On Sunday, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni officiated a gathering of over 20,000 informal sector entrepreneurs that included millers, butchers, City Traders, Version86 Youth and transporters while at Kololo independence grounds.
To make more money from their activities, the president encouraged them to do more value-addition.
This he illustrated saying, Uganda now produces about four million tonnes of maize annually. However, a lot of this maize is exported to Kenya in an unprocessed form. In the process we lose not just quality flour that would fetch more money but its byproducts like animal feeds and jobs.
Pastor Robert Kayanja the patron of Version 86 spear headed this convention to meet the demands of the Ugandan citizens towards economic transformation before the President.
“The government will continue to support youth groups like we have done with the Najeera Youth Group in Wakiso district that we helped purchase machines worth Shs300 million. The government will also continue building better market structures like the one at Wandegeya in Kampala.” He stated
The President thanked Pastor Robert Kayanja for mobilising the groups and urged them to do much more in quality and quantity of production. Following the warm welcome on arrival, the president added on to say that he had never met people who love him that much, “this is my first time”
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Photos by: Atuhaire Priscilla Prim.
