'Entandikwa Office For Every Parish'

Jun 19, 2001

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni said yesterday that every parish is to have an office to handle Entandikwa, reports Hamis Kaheru.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni said yesterday that every parish is to have an office to handle Entandikwa, reports Hamis Kaheru. He said one person would be appointed from each of the 5,000 parishes countrywide to man the office and educate the population on how to access, use and pay back the money. Museveni, who addressed several rallies in Kampala yesterday, said many people were not able to access the loans because the fund was previously managed at district headquarters, far from the beneficiaries. He said sh50b had been availed in the 2001/2002 budget for Entandikwa to fight poverty and improve household incomes. Museveni said voters in Kampala were partly to blame for the poverty because they elected leaders, mainly multi-partyists, who spent more time fighting his government than developing their areas. He described Kawempe Division chairman Sebuliba Mutumba, Rubaga North MP Waswa Lule and Rubaga Division chairman Justin Sendikadiwa as blocked straws which could not pull beer (resources) from the gourd (central government) to the people. Museveni said leaders in the opposition were deliberately not extending services to people and introducing bad policies to make them hate the Movement. He described them as people with endali (cross-eyed). "They say you should elect them so that they fight Museveni. Will they manage Museveni? You should tell them that they are wasting their time because many people have tried to fight Museveni and failed," he said. Museveni compared multipartyists' attempts to fight to a situation where shoulders would declare war on the head. The President promised to repair Gayaza Road and to scrap the sh300 tax paid by wheelbarrow pushers which he said was imposed on them by Sebuliba. Sebuliba is a parliamentary candidate for Kawempe South. He said people should elect John Fisher Kasenge for Kawempe North and Tom Kayongo for Rubaga South. He said he was scheduled to meet Medi Kaggwa and Sam Hashaka last night to convince one of them to step down for the other. He thanked Nyombi Tembo and Jamada Luzinda for stepping down for Kayongo and Kasenge. Ends

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