{"id":26402,"date":"2022-02-15T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=26402"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:38:12","slug":"busoga-owes-govt-nothing-rdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/busoga-owes-govt-nothing-rdc","title":{"rendered":"Busoga owes govt nothing &#8211; RDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Jinja Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr Elijah Madoi has said \u201cBusoga sub-region has no reason to demand help from government because everything has been done for them to prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the 15 years I have served as RDC in this region, I have found that most resourceful people in offices are from this region and I wonder why the region continues to be associated with poverty and domestic violence,\u2019\u2019 Mr Madoi said.<\/p>\n<p>Citing former Speaker of Parliament Ms Rebecca Kadaga, Chief Justice emeritus Wako Wambuzi, former Vice President Specioza Wandira Kazibwe and ex-NRM party Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba, Mr Madoi government is supposed to demand from Busoga and not the vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese would do everything possible to influence development and help the government in promoting development instead of demanding it,\u201d the RDC said as he addressed agricultural stakeholders in the area- during a consultative meeting on national organic agricultural policy in Jinja City.<\/p>\n<p>The crop production commissioner in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Alex Lwakuba, backed the RDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy with the remarks made by the RDC, and if we can only have ten leaders in every district with a similar attitude then organic farming, that is advantageous in fighting poverty because of the ready market for the products, will succeed,\u2019\u2019 Mr Lwakuba said.<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive officer National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda [Nogamu], Mr Charlton Namuwoza, said organic farming is being promoted in the country following a discovery of ready domestic and foreign market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are promoting organic farming because no chemicals are used and the products from it are on demand both internally and abroad,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Government, through Nogamu, has started establishing special markets for organic products so that farmers enjoy competitive prices and ready markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe farmers will only need to be issued with certificates certifying their products and they stop having limits in selling their products,\u201d Mr Namuwoza disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Jinja LC5 chairman, Mr Moses Batwala, said he will directly be involved in encouraging people to shun chemicals in farming and turn on organic farming.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Batwala, however, disagreed with the RDC, saying leaders have not done much to deliver Busoga out of poverty, but kept begging the government for help.<\/p>\n<p><b>[email protected]<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. 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