By kyamanduma patrick
President Yoweri Museveni has warned locals in the West Nile region to desist from borrowing Parish Development Model funds to bury their dead relatives.
The model is a government strategy for organizing and delivering public and private sector interventions for wealth creation and employment generation at the parish level as the lowest economic planning unit.
It was launched in February last year with a goal to lift about 17.5 million Ugandans out of poverty by transforming them from subsistence to a money economy. Mr.Museven on PDM 1…..
He advised the beneficiaries to borrow the funds to buy seedlings to plant coffee and fruits, especially for people with small acreages of land adding that those with huge chunks of land can grow sugarcane and practice ranching.
Meanwhile, the president reiterated that the government will not allow the PDM funds to be diverted by selfish individuals, warning that those who will mismanage the funds will suffer dire consequences.
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The President made the remarks yesterday while addressing leaders from the region at the Arua Golf Grounds