals By Immam Sadiq Taremwa Salam TV has visited elderly leaders in Bunyoro ahead of the Omumanyi wa Salam TV Bunyoro-Tooro Region Finals, 7th Edition 2026, happening tomorrow at Bwikya Hill, Hoima City, from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The Omumanyi wa Salam TV is a quiz competition that Salam TV started in 2021 as a platform where people compete among themselves and win prizes to encourage people to keep thinking and conducting research in various areas. For the last five years, the competition has been conducted in the studios of Salam TV in Kampala. During the 6th Edition, management decided to make it a national platform that can benefit the whole country, extending it to different regions with different prizes and sensitization programs that have touched people's lives. Every edition comes with new ideas and innovations that positively change lives through sensitization and mobilization. The ongoing 7th Edition 2026 has increased the coverage from 6 regions to 8 regions to bring the competition closer to the people for easy access. While in Hoima City making final arrangements, the Managing Director of Salam TV and Salam Charity, Hajji Karim Kaliisa, visited different elders in Hoima, including Hajji Uthuman Kitunzi, one of the elders in the region and a retired Chief Magistrate, Sheikh Badru Balikagira and Sheikh Bitamazire, who have contributed immensely to the development of Islam in the region and beyond. The visits were aimed at informing them about the program and inviting them to witness the Omumanyi wa Salam TV regional winner going home with a fully funded Umrah pilgrimage courtesy of Tawakal Travel and Salam TV. Sheikh Badru Balikagira appreciated the great work done by Salam TV in developing communities and called upon the general public to always support and encourage the station whenever called upon. According to Hajji Kaliisa, the quiz competition and gifts are not the major reason for Omumanyi wa Salam TV, but rather a platform to attract people for socio-economic development through programs such as Smart Community, digital literacy, and religious trainings, among others, that have helped change lives across the country. “We have so far concluded Busoga Region and Eastern Region. After Bunyoro-Tooro Region, we shall head to Northern, West Nile, Ankole-Kigezi, Greater Masaka, Central Region and conclude with the grand finale that always takes place in Kampala, where all regional winners are gathered to compete for major prizes including cars, Hajj pilgrimages, land titles, among others, that completely change people's lives,” Hajji Kaliisa said. He thanked all sponsors who have moved with Salam TV from the previous editions up to the 7th Edition and welcomed more corporate companies to partner with the station for community development and mobilization through sensitization.

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Salam TV Managing Director Hajji Karim Kaliisa has met Muslim elders in Hoima to brief them on the Omumanyi wa Salam TV competition, whose Bunyoro-Tooro regional winner will receive a fully funded Umrah pilgrimage.

Salam TV has met Muslim elders in Hoima City ahead of the Bunyoro-Tooro regional finals of its Omumanyi wa Salam TV quiz competition, scheduled for Saturday, October 17, 2026.

The seventh edition of the competition will take place at Bwikya Hill in Hoima City from 8am to 1pm, with the regional winner set to receive a fully funded Umrah pilgrimage courtesy of Tawakal Travel and Salam TV.

While in Hoima for final preparations, Salam TV and Salam Charity Managing Director Hajji Karim Kaliisa visited several elders, including retired Chief Magistrate Hajji Uthuman Kitunzi, Sheikh Badru Balikagira and Sheikh Bitamazire.

The visits were intended to brief the elders about the competition and invite them to witness the regional finals.

Sheikh Balikagira commended Salam TV for its contribution to community development and urged the public to support the station whenever called upon.

Launched in 2021, Omumanyi wa Salam TV is a quiz competition designed to encourage participants to expand their knowledge, conduct research and compete for prizes.

For its first five years, the competition was held at Salam TV's studios in Kampala. During the sixth edition, management decided to expand it into a national platform, taking the competition and related community sensitisation programmes to different regions.

The seventh edition has expanded coverage from six to eight regions, with organisers seeking to bring the competition closer to participants while extending its community development initiatives.

Kaliisa said the prizes were not the competition's primary objective, but rather a way of attracting people to programmes focused on socioeconomic development, digital literacy and religious education.

He cited initiatives such as Smart Community, digital literacy training and religious programmes as some of the activities through which Salam TV seeks to improve lives across the country.

“We have so far concluded Busoga Region and Eastern Region. After Bunyoro-Tooro Region, we shall head to Northern, West Nile, Ankole-Kigezi, Greater Masaka, Central Region and conclude with the grand finale that always takes place in Kampala, where all regional winners are gathered to compete for major prizes including cars, Hajj pilgrimages, land titles, among others, that completely change people's lives,” Kaliisa said.

The grand finale in Kampala will bring together regional winners to compete for major prizes, including cars, Hajj pilgrimages and land titles.

Kaliisa thanked sponsors who have supported the competition since its earlier editions and called on more corporate organisations to partner with Salam TV in community development, mobilisation and public sensitisation.

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