UPE was Obote’s idea â€" Miria
Feb 12, 2006
THE UPE programme was copied from (former President) Milton Obote’s 1980 campaign manifesto, the UPC presidential candidate said in Nakasongola over the Weekend.
By Frederick Kiwanuka
THE UPE programme was copied from (former President) Milton Obote’s 1980 campaign manifesto, the UPC presidential candidate said in Nakasongola over the Weekend.
Mama Miria Obote said unlike the NRM’s UPE which was ‘haphazardly implemented’, UPC had planned a systematic programme which would involve construction of enough classrooms and training enough teachers, who would be paid well.
“We had a universal primary education programme in our 1980 manifesto. But our UPE had been well-planned, and not like that of the NRM where the classrooms are congested and there are no teachers,†Miria said at a rally.
Miria, who was campaigning in the area for the first time, had earlier addressed rallies in Kakooge and Katuugo trading centres, before the main one at the district headquarters.
Dressed in a red African robe (kitenge), Miria said UPC had laid a foundation for UPE by constructing several colleges to train teachers, but the Movement government ‘irrationally’ closed them.
THE UPE programme was copied from (former President) Milton Obote’s 1980 campaign manifesto, the UPC presidential candidate said in Nakasongola over the Weekend.
Mama Miria Obote said unlike the NRM’s UPE which was ‘haphazardly implemented’, UPC had planned a systematic programme which would involve construction of enough classrooms and training enough teachers, who would be paid well.
“We had a universal primary education programme in our 1980 manifesto. But our UPE had been well-planned, and not like that of the NRM where the classrooms are congested and there are no teachers,†Miria said at a rally.
Miria, who was campaigning in the area for the first time, had earlier addressed rallies in Kakooge and Katuugo trading centres, before the main one at the district headquarters.
Dressed in a red African robe (kitenge), Miria said UPC had laid a foundation for UPE by constructing several colleges to train teachers, but the Movement government ‘irrationally’ closed them.