East Africa Gazette
Lwengo
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has contributed Shs 200million for the construction of Lwengo Muslim District Headquarters and Health Center IV.
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“Since am part of the government I will contribute Shs 200 million. If that money is not enough you will let me know to add on depending on what you will have collected,” President Museveni said.
President Museveni made the remarks during the fundraising drive on Thursday 21st March2024 for the construction of Lwengo Muslim District Headquarters and Health Center IV at Mbirizi, Lwengo Town Council.
President Museveni said the fundraising would have made more sense if all the homesteads in Lwengo had stable incomes and we would be able to contribute relatively large sums of money to the project to be constructed easily and quickly.
“I am happy that the Muslim community is building a health center and headquarters for their own administrative Center and that is why we are here to support them,” Museveni said.
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“Fundraising means you all have to contribute but now if you have got a few rich people that is not real fundraising. In the 1950s, my father Mzee Amos Kaguta and his colleagues in our village in Ntungamo used to drink local beer at only Sh5 and here they had to contribute equally to buy the local beer” Le alluded.
He explained that we can contribute what we can, but it would have made more impact if all homesteads had stable incomes, and we have something big.”
President also permitted the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) Engineers Brigade to carry out the construction works of the project worth Shs1 billion.
Lwengo District Woman Member of Parliament, Cissy Namujju UPDF to be involved in the project.
President Museveni was grateful to the people of Lwengo who had listened to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) wealth creation message.
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“NRM has a clear treatment for the problems of the people of Uganda right from the beginning. But people were not listening to our message for a longtime, when you listen,
Museveni said at Kiswera, I observed many gardens of people with coffee, and I was very happy it is quite different from the past. You remember we were here during the fighting but very few had coffee.
He thanked Col. Nsamba. Who was injured when we attacked Kabamba Barracks in the1980s in Kikandwa forest near Semuto.
He lost his arm, but has done a good job in distributing coffee in this area and all those people who have listened to our message and people must be involved in the money economy.
“Through the Parish Development Model (PDM), we are saying that, in all Parishes, all families must engage in food security and also wealth creation through working for money.”
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But if you have land, do commercial agriculture and food security. I have already done it in many parts of Uganda where I started. In the cattle corridor, we introduced dairy farming. You will find family by family engaged in food security and also income generation, he said.
“The NRM leaders should emulate this. I have done it in Kisozi because there I have got nine villages near me in both Gomba and Sembabule covering with over 2,035 homesteads
The President further highlighted that the PDM money was calculated, and the government knew very well that it would serve its purpose of bringing 39 percent of Ugandans still working for the stomach to join the money economy.
“Now our “kibaro” is if we give you Shs1m, suppose you target one acre of coffee, we calculated that you need 450 seedlings to cover one acre of Robusta coffee. We knew that to get 450 seedlings you will needShs180,000 that time. And in the Shs1m, you will use Shs180,000 to buy the seedlings and you remain with Shs820,000 to do other things like digging the holes.
That Shs1m had a purpose, and we are sending Shs100m per Parish per year. That means in 4 years we would cover 400 homes,” President Museveni revealed.
“I want you, the NRM leaders, to go home by home to know how many have been covered and how many are remaining because we do not want spectators, we want players. Unlike in the football game, we have wealth creation.
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He explained that everybody on the economy side must be a player. That is the medicine for poverty through commercial agriculture with ekibaro.
President Museveni further disclosed that people without land or not interested in agriculture, can go into other projects like artisanship to create wealth.
We have Emyooga such as carpentry, welding, tailoring and bakery. So, we have now put for you that arrangement also based at the constituency. Services like boda bodas and hotels are also part of the Emyooga.
The President urged for free education in government schools that was started as Universal Primary education UPE in 1997 but as heard from one of the residents that some of the people did not understand the meaning of this free education.
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“We knew there were very many families which cannot afford education. That is why we said if parents cannot afford, let the government pay for their children.Let the children study for free. We have discussed it in government.” He noted
In Covid, we had a lot of challenges; we could not get tough on those who were fighting our policy but where we are going,we are going to get time to insist on free education for children in government schools,” he said.
If you have got bona bagagawale through commercial agriculture and others through Emyooga, children going to school, children of the rich can go to where they can pay.
The outgoing Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja commended President Museveni for being able to unite Ugandans irrespective of their different tribes and religions.
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“Seeing people here from different religious denominations is not by chance, it is because of you. We no longer have differences in tribes and religions. Thank you very much sir” Ssempijja said.
The Lwengo District Woman Member of Parliament (MP), Cissy Namujju thanked President Museveni for his visionary leadership that has led to the development of Lwengo and Uganda as a whole.
The Lwengo District LC5 Chairperson, Kitatta Ibrahim, thanked him for his support toward the district.
We thank you for giving us a specialized hospital in Lwengo and once the construction works are done, we shall invite you to commission it, Kitatta said.
Mufti of Uganda, Shaban Ramadan Mubajje thanked the President for his contribution toward the development of Uganda.
“God blessed you with knowledge and vision to see far and that is why Uganda is where it is at the moment. You managed to fight the killer diseases, promoted education and fought poverty, among other attributes” Mubajje said.
The Minister of State or Microfinance, Haruna Kasolo, Bukoto South (MP) Twaha Kagabo, Bukoto West (MP) Muhammad Muyanja Ssentayi, Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) Chairperson, Prof. Muhammad Lubega Kisambira, local Government leaders, religious leaders among others.
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