Museveni appeals to clergy on poverty
Oct 09, 2010
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged clergy and their spouses to be lead examples in the fight against poverty and the campaign to raise people’s household income.
By Abdulkarim Ssengendo
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged clergy and their spouses to be lead examples in the fight against poverty and the campaign to raise people’s household income.
“It’s possible to eliminate poverty and improve household income, but how will you convince someone to be rich when you yourself are still poor,†Museveni asked.
He told the clergy to start self-help projects so that the rest of Ugandans can learn from them.
He was officiating at the opening of the Ankole diocesan clergy and their spouses conference attended by 220 delegates from districts of Ibanda, Mbarara, Isingiro and Ntungamo.
Museveni gave Ankole diocese sh40m to support Diocesan Investment Authority and also contributed another shs40m towards the construction of a hostel project at Bishop Stuart University.
Museveni commended religious leaders for discouraging people of Ankole from drinking raw milk, sharing one cup, eating tobacco and drinking alcohol.
However, he challenged them that they only concentrated on improving people’s health and forgot to teach them how to make money and become rich.
“In Nyabushozi I taught people modern way of farming and by 1995 they had all transformed to modern farming. And I decided to take the campaign throughout the entire country,†he said.
The President has asked the inter-religious council to sit with the ministry of education and see how to go about religious teaching in schools.
He was responding to concern raised by Bishop of Ankole diocese,
Rt. Rev. Fred Sheldon Mwesigwa, who said that Ugandan religious education curricular should be revised and make religious education a core subject
The clergy also told the President they are saddened by pornography in the media.
“We are saddened by ponographic publications. We should quickly act and save the world and we ask the President to intervene and stop such acts,†Simon Mutabazi chairman of the house of clergy said.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged clergy and their spouses to be lead examples in the fight against poverty and the campaign to raise people’s household income.
“It’s possible to eliminate poverty and improve household income, but how will you convince someone to be rich when you yourself are still poor,†Museveni asked.
He told the clergy to start self-help projects so that the rest of Ugandans can learn from them.
He was officiating at the opening of the Ankole diocesan clergy and their spouses conference attended by 220 delegates from districts of Ibanda, Mbarara, Isingiro and Ntungamo.
Museveni gave Ankole diocese sh40m to support Diocesan Investment Authority and also contributed another shs40m towards the construction of a hostel project at Bishop Stuart University.
Museveni commended religious leaders for discouraging people of Ankole from drinking raw milk, sharing one cup, eating tobacco and drinking alcohol.
However, he challenged them that they only concentrated on improving people’s health and forgot to teach them how to make money and become rich.
“In Nyabushozi I taught people modern way of farming and by 1995 they had all transformed to modern farming. And I decided to take the campaign throughout the entire country,†he said.
The President has asked the inter-religious council to sit with the ministry of education and see how to go about religious teaching in schools.
He was responding to concern raised by Bishop of Ankole diocese,
Rt. Rev. Fred Sheldon Mwesigwa, who said that Ugandan religious education curricular should be revised and make religious education a core subject
The clergy also told the President they are saddened by pornography in the media.
“We are saddened by ponographic publications. We should quickly act and save the world and we ask the President to intervene and stop such acts,†Simon Mutabazi chairman of the house of clergy said.