Tayebwa rallies Kasambya women on saving culture

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MUBENDE - Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has asked women to build a saving culture.

While addressing a crowd at Lwegula Primary School in Mubende district on Sunday, May 12, 2024, Tayebwa said: “I know that we do not earn the same amount of money but whatever amount that you get, learn to save a little of it. Stop spending recklessly”.

He made the remarks during the belated Kasambya County Women’s Day celebrations organised by the area MP, Daudi Kabanda, who also doubles as the secretary general of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU).

International Women's Day is celebrated every March 8. This year's theme was: Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress.

Tayebwa also appealed to the residents of Kasambya to embrace the various government poverty eradication programmes such as the Parish Development Model (PDM) and Emyooga.

While addressing his voters, Kabanda thanked them for turning up in large numbers despite organising the event on short notice.

“We are celebrating the belated Women’s Day but we are also celebrating Mother’s Day. I want to thank the wonderful women who nurtured and raised me into the man that I am now,” he said.

“After the death of my father, I was raised by my mother and aunt who toiled to see that I can have the best in life and here I am as your area MP. Come 2026,” he added.

Michael Mawanda interacts with Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa. (All Photos by Simon Peter Tumwine)

Using the same platform, Kabanda appealed to parents to desist from discriminating schools within the community.

“I studied in Kasambya from Primary one to seven. I am proud of my primary school and I am now the area MP,” Kabanda said, adding that when Gen Muhoozi Kanierugaba was appointing him as PLU secretary general, he didn’t mind about his academic or historical background: "Still, he just saw my potential and appointed me".

“Just take your children to school because if they are to be a great person, nothing can stop him or her,” Kabanda added.

Fort Portal City Woman MP Judith Mukidi said under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government, women have been empowered, and that they have been given the liberty to come to the front and for the people that they lead.

The event was graced by various MPs and musicians such as David Lutaalo, and Gravity among others.