Frederick Kiwanuka
15 July 2008
Kampala — RESIDENTS of Nakaseke district will soon be able to transport their products faster on the Matugga-Semuto-Kapeeka road. The Luweero Triangle state minister, Nyombi Thembo, said the long-awaited construction would begin soon.
He added that the road would silence NRM detractors, who have been criticising the Government for delaying the project.
"They (NRM opponents) will have nothing to talk about," Thembo said in Nakaseke on Sunday.
The minister, who was launching a computer laboratory at St. Kizito Kijaguzo Primary School, assured the doubting residents that the initial processes were underway.
The road links Nakaseke to Kampala and covers the areas in which President Yoweri Museveni, who was then NRA rebel leader and his forces, were based.
In the 2008/09 budget, the Government allocated funds to tarmack the potholed 42km murrum road.
Earlier the Nakaseke Woman MP, Rose Namayanja, had said failure to work on the road would erode the popularity of the NRM party.
Thembo commended the headmistress, Sr. Prisca Nalule for being 'creative' and maintaining Kijaguzo as model Universal Primary Education (UPE) school in Nakaseke.
He said it was one of the few UPE schools with a computer laboratory.
Nyombi criticised low-income parents who ridicule UPE, saying they risked lagging behind the rest of the population.
"Many of the people who laugh at UPE are well-off and can take their children to high-cost schools.
Nalule said the laboratory cost sh7m, which was contributed by parents.
She added the facility would be open to all Semuto residents for computer training.
On the gratuity for war veterans, Thembo said the Government would release sh30b over a period of three years to clear the war debt, which has been pending for 22 years.
He, however, urged the veterans not to withdraw their support for the NRM, saying it was the only Government obliged to pay them.
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