Youths in Kamuli have been cautioned against politicking because they will be used and dumped by politicians; instead, they should use their youthful energy to productively build themselves up so that they stand alone as self-made persons who value work and discipline.
This counsel was delivered by former Bugabula South Member of Parliament Proscovia Salaamu Musumba while meeting with the Magogo Sub County Youth Brigade, who paid a courtesy visit to her home in Namwendwa, Kamuli District, on Tuesday, 15th April, 2025. She encouraged the youth to live exemplary lives.
“Reset your mindset to food security and income generation and invest your energy and resources in personal health and incomes because development is not in politics but in your mind. I have lost more than five times but continue to live better because I reset my mind to home, food, and eating healthy,” Salaamu assured the youth after touring her multiple food and health security model projects.
Salaamu regretted that despite being endowed with land, Busoga remains food insecure and the youth spend most of their time talking politics and waiting for the “season” of elections. She said the youths are misused to fight other people’s personal wars, yet they are given peanuts. She added that because they fear taking risks, the youths wait for handouts from politicians.
“My change point was when I was the district council chairman. I used to receive people crying and begging for something to buy food. Buying food—imagine! I started a local food farm on my two-acre courtyard. It now has everything my body wants.
If Uganda got, God forbid, into chaos, I could be locked in here for two months without getting out to look for food but remain healthy because all the food, fruits, and local medicine are here in the Shalom Salaam Food Security Project,” she assured and inspired.
She also showed them her prized coffee plant, whose mother stock was two coffee seeds she brought from Pakistan.
Godfrey Isota, the youth team leader, said their association, founded in March 2024 with only 30 members targeting Emyooga, now has over 100 members. He said they were inspired by radio talk shows about social change. Today, he says, they can attest that it is not politics but hands-on work through which one can survive.
The youth said that they have always been misfiring by asking for balls from politicians. Now, they are going to start small, localised projects for development.
Salaamu gifted her guests with startup packages containing the Pakistani coffee seedlings, local medicine trees, vegetable seeds, and pesticides.
