Senior legislator Hon. Cecilia Ogwal has gone at cross roads with several government officials over Uganda Peopleβs Defense Forces (UPDF) Budgetary allocations.
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βWe need to critically focus more on sectors that create jobs for the youth and also address the household income.β Ogwal stated.
The Dokolo Woman representative added, βAs we can see, nothing has been done to include mechanisms for conflict resolutions in maintaining law and order but they are more concerned with buying teargas to harm people and to cause air pollution.β Emphasizing that wπ ππππππ πππππππππππ πππ ππ ππ π πππππππ πππ ππππ ππππππ ππ π πππππππππππππ πππ πππ ππππ πππ ππ ππ ππππππ πππ ππππππ ππ ππππππ πππππππ.
She insists that government should focus on income generation sectors like agriculture, tourism, industrialization and others so that the youth and the poor are given opportunity to showcase their potential in sectors of their interests.
βUgandans have enough land and potential to carry out agriculture and industrialization but unfortunately they lack facilitation sensitization by the government and that is the reason they end up growing crops with no market value.β She highlighted.
