Museveni to give Isingiro piped water
Dec 30, 2010
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the Government plans to pump water from River Kagera and Lake Nakivale to solve the challenge of water scarcity in Isingiro district.
By Raymond Baguma
and Abdulkarim
Ssengendo
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the Government plans to pump water from River Kagera and Lake Nakivale to solve the challenge of water scarcity in Isingiro district.
While on a campaign trail in Isingiro yesterday, Museveni said he was aware of the acute water shortage in the entire district and promised that the Government would soon address it.
Museveni revealed that the central government annually sends sh733m to support the water sector in Isingiro. He asked the district authorities to periodically explain to the public the expenditure of the funds.
In Buhungiro, where Museveni addressed a rally, residents complained that the piped water supply to Rugaaga town and Kyakahenda areas had not been completed by the contractor. In response, he promised to investigate the matter.
Museveni noted that he was aware of the other challenges Isingiro faces in the sectors of education, health, low household incomes, lack of electricity and a poor road network.
Mbarara-Isingiro-Kikagate road, the President stated, would soon be tarmacked.
He also said the central government had taken over the maintenance of a number of roads within the district.
The roads include the Kabingo-Rugaaga road, the Kabingo-Nyakitunda-Kikagate road and the Kityaaza-Murema road.
Others are the Saano-Endiizi road, Ntantamuki-Kamwema road, and the Kityaaza-Bugango road.
The Government, he added, would address the electricity shortage in the district, and plans were underway to extended electricity to the areas of Kabingo, Kikagate, Buhungiro, Rugaaga, Endiizi, Kagarama and Kashumba.
Museveni acknowledged that there had been delays in carrying out routine maintenance works on the roads, as well as the tarmacking of the road to Kikagate, which he attributed to the bureaucracy by the technical officers.
“Work on the road delayed because there was a battle over who takes the contract and it ended in the courts of law. But I called the concerned parties and I told them that noone should delay the works. Now the contract has been awarded,†Museveni said.
He also said the Government had introduced universal education at primary and secondary levels, which was supposed to be free to all children. He cautioned teachers to desist from the practice of asking for money for school lunch from parents and chasing children from school.
He said starting next year, the Government would start free education for A’ level and technical institutions.
The Government will increase the number of students on government scholarship at university, while others would access support through the student loan scheme, he said.
He said he disagreed with the FDC presidential candidate Dr. Col. Kizza Besigye’s plan to provide free lunch to school children. “We don’t support it because it deprives us of financial resources that would otherwise have been spent on constructing roads, extending electricity and water,†he said.
He said that a number of schools within the district had been earmarked for rehabilitation including Kigarama SS, Endiizi SS, Birere SS, Isingiro SS, Masha High School, Ngarama SS and Rutsya SS.
He asked people to embrace NAADS programme if they are to fight household poverty.
and Abdulkarim
Ssengendo
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the Government plans to pump water from River Kagera and Lake Nakivale to solve the challenge of water scarcity in Isingiro district.
While on a campaign trail in Isingiro yesterday, Museveni said he was aware of the acute water shortage in the entire district and promised that the Government would soon address it.
Museveni revealed that the central government annually sends sh733m to support the water sector in Isingiro. He asked the district authorities to periodically explain to the public the expenditure of the funds.
In Buhungiro, where Museveni addressed a rally, residents complained that the piped water supply to Rugaaga town and Kyakahenda areas had not been completed by the contractor. In response, he promised to investigate the matter.
Museveni noted that he was aware of the other challenges Isingiro faces in the sectors of education, health, low household incomes, lack of electricity and a poor road network.
Mbarara-Isingiro-Kikagate road, the President stated, would soon be tarmacked.
He also said the central government had taken over the maintenance of a number of roads within the district.
The roads include the Kabingo-Rugaaga road, the Kabingo-Nyakitunda-Kikagate road and the Kityaaza-Murema road.
Others are the Saano-Endiizi road, Ntantamuki-Kamwema road, and the Kityaaza-Bugango road.
The Government, he added, would address the electricity shortage in the district, and plans were underway to extended electricity to the areas of Kabingo, Kikagate, Buhungiro, Rugaaga, Endiizi, Kagarama and Kashumba.
Museveni acknowledged that there had been delays in carrying out routine maintenance works on the roads, as well as the tarmacking of the road to Kikagate, which he attributed to the bureaucracy by the technical officers.
“Work on the road delayed because there was a battle over who takes the contract and it ended in the courts of law. But I called the concerned parties and I told them that noone should delay the works. Now the contract has been awarded,†Museveni said.
He also said the Government had introduced universal education at primary and secondary levels, which was supposed to be free to all children. He cautioned teachers to desist from the practice of asking for money for school lunch from parents and chasing children from school.
He said starting next year, the Government would start free education for A’ level and technical institutions.
The Government will increase the number of students on government scholarship at university, while others would access support through the student loan scheme, he said.
He said he disagreed with the FDC presidential candidate Dr. Col. Kizza Besigye’s plan to provide free lunch to school children. “We don’t support it because it deprives us of financial resources that would otherwise have been spent on constructing roads, extending electricity and water,†he said.
He said that a number of schools within the district had been earmarked for rehabilitation including Kigarama SS, Endiizi SS, Birere SS, Isingiro SS, Masha High School, Ngarama SS and Rutsya SS.
He asked people to embrace NAADS programme if they are to fight household poverty.