President Yoweri Museveni has advised the people of Kasese district in Western Uganda, to use proper methods of cultivating on the hills to prevent soil erosion.
“The other problem is government officials who have not advised you on how to do agriculture on the hills. What you are doing now is that you are donating soil to the valley. When it rains, the water washes all the soil to Lake Albert .Very soon, all the soil will go,” he noted.
The President, who has resumed his tour of Western Region to popularize the wealth creation operation, was today addressing a huge public gathering at Kabutunda Primary School play-grounds in Kyabarungira Sub-County of Busongora North Constituency in Kasese district.
Mr. Museveni, therefore, advised wananchi to construct contours in their gardens on the hills that will stem soil erosion so that the trapped rain water is allowed to sink into the ground. He called on the people of Kasese to make use of the new government’s programme overseen by Army Officers who are distributing plantings breeding materials to families.
He, at this juncture, introduced to the gathering Army Officers who will be coordinating the distribution of seedlings to wananchi in the Rwenzori Sub-Region. The Officers include Colonel Charles Muhumuza, Lieutenant Colonel Meddy Baguma, Major Barnabas Bwambale, Major John Baptist Katusabe, Captain Tom Bamwite and Captain Fabian Kule.
President Museveni, at the end of the rally, asked wananchi to observe a one-minute silence in remembrance of one of the prominent elders and a great community mobiliser in the area, Mzee Yokasi Kabwamba, who succumbed to cancer in October last year.
Earlier on arrival, President Museveni flagged off the construction of the 17 kilometre Kamwani – Mbata – Kasangali road.
The President was received to the Rwenzori Sub-Region by the Minister of Defence, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga and Kasese district officials.