By Denis Okello (denis.okello@vol.co.ug)
Dokolo
Dokolo South MP Felix Okot Ogong has asked people implementing a presidential directive against wetland cultivation not to evict people in-discriminatively from the wetlands since some of them had their homes submerged by floods from rising water levels from the lakes.
Okot Ogong who was speaking yesterday in Dokolo town council during a function organized by Gudie Leisure farm to equip a group of youth that had attained training in business skills and agriculture with tools to train more youth in these enterprises.
The 18 youth groups from the 18 parishes in Dokolo district received projectors, solar panels, phones among others following their five week training held in Wakiso district.
Okot said the implementers of the presidential directive should sensitize people on how to use the wetlands to benefit them as opposed to evicting them.
Okot Ogong also agreed to offer his land in Dokolo town council to the youth for establishing a business center for selling agricultural products. He further pledged to offer 2000 tree seedlings and chicks to locals to support their livelihoods.
Executive director of Gudie leisure farm Prof. Guduca Naiga Basaza said they are targeting to train 500,000 youth who dropped out of school in 27 districts across the country and they have so far trained 112,000 youths.
Guduca said they have chosen Dokolo district for tourism promotion and plan to bring in a number of tourists in the district in September this year.
She asked people to utilize their resources well to support developments.
Teddy Okot Ogong the coordinator of Gudie leisure farm said they have trained 95 youth in Dokolo district business skills, health promotion, chicken feed production and animal production among others and they will go out to train other youth on these enterprises.
Dokolo district chairman James Otto Apili asked government to prioritize such youth who have been trained to benefit from the parish development model.
Dokolo RDC Barbra Akech tasked the youth to embrace a saving culture to support future developments.
