Iganga, (UG): The Minister for General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Justine Kasule Lumumba has shown dissatisfaction with the disunity among leaders in the eastern district of Iganga.
The minister, who hails from Bukooli in Bugiri district says a number of leaders have initiated fights to the extent of disagreeing with one another on the development project.
While officiating at the International Youth Day celebrations for Iganga District at Nakalama Primary School on Thursday, Ms Lumumba called upon leaders to get united and lobby as a team and also have respect for the people they serve.
She thanked Iganga municipality Mayor Bamu Lulenzi that despite being in NUP, he has always credited gov’t in development projects.
“Recently some of you have been writing letters to various offices to stop the market from coming to Iganga and some ministers who came on fact-finding missions were abused and I have always stood to neutralize them out of anger,” Ms Lumumba said.
“Among the districts in Busoga, Iganga is number one in having disunited leaders but I want to beseech you to work together and have one voice to lobby projects. Giving you leadership doesn’t mean mistreating your people, so respect your electorates.”
Additionally, the minister advised youths, especially school-going girls to turn down suggestions by men on sexual-related issues but instead consider the right time of marriage. Lumumba who’s handling media and entertainment on the organizing committee for the Kyabazinga wedding rallied Basoga to support the function in any capacity.
The guest speaker at the function and a new convert to NRM Hajj Badogi Ismail Waguma, who represented speaker Rt. Hon. Anita Among refuted comments that he crossed from FDC to the ruling NRM party for money saying he values politics of consolidation and expansion.
Mr Waguma urged youths to stick to a number of pillars including academic upgrading, maintaining good health and fighting against poverty by having an income.
The function was attended by the woman MP for Iganga Hon Kauma Sauda Alibaawo, Kigulu South MP Hon Milton Muwuma, NRM chairperson Hajj Walubi Abubakar, deputy RDC Mr Mwanje Eddy, Iganga local government led by the vice chairperson LCV, the representatives of youths from districts in Busoga, municipal mayor Bamu Lulenzi, former Kigulu South MP Hon Andrew Kiiza Kaluya, among others.
In his remark, the chairperson youths Namungalwe town council Mr. Buyinza Abudrahim Kaziba, on behalf of Iganga youths presented their need to set up a two-acre washing bay and employ over 200 youths in Iganga. He also raised the need to skill youths at Namungalwe Technical Institute in Kigulu North which has failed to operationalize, calling upon the Minister’s intervention.
He advised the next generation of youths to be impactful and leave a legacy as they have done through empowering youths to preserve the environment by involving youths in skilling activities like making electric stoves.
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