The State Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs Huda Abason( in photograph below) has assured Ugandans that Uganda has weathered through big storms and that the the current high costs of fuel and other products will also be handled.
She said through both international and national measure the costs will be lowed and the country will again get back to a steady economic path towards development and economic recovery.
She said Uganda had come through Kony War(northern Insurgency), floating islands on lake Victoria, locusts in the north and the two Covid waves and that the current economic stress due to high fuel cost and for other domestic goods will also be addressed.
She saluted Gen. Salim Saleh for pushing for the establishment of Uganda Development Forum. The Forum which bring all development actors and government agencies with a view of coordinating them is some sort of both economic and political think tank where ideas are incubated and shared to government to influence government policy,programs and projects aligning them to the economic agenda of national economic transformation and development.
Abason Made the remarks yesterday while crossing the UPDF conference held at Kawumu Presidential Agricultural Demonstration farm in Semuto district.
She said President Yoweri Museveni’s leadership and his team are sober and will steer Uganda forward and there is no need to worry about Uganda’s Economic and social life.
She saluted the UPDF for creating peace, without which there can not be development.
Dr. Fred Muhumuza, Prof Augustus Nuwagaba,Ms Anne Juko the Chief Executive officer of Stanbic Bank, the MUBS boss Waswa Bulunywa discussed Museveninomics in the conference.
The Objectives of the Forum is to support the NRM government headed by President Museveni to develop Uganda by especially coordinating government agencies and Ministries to work together.
