Educated youth should vie for LC positions

The year 2017 has opened with a topical discussion regarding arrangements to conduct local council elections. Indeed local councils have continued to play a pivotal role in laying a firm foundation for Uganda’s democracy. Think about numerous family wrangles, conflicts over land, and other related aspects like theft that continuously characterise any village lifestyle. All this is brought to control at large by local councils. They also ensure security of respective villages.
It is also true that Uganda is among the best East African countries with a rising number of skilled graduates.
Irrespective of this trained workforce, unemployment remains high apparently standing at about 83.2 per cent as revealed by Uganda National Bureau of Statistics. This has forced may of this unemployed workforce to turn to informal employment such as riding boda bodas as well as manning mobile money outlets. The rest of this redundant workforce has risked to seek for foreign employment in places such as the middle east.
However, we apparently need this workforce to aid our country in empowering local communities towards economic, social and political prosperity. Uganda apparently needs local councils that will encourage food stability in homes by monitoring food security plans for each home.

We need skilled labour that will sensitise the local communities about the dangers of people taking law in their hands. It is for instance factual that domestic violence seem to be on the rise as well as murder cases. Uganda needs local councils that will champion public health measures in each homestead.
The country needs a strong community-policing backed by other security organs but supported by local councils. Uganda needs local councils that will aid a local person to be in position to sell his or her produce in an organised manner without being cheated by middlemen who can access markets.

All this needs a young and vibrant skilled youth to put into practice what was acquired in institutions and universities. I, therefore, highly encourage skilled youth to participate and offer themselves for leadership positions in the coming local council elections in order to help mobilise local areas to lift Uganda to ‘a drive to maturity stage’ in economic stages of development. Gone are those days when local councils positions used to be perceived as for uneducated . In fact, these positions need skilled personnel of which our society is apparently suffering from available numbers. Together we shall ably deliver Uganda to her destiny of remaining the pearl of Africa in all perspectives.
John Vianney Ahumuza,
Lecturer,Uganda Christian
University Mukono