Joel Ogwang
1 October 2008
Kampala — AGRICULTURE minister Hilary Onek has urged local governments to monitor the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) to ensure it fights poverty at the grassroots.
Speaking at a meeting for NAADS farmers at Colline Hotel, Mukono recently, he said the scheme was recently restructured to benefit all farmers. "The new NAADS will be a success story if chief administrative officers, LC5 chiefs and other local government officials closely monitor it to avoid the mismanagement that troubled NAADS," he said.
Recollecting his recent visit to Karamoja, he said there was nothing to show NAADS coverage whilst children and adults were reduced to the indignity of begging on Kampala streets.
He rapped the old NAADS, saying they were too experimental and gave local council leaders and chief administrative officers avenues to steal national resources meant to empower farmers.
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