Muvawala said that being wealthy should push individuals into setting up Small and Medium Enterprises which will foster the economic transformation of areas they hail from through creating employment especially for the youth.
BIRDC boasts of extracting flour from banana fingers, locally known as “tooke flour,” which is a raw material for several forms of bakery products ranging from cake, bread, chapattis, crisps, biscuits, porridge, etc, coupled with nutritious supplements, paper extracted from banana fibre, among other products still under study.
President Museveni argues that some PPDA protocols, which sound legally applicable in the course of procuring user items like machinery, are not friendly to large-scale industry setups.
Constructed in 1954 with the capacity of 35 bedrooms, two bars, two restaurants, two conference halls and a coffee bar, the government owned hotel has also been serving as the biggest training facility for UHTTI students, for hands-on skills.
Feasibility studies have identified Jinja city center, Jinja-Iganga highway, and Jinja-Lugazi road as the pilot routes for the electronic buses before expanding to other destinations.
The Jinja City Spokesperson, Rajab Kitto says that the operation was sanctioned early this week due to unregulated businesses that have been set up in the city.
While addressing Wazalendo’s annual general meeting at the Jinja city’s based Gaddafi barracks on Friday, Muhanga argued that several strong armies in the world are investing heavily in the service sectors, which empowers them to sustainably improve the livelihoods of their officers and militants.
Speaking to journalists, Tumusiime noted that the exterior structure, a standard fire station, water source, backup power systems, air conditioning systems, storage areas, and administration are complete. He says this will be followed by minimal technical fittings.
Jinja Storage Terminal (JST) which has been managed under a Joint Venture Partnership between One Petroleum Limited (OPL) consortium and Uganda National Oil Company Limited (UNOC) will now fully be under management and operations by UNOC effective 23rd December 2022.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, the Jinja Resident City commissioner, Darius Nandinda told URN that they covered a meeting with the two contestants, who unanimously agreed to vote from a neutral venue outside the market premises.
A team of UNBS inspectors sealed off the maize mills on Wednesday after the operators failed to present their operating licenses and clearance from local authorities.
The dozens of residents who converged within the contested land say that the area is surrounded by schools and homes and any attempt to establish a sugarcane plantation would make it a hub for criminals.
In explanation for the city's worrying road status, the Jinja city spokesperson, Rajab Kiito says that the city lacks funds to address the challenge of poor roads, but they have planned to refurbish 3.5 kilometers of roads, at a cost of 16.5 billion Shillings this financial year, through funding from the USMID project.
Gabula said that Busoga kingdom has a bottom-top approach system, of rallying communities to involve themselves in economic transformation initiatives, from the village clan heads all through to the royal chiefs’ cabinets.
According to Nabwiso, Queen Elizabeth traveled along with tourists and investors who returned after her visit to set up factories mainly for ginning cotton and producing textiles. “Her visit earned Jinja town then, world-class publicity across international media outlets, which attracted several investors to the area hence earning its name of the industrial town of Uganda and East Africa," he told URN in an interview.
Controversy arose when Parliament called for the cancellation of the event, which, according to legislators, is a forum for promoting immorality. Although Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja says the event has been cleared to take place under strict guidelines, the Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has insisted on the cancellation.
The campaign involves sensitization of communities in safeguarding electricity lines, on the newly amended electricity act, with emphasis on the penalties involved.
