Pallisa (UG):- The People of Kibale County in Pallisa District have been advised to take advantage of the end-of-the-year festival season to consider forgiveness, sharing, and reconciliation.
The remarks were articulated by Hon. Richard Oseku Oriebo the area Member of Parliament who said there is nothing pure in the eyes of God apart from a gesture of real love for one another before we ascend it to him.
Hon. Oseku who spoke with empathy said most men hardly apologise to the members of their families openly yet they should be exemplary. He asked all religious leaders to centre their preaching on family unity and also pray for the rampant accidents that claimed over 10 people in Kibale County alone this year.
“I am requesting my people of Kibale county and other road users to be mindful while using the Tirinyi-Kumi via Pallisa tarmac road being a highway which most people use as a short route to Teso and Northern Uganda,” Hon Oseku said.
In his personal relationship with others, the MP urged whoever he might have wronged to forgive him so as to summarize this year 2024 with peace and usher in 2025 with new God’s blessings.
Hon. Oseku begged women to stop placing demands that the family cannot afford like the purchase of expensive clothes as this may result in the selling of the little food they have in the family.
To boost household production MP Oseku challenged extension workers especially the veterinary officers to guide people in the best practices of rearing poultry being the enterprise which has a ready local market and fetches better money.
“A poultry farmer who practices free range system earns better money because two chickens bring him 50,000 and the demand is high compared to cassava which is currently at shs. 200 per kilogram”, he said.
On to touchy issues of girl children’s safety in this vacation and festive season, Hon. Oseku cautioned parents to be mindful of their children and ensure they are at home before 7 pm because the overcrowding in trading centres, disco halls given the high rate of drug abuse may endanger them.
“Some children have also mastered their parent’s timetable the time parents come back home is when they leave blindfolding parents that they are at home. And this has led to gang fighting leading to death as they go gatecrashing in functions uninvited”, Oseku said.
Mr Opatana Albert of Okaalei village in Opwateta sub-county, Kibale county said the problem people don’t yield to the advice of leaders and only want money from them.
Opatana said if people listen to what Hon. Oseku keeps telling them they would have transformed, imagine selling 300kgs of cassava at shs.200 each raises shs. 60,000 for clothing then later start buying it at shs.300 from the stores.
I am a VHT and while doing my work in the community, it’s evident that 70% of the children below 10 years are bustards or their mothers who are also teenagers are victims of defilement and defaulters of marriage as they did it unprepared”, he said.
Mrs Apolot Susan Otai the Pallisa district probation officer said most of the cases they handle mushroom from parents failing to shape children at a tender age and just allowing them to grow.
” It is shaming for a parent to tell a child of 5 years that am going to take you to school next year because you are stubborn and the teachers will work on you. This is running away from responsibility and making a child develop bias against teachers “, Apolot said.
Mrs. Otai said over 200 girls from primary five to primary seven dropped out of school in Pallisa this year and PLE results may be released when again some are pregnant
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