Kampala, Uganda – East Africa / September 18, 2024.
During his speech in the Ugandan parliament, Mr. Boniface Okot, the NRM Youth Representative for Northern Uganda, urged the government to support the Karamoja Peace and Technology University (KAPATU) as a way to promote sustainable peace and address the high number of Karamojong street children in Kampala.
“Mr Speaker, recently, I met a team coming from a university that is in Karamoja called KAPATU – Karamoja Peace and Technology University. I listened to their very unique teaching methods and proposed approaches. They are prioritising sustainable peace in Karamoja through some of the faculties that are proposed therein. This university certainly needs support. They shared with me the nature and ways through which they are trying to acquire support, mostly from the private sector.” Mr. Okot said on the floor of parliament in Kampala.
Mr. Okot’s full submission can be viewed on page 35 of the official copies of the Parliamentary Hansard, attached below: