Ugandans don’t listen – M7 on why free education is not working
The President said they are going to come up with a strong law to deal with saboteurs of government's free Education and prohibit the charging of fees in government schools.
The country’s Universal Primary Education and Universal Secondary Education – two government initiatives to provide free education to Uganda children – are not working because Ugandans don’t want to listen.
“Ignorance is also another big problem. We gave you the method, but people don’t listen to us. We said free Education is a way to abolish ignorance, we started on this in 1997 but because of not listening to us, you get resistance; the Head Teachers still bring back school charges and yet we are sending so much money here for UPE,”
“In Teso, there are 723 primary schools where we send Shs 7billion for Teso only and we said for the Children of the poor to study, remove school charges but you still find people chasing them from school,” he cautioned.
“We told these people if you think this money we are sending you is not enough, tell us we send more, but don’t send children back home. But they don’t understand that in order to get rid of ignorance, the only medicine is Education for all.
“NRM is patient we are going to continue, and we are going to bring a new law totally prohibiting the charging of fees in government schools. If you want to charge money, go and build a private school. You will soon hear the war on that issue.”
The President also warned saboteurs of the government’s free Education for all program, saying that they are going to come up with a strong law to deal with them and prohibit the charging of fees in government schools.
Museveni made the remarks while campaigning for the NRM flagbearer Philip Oucor ahead of Serere County By-Election on Thursday 23rd February 2023. The President held campaigns in two venues; Ocaapa Town Council and Serere District Headquarters.
