Kanyomozi warns on environment
<br>EAST African legislative assembly MP Yona Kanyomozi has warned the three member states against pollution and degradation of the environment as they establish more industries after the East African federation.<br>
By Ebenezer Bifubyeka
EAST African legislative assembly MP Yona Kanyomozi has warned the three member states against pollution and degradation of the environment as they establish more industries after the East African federation.
“We intend to establish more industries under the East African federation but we shouldn’t develop them at the expense of the environment.
“Developed countries have degraded their environment in the process of industrialisation. We should not make the same mistake,†he said.
Kanyomozi was recently discussing a paper on ‘conceptualising regional integration: the East African community as a case study’ at a one-day consultative meeting on fast-tracking the East African federation at Mbarara catholic social centre in Mbarara town.
The meeting, with the theme, ‘Pan Africanism: A strategic national imperative’, was organised by the Pan African movement secretariat and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
The Pan African chairman, who is also the environment minister, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire and the Kasese Woman MP, Loice Biira Bwambale, a member of the Pan African parliament, attended.
Kanyomozi said they had started a programme of carbon trading, whereby people plant trees that reduce carbon emissions to control environmental degradation.
He said those involved in carbon trading were supposed to be paid by developed countries like the US.
On reports that he intended to stand for the presidency on the Uganda People’s Congress ticket next year, Kanyomozi said, “The delegates’ conference selects a candidate. If selected, I am willing to stand, but I wouldn’t exceed the constitutional presidential term limits.â€
EAST African legislative assembly MP Yona Kanyomozi has warned the three member states against pollution and degradation of the environment as they establish more industries after the East African federation.
“We intend to establish more industries under the East African federation but we shouldn’t develop them at the expense of the environment.
“Developed countries have degraded their environment in the process of industrialisation. We should not make the same mistake,†he said.
Kanyomozi was recently discussing a paper on ‘conceptualising regional integration: the East African community as a case study’ at a one-day consultative meeting on fast-tracking the East African federation at Mbarara catholic social centre in Mbarara town.
The meeting, with the theme, ‘Pan Africanism: A strategic national imperative’, was organised by the Pan African movement secretariat and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
The Pan African chairman, who is also the environment minister, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire and the Kasese Woman MP, Loice Biira Bwambale, a member of the Pan African parliament, attended.
Kanyomozi said they had started a programme of carbon trading, whereby people plant trees that reduce carbon emissions to control environmental degradation.
He said those involved in carbon trading were supposed to be paid by developed countries like the US.
On reports that he intended to stand for the presidency on the Uganda People’s Congress ticket next year, Kanyomozi said, “The delegates’ conference selects a candidate. If selected, I am willing to stand, but I wouldn’t exceed the constitutional presidential term limits.â€