Raymond Baguma and Caleb Bahikaho
14 October 2008
Kampala — THE Government plans to extend the tarmac road from Rukungiri through Kihihi town in Kanungu district to Ishasha border post at the Congolese border, President Yoweri Museveni announced yesterday.
Another section of the road that will be tarmarcked stretches from Ishasha and Nyakishenyi to Rubare town in Ntugamo, he added.
The President, currently in Rukungiri on an anti-poverty campaign, was speaking at a rally at Nyarurambi Primary School in Nyakishenyi sub-county.
He was accompanied by Makerere chancellor Mondo Kagonyera, who is also the deputy managing director of NSSF, former health minister Jim Muhwezi and minister Hope Mwesigye.
The President said the services the people were enjoying were a result of the fact that they had voted for the right leaders.
"In the past you elected UPC of Obote and its government collapsed before it had implemented its leaders' promises. But when you voted us into power, we did not go back to just sit down. We are doing the work you sent us to handle," he said.
To stress his point of lifting people's household incomes through commercial agriculture, he visited a successful farmer, David Byabashaija, in Buhumuriro village. Byabashiza, a retired Grade One Magistrate, told the President that he earns sh40m from his produce annually.
Museveni braved the afternoon down-pour atop his military jeep as he addressed the rally.
He said even if the Government built schools and hospitals and provided electricity, poverty would still prevail if people did not take initiatives to improve their incomes.
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