George Johnson Ojok Ocen, Kwania District Production Coordinator, says farmers can potentially earn about 13 million shillings per acre of cocoa annually. He said cocoa can thrive anywhere in Northern Uganda if farmers provide adequate trees for it.
The residents say that the weighbridges had created a sigh of hope, through extending employment opportunities to youths in the area, who are currently left jobless.
Amos Olal Odur, the former Academic Registrar of Makerere University who is now the chairperson Alebtong District Service Commission castigated parents for taking Universal Primary and Secondary Education to be free education. He said government cannot provide everything for every learner and so parents must take up the mantle of educating their children.
