Ssenyonjo, who is also the chairperson of Mengo Lukiiko’s Education and Social Services Committee, stressed the issue of preservation of traditional cultures and heritage.
The 1st Deputy Sekiboobo (Mengo government chief for Ssaza Kyaggwe) Moses Ssenyonjo Kiyimba has cautioned Kabaka’s subjects to be wary of imminent negative developments which may culminate into bloodshed basing on current political trends in the country characterized by election related disharmony.
Ssenyonjo was officiating as chief guest at the end of year MDD festival and Top Class graduation for Rock of Ages Day and Boarding Primary School at the school’s campus located at Kiwanga Cell in Goma Division, Mukono Municipality.
He said the kingdom is for peace and prosperity for all people residing and working in the monarchy’s borders regardless of their origins, and that as such, all are under obligation to work in the spirit of unity which is a cherished issue in the kingdoms’ key policies.
Ssenyonjo, who is also the chairperson of Mengo Lukiiko’s Education and Social Services Committee, stressed the issue of preservation of traditional cultures and heritage. He castigated school managers who punish learners speaking their mother tongues at school, saying this is counter-productive.
He cited developed nations like Spain, China, France and Italy where he said, English is not the language that immediately bails one out, and that it may take some time before an interpreter is identified to help an English-speaking foreigner who could be in need of any service in those countries.
Mukono Municipal Senior Inspector of Schools, Olivia Bulya suggested that as government thinks of higher remuneration for secondary and higher-level teachers, priority consideration should be given to nursery section teachers who she said go out of their way to teach young ones’ literacy and numeracy from infancy, with no regard to what they will be in future.
“I am irked when I hear teachers up there fighting for salary increment without ever stopping to think of their kindergarten teachers who began on them when they could even hardly pronounce words in their own languages, and I think the government should take special consideration for nursery teachers as well,” Bulya noted.
She was backed by Mukono Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Hajat Fatuma Ndisaba Nabitaka, the Director of the School, when she advised Ugandan voters to keenly look at politicians seeking parliamentary representation, and elect only those with prospects of furthering such suggestions.
Ndisaba noted that as RDC, she makes monthly reports but, she added, parliamentarians with access to the floor of parliament can do a better and faster job, and hence urged voters to seriously think about whom they decide to represent them in the forthcoming elections.
The RDC also appealed to municipal authorities to consider upgrading roads from the highway to their school and other institutions in the locality.
