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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | Statistics body, Uganda Bureau of Statistics said it will use sports as one of the avenues to help it popularize the forthcoming housing and population census in August 2023.
Sport is a uniting factor in Uganda. Whereas Uganda is a very disunited country, when it is sports and it is Uganda Cranes playing, all of them are there. It becomes organically so if we can embrace all games and we will achieve unity in the country. We are going to use sports to promote the census,” said UBOS Executive Director, Dr Chris Mukiza.
He was speaking to UBOS’ football team that presented to him a trophy they won recently during a tournament organized at Makerere University.
Dr Mukiza said using sports will be a cheaper way of popularizing the census and to this, he said UBOS teams will play with Members of Parliament, police, journalists, UPDF and other groups of people throughout the country as a way of popularizing and sensitizing the public about the census.
“We are going to look at it(sports) and see how we can mainstream it in our advocacy programs in every district. I think we should start sensitizing parliamentarians by playing with them so that when we go to ask for money, they know what we are saying.”
