President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has reaffirmed his call for leaders to educate the populace about the perils of separating land into small pieces in the fight against land fragmentation.
The President claims that by sharing the land among themselves, the residents of the area are failing to safeguard the wealth that the NRM administration has brought in, which is driving them back into poverty.
On Wednesday, Museveni presided over a celebration of International Women’s Day with the theme “Equal Opportunities in Education, Science, and Technology” at Sanga Playground in Sanga Town Council in Kiruhura District.
He urged those in the cattle corridor to cease dividing up assets when a business owner dies and instead just establish family businesses, own shares, and do so.
Noting that the leaders had failed in their duty to foresee and inform their people of the hazards associated with land fragmentation, he asked the leaders, especially Members of Parliament, to sensitize the people against fragmenting physical property.
The President said that milk collection in the Ankole region has improved, with players in the market expanding from roughly 15 operators in 1986 to a total of 647 completely equipped milk collecting centers. He claimed that one can become wealthy through dairy farming.
According to him, the amount of milk produced in Uganda increased from 200 million liters annually to 7.2 billion liters currently.
The President stated that by preventing land fragmentation, commercial farming, manufacturing, services, and other IT sectors may assist families escape poverty. He also noted that it would be simple to solve issues, such as those facing women.
At the same event, Museveni unveiled a new World Bank grant of $200 million, or 800 billion shillings, which will be awarded to women’s groups looking to expand their entrepreneur businesses under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Project (UWEP).
The grant will be put to use as part of the “Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Entrepreneurs (GROW) Programme”.
The Grow award, according to Betty Amongi Akena, Minister of Women, Labor, and Social Development, will improve women’s economic empowerment over the course of the next five years. Project.
In the meanwhile, the women’s leaders requested that President Museveni sign the Anti-Homosexuality Law, 2023 after it had been approved by Parliament and delivered to him.
According to Hajjat Faridah Kibowa, the national chairperson of the Women’s Council, the vice is spreading quickly among young people, those with low incomes, and school-aged children.