FINANCIAL TENSION is running high in Uganda, extraordinarily so, we’d say. And so it behooves everyone in a position of official responsibility to do everything he or she possibly can to help maintain stability — while avoiding all avoidable provocations – thus President Museveni on Saturday evening started his four day poverty eradication tour of Luweero, where he fought his five-year war to capture state power from 1980-86.
Mr. Museveni on arrival launched a wealth creation drive for Luweero region at Kikunyu Primary School Grounds in Makulubita Sub-county, Katikamu North, Luweero District.
“I will spend the next four days in the region on this particular mission,” he said in a statement.
“We shall in these four days, together with the population, identify and agree on what keys to use to spur development in the area. When you look at a bus, it is a big thing, however it’s a small thing called a key that ignites it and it moves.
“In Ankole sub-region, since they are predominantly cattle keepers, we agreed that the key is cows. I used this to teach them modern animal husbandry, encouraged them to abandon the practice of keeping many cows whose milk yield is low and adopt high breed cows with high milk output. This practice has uplifted household income in the region.
“For Luweero, the key, in my view, is the four-acre model. I will personally inspect farms on foot to ensure that I demonstrate how this model of one acre of coffee or tea, one acre of fruits, one acre of food and one acre of pigs/animals, works.
“Luweero is the home of NRM. It should be an example to the rest of the country as a model of improved household income through Operation Wealth Creation.
“Government has allocated a lot of funds to OWC however supervision and implementation is still lacking.
“I will be visiting homesteads on foot to see for myself the progress so far made.
