President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has promised to back retired Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo’s revival plans for Acholi Sub region and calls for intensified wealth creation drives for the area.
President Museveni commended Justice Owiny-Dollo for acknowledging the need to prioritize wealth creation as acnchored in the NRM ideology for socialeconomic transformation that has been under implementation since the 1994 initiated as Entandikwa to other landmark wealth creation initiatives that include Operation Wealth creation, NAADS and Parish Development Model among others
While speaking at the former Chief Justice Owiny Dollo homecoming and Thanksgiving at Kaunda Sports Grounds in Gulu City Yesterday March 14th, President Museveni noted that many actors in leadership had failed to identify the major distinction between wealth creation and development which stalled earlier socialeconomic transformation strides by government and applauded Owiny-Dollo for embodying the concept
President Museveni has committed to support Retired Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo’s community revival for Acholi initiative and guided the people of Acholi on the 7 viable sectors for wealth creation as he commended them for convergence to the wealth creation message.
The President applauded the retired Chief Justice for outlining the significance of wealth in households and referee them to study his presidential farming interventions at Baralegi State Lodge for guidance and commended Retired Chief Justice on his incorruptible character during his stay in the country’s judicial service.
President Yoweri Museveni notes that he has never heard of any personal involvement of Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo into any corruption scandal and applauded him for his outstanding performance and national service and applauded Retired him on fostering Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms in the national judicial system.
Earlier, the former Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo declared “Community revival for Acholi” as his next course of action to drive wealth creation for all homesteads in Acholi sub region.
According to Owiny Dollo, Acholi Sub region has a deficit in wealth creation caused by historical wars and conflicts that wallowed the sub region into poverty for long and revealed his vision to spur people centered wealth creation initiatives involving indigenous communities and conversion of unutilized large expanses of land into productivity.
He explains how operation wealth creation chief General Salim Saleh has so far aided the implementation of mechanisation of agriculture in Acholi and told people to stop the rhetoric war-talk and embark on the socialeconomic revival of their households.
Former Chief Justice Owiny Dollo has pitched an irrigation scheme for government to to be established at Agoro to boost farming in the area and asked government to interrogate the impact of socialeconomic empowerment funds injected into northern Uganda and Acholi Sub region in particular.
Gulu City Mayor Alfred Okwang Earlier gave a spotlights about the ongoing government development interventions in Acholi Sub region that he said are directly aiding socialeconomic transformation of the area and development
These include the 10 million liter water supply system constructed by government to draw water from Karuma to Gulu City, the progressing Tororo-Gulu railway construction works, the regional cancer treatment center, a logistics hub and agro mechanisation support to the sub region through religious institutions.
Mayor Okwang asked President Museveni to elevate regional socialeconomic empowerment initiatives, fast track the construction of a specialized Hospital at Gulu University and considerations of the cattle restocking initiative using the national census data to ascertain real beneficiaries.
While speaking at the same event, the National Resistance Movement Party Secretary General Hon Richard Todwong challenged public servants from Acholi Sub region to draw a balance between work and relationship with their communities and to be impactful.
Hon Todwong said that retired Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo is a living testimony to those values and urged those still in active service to emulate him for a descent retirement and has commended President Museveni for embracing and nurturing leaders from Acholi Sub region.
He revealed that the recent general elections cemented the relationship between the NRM, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in particular and the entire Acholi Sub region as was demonstrated in the election results and challenged the people of Acholi to stick bond with the NRM government for a better future.
Political leaders from Acholi Sub region applauded Former Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo for the transformative role he has played in the dispensation of justice in Uganda at the time he superintended over the country’s judicial system.
In their joint statement read by the Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Hon Hillary Onek, Leaders from Acholi Sub region noted the linkage between the judiciary and communities initiated by retired Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo, the peace drive initiatives through negotiations to end the LRA war by pursuing the war lord Joseph Konny among other national attributes he demonstrated during his tenure and chief Justice can not be overlooked.
Minister Onek further explains retired Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo’s nonsectarian and non biased judgment precedents and thanked President Museveni for granting Retired Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo to serve humanity
The Chief Justice Dr. Flavian Zeija commended retired Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo on fostering and guiding reforms in the Administration of Justice in Uganda through advocacy for alternative dispute resolution centered around communities and the people, bridged traditional justice system and drew courts closer to the people.
The Chief Justice’s message was read by the Principal Judge of Uganda Jane Frances Abodo and described retired Chief Justice Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo as a tower of inspiration to the judiciary and his precedence is well anchored in the national justice archives.
