Paved road to facilitate trade President Yoweri Museveni has expressed Uganda’s gratitude to Britain and its Department for International development, (DFID) for funding the Ntungamo-Ruhaama-Kagitumba Road upgrade from gravel to a paved surface. The President said at Ruhaama Sub-county grounds, the venue for the project’s ground breaking that by supporting, “This facility that will facilitate trade, the British government had taken the right decision. It is a good investment for Ugandans and the East African region as it is good for our partners in the United States of America and United Kingdom--they will buy more from us and we shall buy more from them.” He said the future of the world is through trade, “Recently traveling through Europe and USA, I found that there was an inadequate demand for goods and services, yet in African the demand is going up. The purchasing power is still low but growing.” President Museveni noted that the proportion of Ugandans in the money economy is still low; the 2002 census revealed that only 32% of the population was in the cash economy, the rest in subsistence, only growing food to meet domestic needs, without bothering about money. He therefore urged every family to engage in commercial agriculture and benefit from roads upgrade like this one.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:10:50 +0000
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