Mbarara RDC raps UPC chief

May 03, 2004

Mbarara resident district commissioner Clement Kandole has criticised Dr. James Rwanyarare for accusing the Government of failing to employ all graduates.

By Ebenezer Bifubyeka

Mbarara resident district commissioner Clement Kandole has criticised Dr. James Rwanyarare for accusing the Government of failing to employ all graduates.

Rwanyarare is the chairman of the presidential policy commission of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC).

“Rwanyarare said on radio that when UPC was in power, in the 1960’s, there was ready employment for every graduate unlike in the Movement government.

“How could Rwanyarare say that? How many graduates were there in the 1960’s? Today, we get over 20,000 graduates every year, but the Government can only employ 300,000,” he said.

Speaking at the Labour Day celebrations at Kakyeka Stadium on Saturday, Kandole said the problem of unemployment would continue rising since the number of academic institutions was increasing.

Kandole said it was good news to the labourers that the killing wage was gone.

“Now we are on a surviving wage. We, however, need a living wage. We need to nationalise the salaries instead of waiting for workers to strike like the doctors intend to do,” he said.

He said 92% of the budget was donor-funded with conditionalities that affected the locals.

“Those donors refused to give subsidies to our farmers yet they claimed they were partners in development,” he said.

Kandole hailed Police officers who handled the drivers’ strike last week, for not shooting at them.
He said they deserved to be promoted.

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