Why did MP Acon advise youth to focus on brick making?

Otuke East Member of Parliament Julius Acon Bua has advised youth looking for vocational employment to engage in brick making for sale.

Acon noted that the construction of classroom blocks under the Universal Primary Education programme is one way of making money rather than wasting time on activities such as playing cards and doing Boda Boda business, which cannot lift them out of poverty.

MP Acon made this statement on Saturday while handing over three new boreholes to the community of Otuke East. He noted that youth can venture into brick making using the new boreholes.

He added that every year the government releases a lot of money for classroom construction under the School Facility Grant and Classroom Construction Grant, which the youth can take advantage of to develop their areas and concentrate on brick projects.

Apart from the construction of schools, there is also un upgrade of some health centres and the construction of new sub-county blocks, all of which require bricks.

The total number of boreholes Acon has drilled currently stand at over 163 and he has pledged to continue serving his people whether it is dry season or wet season, without any segregation.

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“I want youth to join the brick-making business so that people buy from them for the construction of their houses and they become millionaires, so that we fight together for social economic transformation in our society,” MP Acon said.

Each borehole cost shs25 million, meaning the three will cost about shs75 million.

Meanwhile, some local leaders who spoke after receiving water sources include Peter Okweda Ogwete, LC3 chairperson, who said that for a long period of time the community of Olwedo village, Amuga parish in Ogwete sub-county had been sharing water with animals due to the shortage of access to a clean water point.

“But today, we would like to appreciate MP Acon’s initiative to ensure that the little that is getting from Parliament has been put to use,” he said.

Okweda said that as a leader at the lower local government, they are also requesting the government to come in and support what MP Acon is currently doing.

Lastly, he called upon other leaders in Otuke district to copy the strategy from MP Acon rather than just sitting and waiting for more government programmes, so that our community looks different and it can be presented that this person is coming from Otuke.

Patrick Eyen, LC1 chairperson of Odike village, Ating parish, Orun sub-county, said his village has a population of over 498 people with 97 households, and out of that high number of people they were having only one borehole.

To avoid overcrowding, the community started fetching water early in the morning from 6am up to 11pm.

“Today we are so blessed and full of joy to have another water point that has been drilled by MP Acon Bua,” he said. He finally concluded that this is going to reduce the issues of domestic misconduct caused by delays of a child or a mother at the water point.

Adol Martin, a local council chairperson of Ociro village, Anyalima parish in Ogor sub-county, told journalists that his village has over 378 people and in the past they were crying although they had a borehole, but it was not enough to benefit everyone.

“So we want to appreciate in a special way MP Acon Bua for doing consecutive work that even the government cannot do, because in a year they cannot even receive a donation of a borehole from the government,” he said.

One month ago, Acon also drilled three new boreholes immediately when he came back from America.