The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) leader Joseph Kabuleta has rallied the people of West Nile to unite and work together if they are to overcome the economic challenges they face in the sub region.
Kabuleta made the call last week while traversing the West Nile sub region.
The former presidential candidate is currently on nationwide sensitization campaign premised on protecting Uganda’s national deposits that could be used by citizens to alleviate themselves from poverty.
He said all the problems, West Nile and other sub regions are facing, are due to bad leadership.
“I have discovered that the problems facing all the sub regions we have been to and probably those we are going to are the same, only spoken in different languages. Like in other sub regions, West Nile is also faced with poverty, unemployment, poor quality education among other problems and its all caused by bad leadership,” Kabuleta affirmed.
“If your to develop, you should first know that all our problems are the same and we are all affected the same way. You should unite if we are to overcome the problems we face as ordinary Ugandans. That’s how you will survive poverty.”
He also suggested that before resources are taken to the national cake level, the indigenous people where they come from should first have a fair share.
According to Kabuleta, this would help the locality to empower and enrich itself economically.
The politician further cautioned the people of West Nile against asking for a Minister in charge of their sub region because they will gain nothing from such establishment apart from creating more avenues that could be used by government to steal their resources.
NEED, a political movement under the stewardship of Kabuleta has so far managed to spread the economic empowerment message to Buganda, Bugisu, Bukedi, Teso, Sebei, Lango, Acholi and West Nile sub-regions.