RESOURCE CENTRE


NAMUTUMBA


27TH AUGUST, 2025





I wish to congratulate Busoga Farmers Resource Centre upon reaching the 12th Anniversary Celebrations. I appreciate the kind invitation extended to me, by Pastor Douson Musasizi, asking me to preside as Chief Guest at your anniversary. I have not been able to join you physically, due to the ongoing NRM Meetings and Conferences. However, I have asked Hajji Faruk Kirunda to represent me and deliver my congratulatory message.
I commend Pastor Douson Masasizi for his visionary leadership. He has been able to inspire the believers to not only work to go to heaven; but also to work towards achieving prosperity while on earth. It is important to note that human beings have both spiritual and physical needs. The Churches and the other places of worship i.e. Mosques, etc., cater for people’s spiritual needs. There are also physical needs for food, water, shelter, medicine, hospitals, schools, clothes, transport, jobs, etc. In a modern economy, you cannot obtain the goods and services, which are necessary to sustain life, without money. Moneylessness is solved by undertaking a profitable enterprise in one of the four sectors of: commercial agriculture, industries, services and ICT. These are the four sectors where you can create jobs and wealth.





Therefore, I am happy to note that Pastor Douson Masasizi is following the NRM line of pursuing both spiritual ends and the physical ends. In the process of working for heaven, some of the faithful become negligent about their earthly responsibilities and thereby end up perpetuating poverty in their homes. If we have spiritually seen the light, then we must do the same economically. We cannot see the spiritual light yet stay in economic darkness. Jesus Christ left a good example. He was deeply religious; but, also earned his living by working alongside his father, Joseph as a carpenter. He worked for both the spiritual and socio-economic uplift of his family and society. This is what all Christians must emulate.
I want to use today’s occasion to reiterate the NRM’s message on poverty eradication, at the household level. There are still 33% of the Ugandan households, who are still trapped in subsistence farming i.e. they work for the stomach only. This is dangerous in the modern era, where all goods and services needed to sustain life must be bought with money.


The government has put in place the necessary conditions to ensure the profitability of the enterprises i.e., the good





roads, electricity, peace and security; integration of the Ugandan market to the regional, African and international markets; pursuing policies that favour the private sector, etc. However, these economic advantages, that the NRM has created, must be translated into jobs and wealth for the households, in order for this development to be meaningful. The Parish Development Model and the wealth funds, are aimed at increasing the number of wealth creators engaged in production.
I once again congratulate you upon reaching the 12th Anniversary and wish you many more years of advancement in offering agricultural services to residents of Namutumba and to all Ugandans.


I thank you.