By Chris Mugasha
Local leaders from Kiruhura district were on Friday left speechless after touring the Bushenyi based banana factory. The leaders instead turned against the saboteurs of the project.
“We are surprised to see such a development in our region and the country at large,” said the Kiruhura district chairman Mukago Rutetebya.
“What is here is totally different from what we have always heard about this banana project,” Rutetebya noted.
Rutetebya was on Friday leading a delegation of Kiruhura’s top district leadership that toured the banana factory.
Rutetebya was leading Kiruhura district’s top leadership, the district councilors and technocrats who visited the Bushenyi based banana factory.
Since its inception, PIBID has been facing opposition especially at the floor of parliament with MPs and Ministers attempting to broke its funding. However PIBID has lived to challenge the saboteurs by evolving into a state of the art banana factory with products on the market.
“Why is the person leading such an innovation being the most hated in the country yet she has been at the helm of turning around the banana industry?” the chairman asked. The leaders saluted Muranga for proving wrong the saboteurs. “What we have seen is a dream that has come true,” a visibly excited Rutetebya said. The leaders hailed the president Yoweri Museveni for not listening to the saboteurs but instead persisted on to make sure that scientists continue with the project and research.
The PIBID Director General Rev. Prof Isabirye Muranga said they have so far made some success stories saying banana products have already started to penetrate the markets including the international ones.
In 2005, Muranga had an encounter with the president, and the president was impressed with the professor’s research. Two years later, the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) was established. The program is an aggressive food-value addition effort, yielding a range of matooke byproducts including; tooke biscuits (cookies), tooke powder for porridge, tooke flour for matooke meal and bread-making, matooke chips for snacking, matooke flakes for cereal, matooke starch and others. End
You people your not serious for sure you only take the bananas for those people you deal with but others you don’t why?? Am from rubrizi mwendemu
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You need to visit them and get more clarification.