President Museveni, who is also the NRM presidential candidate has told the people of Nakapiripirit in Karamoja sub-region that government has a lot of goodies for them in the coming term.
Museveni who was speaking during a rally at Namboole II grounds at Naturum village in Nakapiripirit town council in Nakapiripirit district said having ensured peace in the region, government focused on development.
“There is electricity, telephones and piped water. You see we have covered almost everything for you. The tarmac road is here, electricity is here, telephones are here,” Museveni said.
“I see in terms of clean water you are far better than Amudat. Out of 209 villages, 172 have access to safe water. This is 82.3% and leaves only 37 villages without access to safe water but they will also get.”
Dams
Museveni told the gathering that government has completed the construction of Aooyalet Valley Tank in Loregae Sub-County with a storage capacity of 40 million litres as well as Komaret Valley Tank in Moruita with a storage capacity of 20 million litres.
He also mentioned four valley tanks including Karengeze with a capacity of 20,000,000 litres in Moruita Sub-County and other dams as Lomogol, Lokitela-Alokwa and Lomosomosoi.
“We are planning Namalu largescale irrigation scheme with 11.8 billion litres. This will irrigate 750 hectares, Lowoyakur dam together with Amudat and Lodoket Small-Scale Irrigation Scheme in pipeline. This is also part of development,” he said.
According to Museveni, whereas Nakapiriprit has 27 government primary schools and seven secondary schools, there are bigger plans for the district.
“The plan is to have one government primary school per parish and one secondary school per sub county.”
Health facilities
Museveni said of Nakapiripirit’s nine sub-counties , one has a health centre IV, and three have health centre IIIs with only five sub-counties not having any health facility.
“The plan is to upgrade Moruita health centre II in Moruita Sub-County to a health centre II, Lomuronyagae health centre II in Kawaach Sub-County to a health centre III and also have a hospital or health centre IV for each constituency.”
He also mentioned the ongoing construction of Lemusui health centre III,new Akuyam health centre III in Kakomongole Sub-County and the the new Loreng health centre III in Loreng Sub-County.
On roads, Museveni said a total of 180.4 km have recently been paved mentioning Nadunget - Iriiri (65.6km), Kokeris – Matany (5.5Km), Namalu – Nakapiripirit (17.0Km) and Akisim - Moroto – Lokitanyala (92.3Km).
He also mentioned several roads still under construction, naming the Moroto-Lokitanyala (42 km) and Muyembe-Nakapiripirit (92 km) among those.
Wealth Creation
Museveni told the gathering that despite the development achieved, there is need to focus on creating wealth for themselves.
Giving examples of successful members of society, in other districts including Abim , Museveni said it is possible for everyone to get out of poverty by embracing the government message of wealth creation by starting small.
He urged them to make use of government programs like Parish Development Model and Emyooga to create wealth.
“For example, Emma Lokong from this area got shs1 million in PDM and used part of the money to rent land and planted crops and got 14 bags that he took to Soroti market. From the money he bought four pigs and when I visited, he was having 35 pigs. This is the third point of the NRM contribution to Uganda. "
"Lokong who was not employed himself is now employed and employing five other people. This is from commercial agriculture. Through this we can create wealth. Get out of the thinking that jobs are only in government. If you get a leader talking like that, know he is asleep."
Nakapiripirit’s 35 parishes have received shs10.5 billion and shs10.3 billion has been disbursed to 10,338 households.
The district has a total of 26,984 households.
For Emyooga, the district has a total of 35 saccos with 8,635 members and government has so far disbursed shs1.7 billion.
