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President Museveni has guaranteed to give Shs 2 billion to the Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation (SACCO) of the women’s council affiliated to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), the governing body of Muslims in the country.

The money is geared towards backing the economic prosperity for the Muslim women in the council.

“I will mobilise 1 billion now and 1 billion in July, next year,” President Museveni said in response to the event’s co-emcee Ms Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye’s request asking for funding to support women in the council.

He made the pledge while speaking at the inaugural Muslim women leaders conference at the field grounds of Old Kampala Senior Secondary School on October 8 which was organised under the theme, “the role of women leaders in socioeconomic transformation.”

The head of State further applauded the Muslim community for achieving remarkable success in the respective fields of their faith and education sector.

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