Musasizi expresses concern over increased cases of vulnerability among the youth.

By Sophan Niwamanya

apearlnews.com

The State Minister of Finance in charge of general duties, Hon. Henry Musasizi Ariganyira, has expressed his concern over increased cases of vulnerability among the youth, especially girls, in the country.

Minister Musasizi expressed his concern during an exclusive interview with journalists in the Kabale district over the weekend at the White Horse Inn Hotel at Makanga Hill, central division of Kabale Municipality.

Minister Musasizi said that vulnerability changes over time because of many of the processes that influence it, which he termed dynamic, including rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, market conditions, and demographic change.

He attributed cases of vulnerability to lack of savings (also the absence of a ‘savings culture’), death of a breadwinner, drought, pests, and crop diseases, unemployment or loss of job, cost of fees for secondary and tertiary education, taxation, and confiscation of merchandise by tax enforcement officers.

He said that however many cases of vulnerability are on the rise, the government has continued to enhance interventions to reduce poverty and diseases by establishing a health center 111 at every sub-county and a health center 1V in every constituency, building a primary school at every parish and a secondary school at each sub-county, and implementing government programs aimed at giving economic empowerment to Ugandans.