President Yoweri Museveni over the weekend visited comrade Karoli Kamanyire at his home in Kikwaya Sub-county, Kakumiro District, where the President toured his piggery project and mini-processing plant for maize and coffee. The president also use the occasion to address a rally in the same vicinity.
President Museveni also made a call to Ugandans to stop harvesting young coffe beans since it compromises the quality of the finished product and affects Uganda’s competetiveness in the global market.
Mr. Museveni urged farmers in the area to increase coffee output so that the factory’s potential benefits the community in Bunyoro Sub-Region. He urged wananchi to stop sleeping and alcoholism and expend their energies to create household wealth. He said the policy of the NRM Government is to transform Sub-Counties into mini industrial zones adding that plans were underway to provide the youth with grain and feed mills to facilitate income generation. Under this arrangement, he said, they will be able to produce starch for use in manufacturing medical tablets and that furniture workshops would be established in all parts of the country to stop dependence on supplies from Kampala.
Mr. Museveni commended Mzee Kamanyire for creating income. He stressed that his visit to Kakumiro today serves to mark memories of their experiences on the 6th February 1981 when the then NRA passed through the area after attacking Kabamba barracks.
He observed that the people of Bunyoro Sub-Region have got the potential to generate good income from milk production like Kiruhuura District in South Western Uganda, which has 18 Sub-Counties, with 296 milk plants.
On the issue of environment protection, the President cautioned the people against deforestation and cultivating in wetlands. He said that the water bodies are the key facilities to ensure success in the irrigation schemes that will sustain agro-production activities throughout the years.
The president commend the individual and group efforts towards agro-processing, which is one of the points he has been preaching in the NRM. In a statement, the president said that,
“Following our recent CEC resolution to form mini industrial zones at parish level, government will support such initiatives.
I also thank the people of Bunyoro for always voting NRM to lead the country. We shall continue working with the wanainchi to eradicate poverty”.
Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Hon. Matia Kasaija, informed residents that Government will build the premises of Kikwaya Sub-County.
Kakumiro District LC5 Chairman, Joseph Sentayi, appealed to President Museveni to intervene in the issue of investors who are attempting to deny sitting tenants their privilege of receiving land titles from Government under the programme of compensating absentee land lords.
Mzee Karoli Kamanyire saluted President Museveni for the revival and upgrading of his coffee factory.
Additional reporting from State House Uganda.
