Students demand answers on youth fund

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University students have challenged the new Shs256 billion Youth Livelihood Fund, arguing that it is a new campaign tool to hoodwink youth ahead of the 2016 General Elections.

During a public dialogue organised by the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), Gender and leadership Club at Nkumba University and Uganda Youth Network last week, the students said government announced the Youth Fund towards the 2011 election but it did not work out because of the conditions one had to fulfill before obtaining it.
“Why is this new Youth Livelihood Fund only targeting school drop-outs and leaving out the graduated youth who may not be potential candidates to easily be hoodwinked again?” Mr Ken Seruwagi, a first year student pursuing business administration, asked.
Ms Grace Obalim, the president of the Gender and Leadership Club Nkumba University, said that it is very absurd that the new Fund looks at projects like video-audio editing and poultry rearing that could have less market among the rural youth.
“This is a ploy to hoodwink the poor youth because there are many unemployed graduates that the Fund has under looked,” she said.

Link to this story: Daily Monitor

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