The Masaka Diocesan Catholic Bishop Serverus Jjumba has challenged the government to dedicate efforts towards enhancing industrial productivity as a remedy to youth unemployment.
Bishop Jjumba says that it is high time the country took deliberate interventions that aimed at building a sustainable economy, bent on ensuring that the majority young population is equipped with skills that can harness industrial productivity, which will eventually improve people’s livelihood.
In his homily during a mass he led to commemorate the 40th anniversary of St Charles Lwanga Technical Institute Butende in Masaka, Bishop Jumba observed that the majority of Ugandans in the informal sector are less skilled which affects their productivity hence affecting the quality of their lives.
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He indicates that this will deliberately close the underlying gap between the services sector and the country’s production capacity. END.