Days of corrupt NAADS officials numbered - Museveni
Feb 09, 2010
GOVERNMENT officials who steal funds for the Prosperity-for-All programme are like jiggers which must be removed, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
By Henry Mukasa
and Charles Jjuuko
GOVERNMENT officials who steal funds for the Prosperity-for-All programme are like jiggers which must be removed, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
Speaking at a rally at Ntinda Primary School in Kawongo in Kayunga district on Monday, Museveni urged the residents not to be discouraged by the corruption that had dogged the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.
“Officials who inflate costs of inputs given to farmers under the NAADS programme are thieves but jiggers cannot disable you from walking.
You devise ways of removing them from the feet. The thieves are the jiggers in the programme. We must look for a safety pin and prick them out,†he said.
Museveni, on the second day of his tour of the district to promote the poverty-eradication programme, said inadequacies in the implementation of NAADS should not blind the residents from its core values.
He warned that when investigations into the implementation of the programme are completed, the guilty officials would growl like a thieving dog hit by its master.
Residents of Kawongo, on the shores of Lake Kyoga, accused the NAADS officials of distributing money among themselves and inflating the costs of inputs.
They accused officials of the Beach Management Unit of confiscating illegal fishing gear and immature fish and selling them.
Others said they were molested by soldiers from Operation Wembley, a former crime crack unit of the Police, while some said the construction of Ntinda Primary School was botched up.
The President directed his assistant on political affairs, Moses Byaruhanga, to list down all their grievances.
Museveni was received by Capt. Baker Kimeze, the leader of the Banyala, one of the tribes in Kayunga.
He visited Seasons Dairy farm of Baker Muwonge that makes cheese. He also toured and a model farm of George Wilson Kiwanuka, who has bananas and coffee plantations.
The President told residents that they could become rich by emulating the model farmers.
and Charles Jjuuko
GOVERNMENT officials who steal funds for the Prosperity-for-All programme are like jiggers which must be removed, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
Speaking at a rally at Ntinda Primary School in Kawongo in Kayunga district on Monday, Museveni urged the residents not to be discouraged by the corruption that had dogged the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.
“Officials who inflate costs of inputs given to farmers under the NAADS programme are thieves but jiggers cannot disable you from walking.
You devise ways of removing them from the feet. The thieves are the jiggers in the programme. We must look for a safety pin and prick them out,†he said.
Museveni, on the second day of his tour of the district to promote the poverty-eradication programme, said inadequacies in the implementation of NAADS should not blind the residents from its core values.
He warned that when investigations into the implementation of the programme are completed, the guilty officials would growl like a thieving dog hit by its master.
Residents of Kawongo, on the shores of Lake Kyoga, accused the NAADS officials of distributing money among themselves and inflating the costs of inputs.
They accused officials of the Beach Management Unit of confiscating illegal fishing gear and immature fish and selling them.
Others said they were molested by soldiers from Operation Wembley, a former crime crack unit of the Police, while some said the construction of Ntinda Primary School was botched up.
The President directed his assistant on political affairs, Moses Byaruhanga, to list down all their grievances.
Museveni was received by Capt. Baker Kimeze, the leader of the Banyala, one of the tribes in Kayunga.
He visited Seasons Dairy farm of Baker Muwonge that makes cheese. He also toured and a model farm of George Wilson Kiwanuka, who has bananas and coffee plantations.
The President told residents that they could become rich by emulating the model farmers.