Japan-Uganda Sign
Poverty Alleviation Contract
Godfrey Olukya, Kampala
Japan
and Uganda have signed a grant contract for five grassroots
projects, amounting to over four hundred million dollars.
Speaking at signing ceremony at the Japanese embassy in Kampala,
Japanese ambassador, Keiichi Kato states that the government of
Japan funds such projects through a grant assistance for
grassroots human security projects, a financial scheme intended
to support community based development programmes.
The grants will fund several projects in education, water and
sanitation as well as initiatives in various communities, geared
at fighting poverty especially in rural areas.
Allocations
The Amuria local district authorities received US.$84,997,
Isingiro got US.$.86,824, Pader was allocated US.$.84,054,
Wakiso; US.$.90,741 and All Nations Christians Care got
US.$.62,259.
Gay Bill amendments
Meanwhile, after criticisms from a section of Ugandan people,
including donors, clergy on the homosexual Bill, the Ethics and
Integrity Minister, James Nsaba Buturo has said that the bill
will go through some minor changes before being passed into law.
The minister said in Kampala on Tuesday that the sections that
prescribe the death sentence for a person who, through
aggravated homosexuality, inflicts another with HIV-AIDS and
that which recommends harsh punishment for anyone engaging in
the act will be scrapped before passing the bill into an Act.
The Ethics minister urges the legislators not to be compromised
by external forces in the process of drafting and passing the
‘Gay’ Bill into law.
He advised foreign powers to stop impacting inhuman behaviours
unto Ugandans, what the country needed was partners in
development and not in promoting a practice which it is
convinced, is illegal by Ugandan laws, abnormal by its cultural
standards and religious values and therefore unacceptable.
Yinka
