Published on 30/06/2024
The Office of the NRM National Chairman (ONC) visited Mayuge District in eastern Uganda on Saturday, extending its popular self-empowerment initiative.
On delegation by the Head ONC Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo, Mr Kintu Moses the Public Relations Officer of the ONC rallied the members of Bugadde SACCO to embrace Wealth Creation gospel of HE Museveni to generate income in the household.
Bugadde SACCO organized a fundraising event under the theme “Bugadde Eyake” aiming to install street lights in Bugadde sub-county.
Kintu delivered 5 Street lights additional to other wealth creation items; spraying pumps, sewing machines, tool box welding machines etc., worth millions to assessed groups.
He told the gathering that Hajjat Hadijah decided to support members to create jobs for income generation that they would after save in the save & meet their household needs. Several groups of Youth and Women benefited from the capital items.
He added that, Parish Developlement Model is a vehicle that people of Mayuge must take advantage of to start up Small Business Enterprises to improve livelihoods. On this the peasants decried the commercial officer and parish chiefs who instead selectively extend PDM funds to the already well off citizens. Kintu promised to return and execute a fact finding exercise basing on the lists of the already benefited individuals from last financial year’s PDM allocation of Ugx 100 million.
The event was attended by the area representative Hon Isabirye Idi who donated Ugx 2 million and requested the peasants to prioritize wealth creation to improve their livelihoods. Hon Isabirye appreciated Hajjat Namyalo for the hard work that has registered a recognisable positive change in the NRM.
Kintu added that HE Museveni’s agenda is to make all Ugandans rich to improve the general standards of living and thus explains several projects put up by the government. He excelled Bugadde SACCO of 19 years with a running balance of Ugx 28 billion for right cooperate social responsibility & asked them to tap into the Ugx 30 billion ear marked for onward lending in the FY 2024/2025 budget.
The event was hosted at Bugadde Primary School which also received a donation of six (6) from ONC to improve the service delivery in school’s sickbay.
