I would limit foreigners, set minimum wage

Restore term limits
The Constitution would be amended to have a maximum of two terms for both president and Members of Parliament. Members holding these positions will be held accountable after their service in office and thus reducing corruption and wastage of public funds in unnecessary activities.

This will also teach Ugandan leaders the habit of continuity in leadership. Most Ugandan leaders think that they need to finish up whatever they start, which is not the fact. One can start a project in his term of office and leaves it for another person to accomplish. We must respect continuity of leadership in Uganda.
Reduce number of districts

This will reduce the wastage of tax payers’ money in terms of payments to government officials. Such huge sums of money will be diverted to agriculture, the backbone of Uganda. Every district will have an agricultural office that would provide free agricultural services like soil sampling, before one grows crops, he should plant crops that best suit the soil type to avoid poor yields.

Decentralisation of power
After reducing the number of districts, power will be decentralised to regions, i.e. central, northern, eastern and western Uganda. Regions will have governors. Meetings will take place at regional level where MPs will meet their governor after which the proceedings will be discussed in the governor’s session with the president and Cabinet. Under this, decentralisation by delegation will be applied

Delegation: Allocation of power by the centre to other levels of government in what remains essentially a unitary state, in which the Centre retains authority to withdraw the delegated power or to direct its use. Typically, the power delegated is executive or administrative power, or minor law-making power.

This will help to distribute public power broadly so as to achieve more effective and responsive government, to broaden access to government services and economic resources, to encourage greater public participation in government, to provide a basis on which often diverse groups can live together peacefully, and to underpin the stability of the State, by persuading groups to remain within it.

Restore cooperative societies Farmers of different agricultural crops and animal products will have societies where the government can easily support them financially and also find market abroad for their products. And in terms of surplus, where the prices tend to lower, the government will buy such products at a price that will leave the farmer in business and store them in its buffer stocks until the prices are fair again in times of scarcity. This will reduce exploitation of farmers.

Change the curriculum
The Ugandan education system tests memory than the skills attained. More so, the system prepares more job seekers than job creators, this has led to the drastic increase in the level of unemployment. It is not good to have a lot of unnecessary courses offered at the higher institutions of learning with less or no jobs for such students in the job market These courses in fact are the ones with the highest number of students because they seem to be simple while pursuing them but with no jobs at the end of the course.

I will set up a professional body to review this curriculum from primary level to tertiary. Emphasis will be put from senior one to higher institutions and also construction of more technical institutions.

Regulate foreigners
Work permits are not supposed to be optional for foreigners. No foreigner should contest for any leadership position in Uganda and each business/factory should have a given limited number of foreigners. They should also be limited to investors’ businesses, not an investor to come and sell pancakes. All this will help in increasing employment opportunities for the citizens.
Set up a minimum wage policy
A minimum wage would be set for all professional jobs and this would reduce the exploitation of workers in different sectors.

About the author
Name: Safik Kiwedde
Nationality: Ugandan
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