By Charles Katabalwa,
KAMPALA
The Opposition Democratic party (DP) Women’s League has challenged the government over failure to prioritize education.
Sarah Adong, the party’s Women’s League President said during a conference at party’s headquarters Balintuma Rd in mengo on Tuesday, that government is deliberately failing education system through poor salary pay of teachers, poor school infrastructures mostly in government aided schools among other.
Adong says for years, Ugandan begged for better schools, more teachers, and decent facilities but in vain.
She called upon the first Lady and Minister of Education Janet Kataha Museveni to task the government to prioritize the education system to allow Ugandan children access quality education.
On the same presser, the former Kampala Lord Mayoral candidate on the DP ticket ,Beatrice Mao criticized the government’s decision to expel traders, boda boda riders, and taxis from Kampala streets.
Beatrice argued that the government should have put in place alternative measures before taking such a drastic decision.
Last week, the minister of Kampala, Hajjati Minsa Kabanda announced that KCCA was going to start implementing all ordinances to maintain trade order in Kampala.
Trade order is a core mandate of KCCA under the Kampala Capital City Act of 2010, supported by the Trade Licensing Act and the Local Governments (Kampala City Council) Maintenance of Law and Order Ordinance of 2006. City bylaws also require street traders to operate only with permits and within approved trading areas.
Kabanda observed that during the recently concluded national elections and the Christmas festive season, there was a rise in commercial activity in unauthorized locations, including streets, road reserves and pedestrian walkways which resulted into city congestion, sanitation challenges, blocked walkways, traffic disruption and increased public safety risks. The authority gave a two weeks ultimatum to vendors to vacate Kampala’s streets effective February 19, warning of stricter enforcement.
However, Beatrice argued that the government can’t just wake up one day and say let people move without minding their livelihoods.
She also questioned the government’s allocation of markets for the vendors, saying they are not suitable for a good working environment.
