President Yoweri Museveni has unveiled a new 20-point development agenda, \u00a0emphasizing his promise of turning Uganda into a middle income country within the next four years.<\/p>\n
At yesterday\u2019s cabinet briefing held at State House Entebbe, the president is said to have listed 18 action priority points that\u00a0he wants his new government to concentrate on in the next five years.<\/p>\n
However, before cabinet adopted his \u201cnew\u201d plan, ministers added two points on his list of priorities: the need to support the water sector so as to enable the widening of safe water coverage and the need to intensify resource\u00a0mobilisation as a strategy for fulfilling the agreed upon priorities.<\/p>\n
At the inaugural cabinet meeting last week, the president had listed 15-priotity points,\u00a0prioritizing the need to aggressively look for investments and listed corruption as the second issue that needs to be addressed in order to drive Uganda a middle income country.<\/p>\n
However, during the second cabinet meeting the president added three more points and the minister added two before he officially unveiled his \u201cnew\u201d 20-point plan for Uganda and for the first time promised to hold periodical meetings with ministers and technocrats in the various dockets to assess progress, focusing on specific deliverables and indicators he listed.<\/p>\n
The three points added by the president are; improving government communication; the need to support the judiciary with all the human and financial resources so as to improve the justice system and the fight against crime and then, the issue of urban physical planning.<\/p>\n
According to a statement by Information and\u00a0ICT Minister,\u00a0Frank Tumwebaze , The president stressed that\u00a0organised urban planning is not only good for the environment, tourism but a great enabler for job creation through\u00a0organised urban trade.<\/p>\n
A statement released by Information and\u00a0ICT minister also confirmed president\u2019s 20-point programme, repeating some of the things the President had promised to work 30 years ago. For instance, in his revised 10-point\u00a0programme of 2012- the 10 key bottlenecks, the president had promised zero tolerance to corruption, improving education to refine human resource,\u00a0modernising agriculture, job creation among others. Some of these priorities were also part of the president\u2019s old 10-point programme.<\/p>\n
Under the\u00a0ICT sector,\u00a0Mr\u00a0Tumwebaze said, in the medium term, \u201cthe President wants the Ministry of\u00a0ICT to start and build a strong department of electronics that will ensure assembling of computers among other electronics.\u201d \u201cThe president wants to see responsible and disciplined media reporting that is not injurious to the\u00a0image\u00a0of Uganda and tasked government agencies to always communicate timely and factually about government work and thus the reason he merged the communication agencies into\u00a0one ministry for easy\u00a0coordination.<\/p>\n
He also stressed\u00a0was the need for developing technical capacity in the field of electronics to do intelligent monitoring both by modern\u00a0IT systems\u00a0and knowledgeable Electronic engineers whose skill and capacity he directs the ministry of\u00a0ICT to build.<\/p>\n
Story By Yasiin Mugerwa<\/p>\n
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