BY: Mboowa Nathan
NUP YOUTHS CALL UPON THE NEWLY APPOINTED YOUTH MINISTER TO HELP THEM ON RELEASING YOUTHS ARRESTED ON POLITICAL GROUNDS.
The newly appointed Minister of State for Gender, Labour, and Social Development (Youth and Children Affairs)Balaam Ateenyi Barugahara has vowed to assist in releasing innocent National Unity Platform party youth members who were imprisoned on political grounds.
Barugahara says that after his appointment, a group of NUP youths wrote to him requesting him to intervene in the release of their fellow youths saying the NUP leadership has not helped them.
He has also promised to work on early pregnancies amongst teenager and also ensure that justice is attained by the victims.
“I am going to deal with the increasing unemployment in the youths by encouraging setup of jobs and access to startup funds” Byaruhagara said .
He made these remarks after his vetting at Parliament before the appointments committee chaired by the speaker of Parliament Anita Among.
Meanwhile both the State Minister for Disaster Preparedness Lillian Aber and the state minister of Energy Phiona Nyamutoro have promised to work with others in the ministries and start from where their predecessors had stopped.
