The Head of State H.E Yoweri Museveni has promised to provide the much-needed funds amounting to Shs1.5 billion to purchase land on which the first ever girls’ university will be constructed in Tororo district.
The amount is to cater for land measuring 50 acres that has already been identified by Tieng Adhola Cultural Institution according to His Royal Highness, Kwar Adhola – the King of the Jopadhola where the university will be.
Kwar Adhola Owor on Thursday led a delegation from Tororo for a meeting with Museveni at State House, Entebbe, where the matter took center stage of the discussions.
“I can pay 500 million now and I will have a billion in the next budget, ” Museveni said.
The president however reminded the delegation that government’s policy is to have one public university per zone.
“We do not want to create a situation where we have two public universities in the same region yet other regions have not received any,” he emphasized.
The land, according to Tieng Adhola Cultural Institution, was secured from the Benedictine Fathers of Tororo but the catholic church had threatened to sell it to other high paying interested parties after the kingdom failed to raise the funds.
Relating to the matter, the cultural institution had proposed to upgrade and transform Tororo Girls School into a university, but the school board of directors opposed the idea and advised them to look for land for the construction of a university in order to keep and restore the historical glory of one of the country’s top schools.
