Mukono roads get tarmac â€" Museveni
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has re-assured the people of Mukono district that all major roads in the area will be tarmacked.
By Joyce Namutebi
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has re-assured the people of Mukono district that all major roads in the area will be tarmacked.
The President explained that inadequate revenue collection delayed the tarmacking of Mukono-Kisoga, Kisoga-Katosi, Kisoga-Nkokonjeru and Nkokonjeru-Buikwe roads.
Museveni said as the country’s
revenue collections had now improved from sh5b in 1986 to sh4,000b, the roads would be worked on.
Museveni was yesterday the chief guest at celebrations for the Little Sisters of St. Francis in Nkokonjeru parish, Mukono district, where nuns marked their golden and silver jubilee.
He narrated how Sr. Immaculate Kyomukama’s father accommodated him at his home for a night in 1972 as he was smuggling arms from Tanzania.
Sr. Kyomukama celebrated 25 years of sisterhood.
Eight young girls made their first vows as nuns, while seven nuns made perpetual vows to serve God until death.
“She (Kyomukama) told me that there was embaga (celebrations) here. I said I will come. I came all the way from Rwakitura to attend your mbaga,†Museveni told the gathering.
He said in 1972 while fighting former president Idi Amin, one night as he travelled from Tanzania on a bicycle with a box of guns, he got stranded.
He went to the home of the sub-county chief where he could get security.
“I went to the elderly man and told him that night had caught up with me. I don’t want to travel at night. Can I spend the night at your home?†narrated the president.
Museveni said he did not tell the man the truth. “I told him that I was from the Banyankole who live on the Tanzanian side.â€
He said the nice old man showed him a room where he slept with his box of arms. The old man, he said, did not search his box and gave him food.
Museveni explained that in 1979 after Amin was overthrown, he went back to the old man and thanked him for accommodating him in 1972 and told him that he was a guerilla.
“That elderly man (the late Katembeya) is the father of Sr. Kyomukama,†Museveni revealed and drew laughter when he added: “Some people entertain angels without knowing who they are.â€
He said the two became close friends. But at first, he said, he did not know that the old man had a daughter who was a nun.
“I was very happy to know her. I have come in the place of my brother,†Museveni told the nuns and donated sh5m for the function. Kyomukama is now the principal of Santa Maria Primary teachers College, Nkokonjeru.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has re-assured the people of Mukono district that all major roads in the area will be tarmacked.
The President explained that inadequate revenue collection delayed the tarmacking of Mukono-Kisoga, Kisoga-Katosi, Kisoga-Nkokonjeru and Nkokonjeru-Buikwe roads.
Museveni said as the country’s
revenue collections had now improved from sh5b in 1986 to sh4,000b, the roads would be worked on.
Museveni was yesterday the chief guest at celebrations for the Little Sisters of St. Francis in Nkokonjeru parish, Mukono district, where nuns marked their golden and silver jubilee.
He narrated how Sr. Immaculate Kyomukama’s father accommodated him at his home for a night in 1972 as he was smuggling arms from Tanzania.
Sr. Kyomukama celebrated 25 years of sisterhood.
Eight young girls made their first vows as nuns, while seven nuns made perpetual vows to serve God until death.
“She (Kyomukama) told me that there was embaga (celebrations) here. I said I will come. I came all the way from Rwakitura to attend your mbaga,†Museveni told the gathering.
He said in 1972 while fighting former president Idi Amin, one night as he travelled from Tanzania on a bicycle with a box of guns, he got stranded.
He went to the home of the sub-county chief where he could get security.
“I went to the elderly man and told him that night had caught up with me. I don’t want to travel at night. Can I spend the night at your home?†narrated the president.
Museveni said he did not tell the man the truth. “I told him that I was from the Banyankole who live on the Tanzanian side.â€
He said the nice old man showed him a room where he slept with his box of arms. The old man, he said, did not search his box and gave him food.
Museveni explained that in 1979 after Amin was overthrown, he went back to the old man and thanked him for accommodating him in 1972 and told him that he was a guerilla.
“That elderly man (the late Katembeya) is the father of Sr. Kyomukama,†Museveni revealed and drew laughter when he added: “Some people entertain angels without knowing who they are.â€
He said the two became close friends. But at first, he said, he did not know that the old man had a daughter who was a nun.
“I was very happy to know her. I have come in the place of my brother,†Museveni told the nuns and donated sh5m for the function. Kyomukama is now the principal of Santa Maria Primary teachers College, Nkokonjeru.