NRM LEADERS IN WEST NILE URGED TO PRACTICE 4-ACRE MODEL AS EXAMPLES

Leaders of the ruling NRM in west Nile during their regional mobilization meeting at Eripark Hotel, Arua City. (Photo By Erema)

By Erema George

Arua City

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) politicians across west Nile have been tasked to embrace fruit growing at their homes in order to set examples to their subjects as part of poverty eradication process in the region that has for decades remained the second poorest in the country.

Speaking during the party’s regional mobilization in Arua city ahead of the women council and local council I elections on July 23rd at Eripark Hotel, Rose Obiga, the woman Member of Parliament for Terego district urged the leaders to forget the grudges that politics brought but rather focus on changing the face of West Nile;

“We have not gone there to fight, if you scratched me, I scratched you it ended. We’re now here to work, we’re here to change West Nile because were tired of been called the second poorest. How can I lead the team that is called the second poorest?” Obiga questioned.

Hon.Rose Obiga (Left), the woman Member of Parliament for Terego district and the vice chairperson for the West Nile parliamentary COCUS pose with a colleague after the meeting.(Photo by Erema)

Obiga urged the leaders to be exemplary to those they lead by embracing planting fruit trees in their homes in order to attract their subjects to copy from them;

“I am begging all of you, I mean all of you. If you don’t have a fruit on your compound, it’s now you go and plant for me two avocadoes, two jackfruits and two other fruits. Kindly lets change the face of west Nile. Let’s do something unique, it’s me and you to do it and there’s nobody to do it. These people have done their part. It’s now our part because we live with the people and if people will see it on your compound and my compound then it will be different.”

Fred Jachan Omach, the National Resistance Movement vice chairperson electoral commission at the party said for long the president of the country has rallied the citizens to embrace farming calling upon leaders to be examples in its implementation;

“The president has been preaching about the 4-Acre model, he is now tired and you are not implementing. So there will be a time that he will now come to check, yes I have come to your place, where’s your 4-Acre.have we all got it?”

The 4-Acre Model is an agricultural strategy championed by Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni to shift smallholder farmers from subsistence to commercial agriculture. It advises farmers to divide their land into four sections to ensure food security and maximize income with one acre for high-value cash crops, one for fruits, one for pasture, and one for food crops.