The Minister For Presidency, Hon. Babirye Milly Babalanda has urged evening market vendors to maximize profits and secure their commodities to fight poverty in their respective areas.
During an area leaders meeting held yesterday at Ikanda Primary School, Ikanda Parish in Buyende Sub-county, Buyende District focused on poverty eradication, Minister Babalanda expressed concern over power challenges in some areas of Buyende District affecting the evening markets, causing insecurity, and causing losses to the market vendors.
“Some of our people in Buyende District have not yet received power and even those in areas where power is unstable are affected by darkness. Evening markets are only safe when there is light. Our people face a challenge of insecurity, getting fake money notes from wrong characters, loss of their items among others.”
“As we launch these solar lamps today, every trading centre in Budiope West will have to receive them to make sure that the above challenges are minimized,” she assured the local leaders As she donated solar lamps to the residents.
The Minister also praised local leaders who have taken the message of wealth creation from President Museveni as a serious agenda and asked everyone to come on board to support and fully participate in all government programs.
The Minister further reiterated her commitment to fostering the fight against poverty in Buyende district, empowering the education sector, transport sector, health, and safe water in the area.
“I started on the journey of fighting poverty by coming up with several projects and no one will be left behind and I just ask everyone to change their mindset. I started on the project of rehabilitating our roads and it will not stop. I am giving out boreholes in every parish so that we can have safe and clean water, now, solar lights and many other programs and coming to focus on improving the wellbeing of people and fighting poverty.”
“My boss, H.E. Rtd. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is ever on the ground to preach and teach people how to fight poverty, Who am I to sit and relax while my boss is busy in the field?, recently he visited us here in Busoga emphasising the agenda of poverty eradication”
The Minister also donated desks worth 1 million to Ikanda Primary School, cement to churches, 1 big saucepan and 100 plates per village to help the villages manage social gatherings.
The local leaders expressed their gratitude to the Hon. Minister for her tremendous support whenever there is a need.
The meeting was attended by RDC Buyende District, Major Betty, DRDC Mityana Prossy Mwanjuzi, ARDC Emmanuel Kabenge, several LC 3 Chairpersons, LC 2 Chairpersons, LC 1 Chairpersons and others.
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