Makerere don warn on population growth

UGANDA is to lose over sh700b by 2013 if the Government does not check the rapid population growth, an expert has warned. Dr. Raymond Tweheyo of Makerere University School of Public Health said the country has a population increase of about one million people a year, one of the highest in the world.

UGANDA is to lose over sh700b by 2013 if the Government does not check the rapid population growth, an expert has warned.

Dr. Raymond Tweheyo of Makerere University School of Public Health said the country has a population increase of about one million people a year, one of the highest in the world.

He was speaking at a sensitisation workshop for leaders from eastern Uganda at Prime Hotel in Tororo recently.