By KGR Reporter,
President Yoweri Museveni has attributed the poverty in the country to the failure of people to embrace government programs.
While inspecting different enterprises of farmers under the parish development Model-PDM program across the Busoga sub-region yesterday, Museveni said that he started economic empowerment programs in 1989 by steering the cattle farming communities to embrace value addition for their milk products.
He notes that this initiative succeeded in 1995, with Ugandan processed milk products filling the supermarket shelves, contrary to the earlier post-independence times between the 1960s-1990 when such items were only imported from Europe and Asia.
Museveni argues that, despite the success stories witnessed by beneficiaries of government-led development programs, some members of the public have opted to listen to detractors rather than pushing for their general welfare improvement. Mr. Museveni speaking…
Museveni said that, unlike the previous poverty alleviation initiatives, PDM funds are controlled by the beneficiaries themselves, which offers them all the liberty to drive their financial destiny. End.