President Museveni has told district leaders from Gomba and Sembabule that they need to prioritise household income of the communities they lead, saying once this is done, development will follow.
He was meeting them at his Kisozi farm in Gomba District.
The meeting sought to outline how the nine villages from Gomba and Sembabule Districts have benefitted from the project given to them by the President in 2011 and to see how the remaining districts can be brought on board to benefit from the program with the help of the leaders.
“The roads, electricity and other infrastructures are not the medicine for poverty. The medicine for poverty is household income or a good salary,” he said.
In 2011, Museveni donated cows, goats, coffee seedlings, pigs, money, among others to households in nine villages in Gomba and Sembabule with the aim of generating incomes to improve their livelihoods.
The villages which benefitted include Kirasi, Kisozi A, Kisozi B, Obutugu, Lutunku A, Lutunku B, Kajumilo, Kasozi and Kikuumadungu.
Museveni informed the leaders that the project in the nine villages, was a pilot study and since it has been successful, it should now be taken to the rest of the villages in Gomba and Sembabule.
He also assured the leaders of the necessary support to improve the livelihood of the people they lead but asked them to mobilise their people to embrace government programs such as Parish Development Model (PDM) and Emyooga to fight poverty.
The Gomba West MP Robina Rwakoojo thanked the president for his visionary leadership.
She said as leaders, they are already preaching the president’s message of increasing household income to the people through several government initiatives like PDM.
Shartsi Musherure, the MP for Mawogola North, thanked President Museveni for bringing forth the projects which are causing development in Gomba, Sembabule and the whole country. She assured the president that the people of Sembabule have embraced the PDM project and the money is being utilised well for the right cause.
On her part, Gomba Woman MP, Sylvia Nayebale commended President Museveni for being an exemplary leader
who works towards improving the welfare of Ugandans. She appreciated the President for the project that has improved the livelihoods of the people of Gomba and Sembabule.
The project coordinator Sarah Nalwanga, told the president that his entandikwa scheme has done tremendous work in changing the lives of people in the nine villages.