As President Yoweri Museveni continues his Parish Development Model (PDM) assessment visit around the districts of the Teso sub-region, it is an exciting week in Teso.
Museveni opened the zonal presidential skilling hub, which was created in 2023 to train both educated and uneducated young, on the second day of his regional visit.
Museveni spoke to hundreds of people at the center and urged Teso’s youth to pursue technical education.
“You’ve witnessed the value of these classes. If some of the actors hadn’t obstructed our efforts, we could have done more for all the other young people,” Museveni stated on Tuesday, November 19, 2024.
He denounced as enemies of development those who dissuaded young people from acquiring vocational skills.
The Chinese ambassador to Uganda, Zhang LiZhong, echoed the president’s statement and praised the Ugandan government for promoting technical and vocational skills training among young people.
According to LiZhong, this kind of training is essential to resolving the nation’s unemployment problem and achieving social-economic change.
LiZhong went on to say that the best way to equip young people to be job creators rather than job seekers is through vocational education, which he claims will address Uganda’s unemployment issue. On October 28, 2024, the ambassador observed the signing of a memorandum of agreement between China’s Seventh Group CRSG and Buhimba Government Technical Institute in Kikuube area.
He asserted that China flourished as a result of the government’s backing for corporate vocation education, saying, “Vocational education is very important, [because] it creates capacity building and it creates economic development.”
The President started his regional wealth creation evaluation visit in Teso on Monday, and this tour is a part of it. Teso leaders have come together as a result, and they will be with him on all of his tours to the places he has chosen to visit.
The President also had the opportunity to speak to the Soroti leaders, who had assembled in large numbers to greet him in Soroti City.
He is an action leader who prefers to be on the ground to determine whether the resources that the State House has are adequate Government sends to his people benefit him,” said Dan Mulalu, the senior private secretary in charge of political affairs and service delivery at State House.
Charles Elasu, the president’s adviser on Teso affairs, greeted the president upon his arrival in Teso and thanked him for his consistent role as primary watchdog over government initiatives.
Even though there aren’t any reports of resource theft, Elasu stated that it is appropriate for him to take the time to observe how government initiatives are helping the populace.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Anita Annet Among welcomed the president, who traveled to three districts of Serere, Kapelebyong, and Katakwi, on Monday.
Musa Ecweru, the works state minister, welcomed the president to Kepelebyong district. He then concluded his visit at the vice president’s farm, owned by Jessica Alupo.
Museveni will hold a public rally following a media briefing at the state lodge in Soroti City. Museveni is wrapping up his visit in Kaberamido district today.
The stories of those who have benefited from the government’s poverty-alleviation programs impressed Museveni.
Vincent Obodo, a former security chief for former President Milton Obote, whom his family believed to be deceased, was also met by the president. After returning empty-handed on Friday, May 7, 2021, Obodo, 85, had been hankering after a meeting with the president till Tuesday.
