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The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Mrs Janet Kataha Museveni has cautioned youths not to be tempted to leave Uganda and spend their early years in other countries looking for employment.

“Please do not be tempted to leave the country, to spend your early years of strength and productivity, developing other countries, at the expense of Uganda’s socio-economic progress and your very lives,” Ms Museveni said during the seventh National Youth Convention in Kyankwanzi on September 24.

She added, “You are all aware that Uganda including many other African Nations, has experienced several cases of young people, who have faced immense abuse and trauma, sometimes resulting in losing their lives, while working as immigrant labourers in different nations.”

The First Lady emphasized that admired countries were built by their citizens through hard work and sacrifice

“We must understand that those countries we admire and would give and would give anything to live there we built by their citizens. They were willing to do everything to build their countries one brick at a time. It took them years of hard work and sacrifice to get them to where they are. Our own homeland deserves no less determination.” She said.

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