His Exellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to launch Ghetto SACCO’s in Mbale .
In the aim to empower the “Bawejere” country wide , his excellency will be gracing event according to Mbale Assistant RDC Bwire James.
This comes after Brig Gen Damulira Christopher earlier this week with the state house comptroller madam Jane Barekye delivered motor bikes and pledges by H.E in Bwaise Gaza Ghetto.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on 31st July 2024 met the leaders of the ghetto SACCOs in Kampala Metropolitan Area at State House Entebbe.
The group included 100 ghetto youth leaders who are also the heads of the 12 ghetto SACCOs in Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono. The beneficiaries of the SACCOs are from; Rubaga Kakeeka Zone dwellers, Kasangati Ghetto Community, Kampala Central Division, Nakawa Division, Makindye East, Kawempe South, Makindye west, Kawempe North, Mukono industrial, Kasokoso, Nansana division and Masajja Para Zone ghetto in Makindye.
During the meeting, the President underscored the role of the ghetto people in the liberation of Uganda.
“What you call ghetto people, in the 1950s used to be called “Abawejere” and they were centred around Katwe. When Uganda was fighting for Independence, much of the activities were around Katwe and I think the first offices of the Uganda National Congress were located in Katwe and that is where I think Dr. I.K Musazi and Dr. Barnabas Kunuka and others operated from. Even Augustino Kamya who organised the boycott of Indian goods in 1958 was from Katwe,” the President said.
“I linked up with the ghetto in 1968. I was there, Katwe is my place. I was not a ghetto boy myself; my background is in the villages with farmers. That is where I came from to go to university, but we (Student movement) wanted to link up with the “Bawejere”. The Head of the abawejere that time was Abbas Kibazo whom they used to call “Ssabawejere” so I linked up with them. So, this story of saying this is my first time to link up with the ghetto is not true,” he added.
