Baryamureeba to overhaul education system
Budaka- Independent presidential candidate Venansius Baryamureeba has pledged to overhaul the entire education curriculum to ensure it produces “thinkers and innovators” to tackle the unemployment crisis.
“The current education system needs total overhaul because the teaching curriculum in various institutions is partly irrelevant. Just elect Prof Baryamureeba to implement this,” he said while addressing supporters at Budaka Taxi park in Budaka District.
“Schools continue to teach our children that [John] Speke was the first missionary to discover the source of River Nile. This is totally untrue because where were the Basoga?” he asked, adding that, “mentalities of this nature have to be changed through an overhaul of the entire curriculum to suit the modern times”.
He also promised that his government will also provide computers to each student in all public institutions, and ensure that each sub-county has a secondary school, with well-trained and paid teachers, equipped with text books and staff quarters built.
The former Makerere Vice chancellor also pledged to set up a moral re-correction centre that will address issues related to homosexuality to make Uganda a no-go area for this western practice.
Prof Baryamureeba, who is giving the top seat a try for the first time, used his campaign trail in Budaka District to promise that his government will address the issues of deplorable roads.
“I heard that this government has time and again promised to tarmac Tirinyi-Pallisa-Kumi and Tirirnyi-Kamonkoli roads for the last 15 years. This is just mockery by NRM and this justifies why people are still very poor under this regime. But Prof Baryamureeba is there to ensure expansion of road networks across the entire country,” he said
He also promised to increase the agriculture budget to 15 per cent of the national budget, a sector he said employs more than 70 per cent of Ugandans.
“This sector is under-funded and is the reason Budaka District and the entire country is swimming in abject poverty,” he said.
He promised to broaden the tax base and empower Ugandans through income- generating projects like rearing goats, which he said has international market.
Prof Baryamureeba also promised to reduce the size of Parliament, saying government expenditure on the 435m MPs is too big, yet this money can be used on construction of hospitals, schools, teachers quarters and increasing salaries.
