{"id":46958,"date":"2021-04-23T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=46958"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:19:41","slug":"janet-asks-new-mps-to-popularize-upe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/janet-asks-new-mps-to-popularize-upe\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet asks new Mps to popularize UPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">BY ARTHUR ARNOLD WADERO<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">The Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni has asked the newly elected NRM MPs to strongly popularize the government&#8217;s Universal Primary Education (UPE) once they take oath next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">Addressing the MPS who are gathered at the National Leadership Institute (NALI) Kyankwanzi for a three-week long retreat, she asked the MPs to start the UPE campaign from the village level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cThis effort must be championed at the grassroots, in the rural areas where most of our people live. Who is better suited to champion this than you Members of Parliament who represent and live among our people?\u201d Ms Museveni said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">According to the minister, this is part of the socio-economic transformation drive government intends to, among others, enforce at the start In the party\u2019s five-year long term that tips off next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cThe socio-economic transformation we are talking about begins from the family unit. As a leader, you cannot help other families if your own family is not in order,\u201d Ms Museveni told the Mps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">Kataha has also advised them to have a clear vision and mission and also closely relate with people they represent in Parliament by placing focus on families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u00a0\u201cYou cannot lead others if you cannot manage your family. Let the transformation begin in your family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">She also indicated that would bolster Uganda\u2019s literacy levels that have since have grown to 74 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cIn our quest to establish a quest to establish a public primary school at every parish, we were able to gran-aid 23 newly constructed community primary schools to increase on the number of Parishes with at least one public primary school in the ;last two years,\u201d Ms Museveni said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cOur national literacy rate now stands at 74 per cent. We have a total of 15,102,868 learners in our schools and institutions,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ARTHUR ARNOLD WADERO The Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni has asked the newly elected NRM MPs to strongly popularize the government&#8217;s Universal Primary Education (UPE) once they take oath next month. Addressing the MPS who are gathered at the National Leadership Institute (NALI) Kyankwanzi for a three-week long retreat, she asked the MPs to start the UPE campaign from the village level. \u201cThis effort must be championed at the grassroots, in the rural areas where most of our people live. Who is better suited to champion this than you Members of Parliament who represent and live among our people?\u201d Ms Museveni said. 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