President Museveni told local leaders to check every parish and count families who escaped poverty through the Parish Development Model program. He spoke to officials from Mpigi, Butambala and Gomba districts at Gombe Secondary School. The president wants real numbers instead of guesses about program success. Leaders must walk among their people and track actual progress on the ground. He called the effort a war for evidence rather than political campaigning.
Museveni compared the task to finding lost sheep mentioned throughout Biblical stories. Officials should leave their offices and learn people's names and struggles personally. The president warned against promising everything at once because development takes time and must follow...