Kabaka Mutebi warns youth against idleness
Apr 28, 2008
THE youth should stop idling in urban centres but remain to work in rural areas, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II has said.
By Josephine Maseruka
THE youth should stop idling in urban centres but remain to work in rural areas, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II has said.
He attributed the biting poverty in Buganda to the youth roaming the towns in search of the few jobs instead of engaging in agriculture.
“I know most of you hate digging because you do not want to get dirty. But do you expect to become rich without toiling or getting dirty in an agricultural state like Uganda?â€
Mutebi, who was on Saturday opening the Buganda Youth Day celebrations at Lugazi playground in Mukono district, urged the youth to stop selling off land, which he said was their only asset.
“People are buying and grabbing land in Buganda because you are lazy. You develop the land further or lease it out.â€
The Kabaka amused his audience when he noted that the unemployed youth in the city were eating food grown by the elderly people they left toiling in the villages.
The riches you so much cherish, he told the young people, were in the villages.
The Bishop of Lugazi Diocese, Matthias Ssekamanya, blessed thousands of people at the colourful function which was organised by the Buganda youth council.
In line with the day’s theme, Environment, the foundation of our culture and development, Mutebi launched a tree-planting campaign and inaugurated a five-acre Robusta coffee plantation owned by the youth council at Nagojje sub-county.
The 3,000 coffee seedlings were donated by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
The youth asked the Kabaka to allow them representation in the Lukiiko and to make the celebrations an annual event to be rotated in the 18 traditional counties (amasaza).
THE youth should stop idling in urban centres but remain to work in rural areas, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II has said.
He attributed the biting poverty in Buganda to the youth roaming the towns in search of the few jobs instead of engaging in agriculture.
“I know most of you hate digging because you do not want to get dirty. But do you expect to become rich without toiling or getting dirty in an agricultural state like Uganda?â€
Mutebi, who was on Saturday opening the Buganda Youth Day celebrations at Lugazi playground in Mukono district, urged the youth to stop selling off land, which he said was their only asset.
“People are buying and grabbing land in Buganda because you are lazy. You develop the land further or lease it out.â€
The Kabaka amused his audience when he noted that the unemployed youth in the city were eating food grown by the elderly people they left toiling in the villages.
The riches you so much cherish, he told the young people, were in the villages.
The Bishop of Lugazi Diocese, Matthias Ssekamanya, blessed thousands of people at the colourful function which was organised by the Buganda youth council.
In line with the day’s theme, Environment, the foundation of our culture and development, Mutebi launched a tree-planting campaign and inaugurated a five-acre Robusta coffee plantation owned by the youth council at Nagojje sub-county.
The 3,000 coffee seedlings were donated by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
The youth asked the Kabaka to allow them representation in the Lukiiko and to make the celebrations an annual event to be rotated in the 18 traditional counties (amasaza).