UPE food confusion affects pupils

By Gaster Bamwange

Mayuge - Difference in approach between the President and the former LC V chairman on how to feed pupils under the Universal Primary education (UPE) has led to poor academic performance in the district. Since the inception of UPE in the 90s, President Yoweri Museveni directed that parents pack food for pupils.

But in Mayuge the president’s directive was defied by the former LC V chairman Baker Ikoba Tigawalana, who instead directed all parents with children in

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