Oulanyah urges Busoga MPs to work together
THE deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has advised MPS from Busoga region to work as a team to ensure development in the area.
By JACKIE NAMBOGGA
THE deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has advised MPS from Busoga region to work as a team to ensure development in the area.
Oulanyah said Jinja was the largest industrial town in East Africa and asked the legislators to embark on restoring its industrial glory.
“It is known that Jinja was an industrial town. Since we are no longer in a period of electioneering, it is time to work for the people of Busoga,†he said.
Oulanyah was the chief guest at a thanks-giving ceremony organised by Jinja municipality West MP Moses Balyeku at Jinja Senior Secondary School play ground.
He said much of Uganda’s electricity is generated from Jinja, but Busoga had not benefited from it.
Oulanyah challenged the legislators to come up with ideas aimed at utilising electricity at a subsidised rate to attract more investments in the area.
“I will wait for these motions to be brought to Parliament and once I am presiding over, I will give the MPS the opportunity to express the idea,†he said.
Citing the Source of River Nile in Jinja, Oulanyah asked the leadership to focus on improving tourism sites in the area.
He said improving the sites would attract more tourists and increase the revenue base, creating employment opportunities.
“Balyeku is able. He talks sense and has got the potential of delivering basing on the projects he established before you elected him,†Oulanyah said.
Gender minister Syda Bbumba, who commended the Basoga for voting for NRM in the February general elections, promised to generate jobs for the youth.
Bbumba said through various projects at the gender ministry, the youth would get training to become job creators.
Balyeku said the constituency, which was for the last 10 years under the control of FDC’s Harry Kasigwa, would never return to the opposition.
He vowed to fight poverty in the region by giving out scholarships.
Balyeku noted that FM radio stations, including his own Baba FM, played partisan politics during campaigns and called for a change.
Lands, housing and urban development minister Daudi Migereko hailed the people of Jinja for shunning the walk-to-work protests.
THE deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has advised MPS from Busoga region to work as a team to ensure development in the area.
Oulanyah said Jinja was the largest industrial town in East Africa and asked the legislators to embark on restoring its industrial glory.
“It is known that Jinja was an industrial town. Since we are no longer in a period of electioneering, it is time to work for the people of Busoga,†he said.
Oulanyah was the chief guest at a thanks-giving ceremony organised by Jinja municipality West MP Moses Balyeku at Jinja Senior Secondary School play ground.
He said much of Uganda’s electricity is generated from Jinja, but Busoga had not benefited from it.
Oulanyah challenged the legislators to come up with ideas aimed at utilising electricity at a subsidised rate to attract more investments in the area.
“I will wait for these motions to be brought to Parliament and once I am presiding over, I will give the MPS the opportunity to express the idea,†he said.
Citing the Source of River Nile in Jinja, Oulanyah asked the leadership to focus on improving tourism sites in the area.
He said improving the sites would attract more tourists and increase the revenue base, creating employment opportunities.
“Balyeku is able. He talks sense and has got the potential of delivering basing on the projects he established before you elected him,†Oulanyah said.
Gender minister Syda Bbumba, who commended the Basoga for voting for NRM in the February general elections, promised to generate jobs for the youth.
Bbumba said through various projects at the gender ministry, the youth would get training to become job creators.
Balyeku said the constituency, which was for the last 10 years under the control of FDC’s Harry Kasigwa, would never return to the opposition.
He vowed to fight poverty in the region by giving out scholarships.
Balyeku noted that FM radio stations, including his own Baba FM, played partisan politics during campaigns and called for a change.
Lands, housing and urban development minister Daudi Migereko hailed the people of Jinja for shunning the walk-to-work protests.