Museveni reminds Basoga of 1995 advice to end poverty in region that they ignored
The President who was responding to the request by the 3rd Deputy Prime Minister Rukia Nakadama of creating a special program to alleviate poverty in Busoga said he will return to Busoga to discuss the issue of poverty among the Basoga.
President Yoweri Museveni is dismayed that the people of Busoga never listened to his 1995 advice that would have helped end the chronic poverty in the region.
“I gave you my medicine for poverty in 1995 when I made a tour here. I told you people with four acres or less, I recommend the seven activities to you,” the President said during the commissioning of a Marine Pier at the Sustainable Base in Ntokoro, Mayuge District.
He added: “Acre number one [put] clonal coffee, the second acre put fruits, acre number three put grass for zero grazing cows, acre number four put food crop and in the backyard put poultry.”
“Those who are not Muslims and traditional Banyankore, you can also rear pigs, then fish farming for those who are near swamps. That was my medicine for the people of four acres or less. And in the Manifesto of 1996 of the NRM that is what we put there.”
“But now Abasoga here, you never listened to me, and you decided to go and carry out maize and sugarcane growing on a small scale. That is where the problem is.
“The people who have listened to us, like those in Kalangala have done well; these are people who came just, long after our programs of Operation Wealth Creation, and they are getting good income. In Masaka, people listened to our advice, and they are growing coffee more and more.”
The President who was responding to the request by the 3rd Deputy Prime Minister Rukia Nakadama of creating a special program to alleviate poverty in Busoga said he will return to Busoga to discuss the issue of poverty among the Basoga.
