By Mulengera Reporters
On Saturday, Kampala Minister Minsa Kabanda was hosted on Top Radio’s very popular Negwozadde program where she updated the people of Kampala about the President’s most recent tour of wealth creation projects in Kampala, Wakiso and other parts of Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area.
Accompanied by her PA Eng Panadol Muzamir Katumba, Minsa Kabanda revealed that the President was very happy at the conclusion of his tour to realize that his government’s modest wealth creation interventions, like PDM and Emyooga, had actually registered better impact in the lives of ordinary people than had been portrayed to him all along.
Kabanda said that haters had infiltrated intelligence agencies and flooded the President with deceptive reports which indicated that Ministers had connived to steal the Emyooga money and that there was nothing on the ground at all. She said these are haters who wanted to antagonize the President with political leaders like herself only to end up dying in their movie.
She explained that the President was pleasantry surprised to interact with ordinary Kampalans in the Metropolitan districts who authentically shared experiences and demonstrated to him their success stories, a thing which disapproved lies haters had been portraying to him.
That, to avoid manipulated testimonies, the people the President interacted with to share person experiences about the Emyooga impact were selected, vetted and validated by his own officers from SFC who ensured none of them was fake.
Minsa Kabanda said the President was greatly and motivated to invest more money in Kampala under the Emyooga and PDM interventions, contrary to what haters wanted. The Kampala Metropolitan Affairs Minister revealed that days after the tour, the President personally called her and a few other concerned Ministers to register his appreciation while encouraging them to keep up the good work.
She explained that the President was happy that this time round he was able to interact with real organic persons and beneficiaries from Kampala, randomly chosen by his SFC team, which enabled him to get first hand information without anyone being coached or manipulated on what to say to him. She added that this is why the President ended up pronouncing himself on interventions which are going to impact the real jua kali low-income people who operate in Kampala.
She gave the example of the community members in Busega for whom the President will be buying land to set up several common user facilities besides capitalizing their SACCOs. She gave the example of fish dealers around Busega who directly interacted with the President and thereby getting him to understand their operations and ended up offering to build for them fish processing and preservation facilities which will support value addition and boost their business operations.
Minsa Kabanda said that because he was motivated to see the impact small interventions like Emyooga were having on low-income Kampalans, Gen Museveni had decided to expand the annual allocations coming to the 99 parishes making Kampala City and all the parishes in Wakiso district. Because they have a larger population regardless of geographical size compared to rural ones, each parish in Kampala will be annually getting Shs400m under PDM as opposed to Shs100m which was originally meant for every parish of Uganda.
Minsa Kabanda thanked leaders like Haruna Kasolo, the Emyooga Minister, for the job well done adding that this Shs400m per parish per year will accelerate the economic transformation of the people in Kampala and other Townships located under the Metropolitan Area.
She also said that the private phone call from the President had re-energized her to work even harder as the country counts down to 2026. Minsa Kabanda, who is the NRM flag bearer for Kampala Central MP Seat, asserted that with such increased interventions from the central government, President Museveni’s opponents within the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area will soon run out of what to say against the NRM. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
