BY JOACKIM KULE
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that some Ugandans are still facing poverty because they have become defiant to the guidance of the ruling government on socio-economic transformation.
Mr. Museveni made the remarks on Saturday afternoon while presiding over the joint thanksgiving ceremony of Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi and Hon Godfrey Baluku Kabbyanga for their separate appointments as ministers of state for trade and national guidance respectively.
The thanks-giving ceremony which took place at Kaguta Grounds in Nyakatonzi sub-county was attended by mammoth crowds of persons ferried from across the district.
President Museveni expressed his disappointment with persons who have not embraced government programs that are aimed at boosting their livelihoods and subsequently enhancing their household incomes.
He also particularly discouraged the people of Kasese against the continued growth of cotton whose return on investment, he argued, is very dismal.
The head of State emphasized his four-acre model which he said is already transforming the lives of persons that have embraced it and also vouched for coffee growing whose returns on investment are higher.
Hon. Godfrey Baluku, the Minister of State for ICT told the president that there is need to diversify the sources of income for the people of Kasese through supporting them with chicks and piglets to start poultry and piggery projects.
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