Minister Engola urges Oyam residents to embrace PDM

LIRA– State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Charles Okello Engola has called upon residents of Oyam district to take advantage of the Parish Development Model [PDM] to increase production.

The minister made the call on Saturday while addressing mourners at the burial of the late Kuranimo George Opota in Awangi village in Iceme Sub-county. Opota, the father of Tekwaro Lango Prime Minister, George Ojwang, died on March 3, 2023.

The minister further advised civil servants, political, religious and cultural leaders in Lango Sub-region to closely monitor the implementation of the programme to ensure that it registers success after five years. President Yoweri officially launched the PDM in February 2022.

The PDM aims at moving households still trapped in the subsistence economy to the money economy by emphasising agricultural value-chain development to increase commercial production.

Under PDM, each of the 10, 594 parishes in Uganda is expected to receive Shs 100 million every financial year to operationalise the Parish Revolving Fund [PRF] as one way of empowering communities to engage in commercial enterprises such as coffee growing, piggery, and poultry keeping among several others.

According to the Ministry of Local Government and the PDM Secretariat, one year down the road in the implementation of the programme, 8, 654 PDM SACCOs in the country have been earmarked to receive PDM funds against the target of 10,594.

Okello Engola the PDM is one of the best among many programmes the Government initiated to eradicate household poverty.

“PDM is one of the best approaches aimed at wealth creation but I want to caution the corrupt that none of you will be spared if we hear of cases of mismanagement,” he said.

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