The Uganda People’s Congress UPC has appealed to the government of Uganda to focus on productive areas such as sports which comprise the majority of youths while budgeting for the nation.
Giving remarks, ahead to the international Day of youth, the UPC national youth leader, Dan Isimbwa indicated that it is through sports that the youths in Uganda have been to get employment opportunities and also rise the country’s flag high, giving an example of Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei the recent victor of the men’s 10.000 meters at the olympics in Paris.
On Wednesday, at the party headquarters in Kampala, Isimbwa added that for Uganda to thrive in the future successfully, it should focus on the youths because they comprise the biggest percentage of the nation.
“The legacy and values we desire to carry forward must be passed on to the youth at an early stage, which calls for adequate preparation of our younger people at all levels, this goes with mentorship, training, education and inspiration. Talents must be identified at early stages and groomed. By now, Uganda should be having several of Joshua Cheptegeis, our newly crowned 10,000 meters Olympic Champion 2024 such that upon retirement as he has already indicated, there is continuity of the talent and no vacuum left behind at all.”
Isimbwa added that If the world continues to neglect the youth question, it will provoke and force the youths to come up and assert their voice as witnessed in the immediate neighbor of Kenya which continues to experience Gen Z demonstrations.
This also forced President William Ruto to withdraw the Finance Bill 2024 and the subsequent firing of his entire Cabinet and opting for a national dialogue. “In Uganda, the youths took to the streets and wanted to march up to the National Assembly to express solidarity to the anti-corruption fight that was declared by the government which was foiled by police.”
Therefore UPC reiterates its call to release all the youths who were recent arrested during the anti-corruption demonstrations and instead listen to their concerns as opposed to the ruthless response against them, he said.
In West Africa, Nigeria, the youths have declared a 10-day strike across the country against hunger, In Asia, Bangladesh, the demonstrators, mainly the youth, broke ranks and captured the State House thus forcing the country’s leader to flee to neighboring India. These are no longer early warning signs of the youth question but becoming a big crisis which Uganda and the entire world needs to give utmost attention as it celebrates the International Youth Day.
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