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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni has criticised Acholi leaders for failing to unite locals to embrace his poverty eradication strategies.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Museveni said his desperate moves to get the people of Acholi Sub-region out of poverty had been deliberately frustrated by political leaders.<\/p>\n

The President made the remarks while assessing the progress of works at the Atiak Sugar Works in Pachilo Parish, Amuru District, at the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe political leaders, please stop diverting our people. While I was coming here, I drove for some distance (about 13kms) up to here and I only saw some small garden of cassava, I didn\u2019t see any other commercial crop other than the cassava,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to the head of State, while opposition politicians have boycotted his strategies, specifically the four-acre model, his representatives in the region, including the RDCs have slept on their job.<\/p>\n

\u201cHon [Kenneth] Omona (State Minister for Northern Uganda), what is happening in this area? Why don\u2019t we have some fruit trees and coffee? What is the problem? What is happening here? Where is the pressure?<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the MPs (here) are from the Opposition, but now you, Omona, and the RDCs are here. If these people don\u2019t want to listen to my advice and only want to produce for the stomach, then it is you and RDCs work to promote that (my) message,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

The Amuru RDC, Mr Stephen Odong Latek, had reasoned that land conflicts were impeding the government\u2019s strategies to promote agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have challenges to do with the land tenure system. Apart from the tension within the families about land, the majority of our population are now products of (resettlement) camp life and most of them are lazy,\u2019\u2019 Mr Latek said.<\/p>\n

But Mr Museveni said he will soon set up a demonstration farm in the sub-region, as he did elsewhere, to illustrate to the people his four-acre model.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are sleeping and they have also left the land to sleep. I am going to carry you people to the government farm in Lango, Barlegi, and when I get some land here, I can also come and set up one so that you can learn from it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While touring the sugar plantation and launching the newly acquired machinery for the plant, Mr Museveni applauded the investor for embracing technology since the use of out-growers and manual labour would make the communities around the plantation poorer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company can grow their sugarcane and they no longer need the out-growers, which is what I warned Madhvani Ltd about because sugarcane is not a high-value crop, it should never have been grown by the smallholders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe smallholders should follow our four-acre model of 1996: One for coffee, one for fruits, one for cows, and one for food, fish farming, and poultry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Francis Mwebesa, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, said the factory would steer development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese include increased incomes for farmers and the wealth of the community; employment; promotion of commercial farming; promotion of exports; and finally, the factory will act as a pillar to attracting more investments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The government owns 40 percent shares in the factory and has invested Shs485.1b in the plant owned by Horyal Investment Ltd (with 60 percent shares).<\/p>\n

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