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NRM DELEGATES CONFERENCE 2015Address by the Chairman
General (RTD) Yoweri Kaguta MuseveniNAMBOOLE
I greet all of you the delegates of the
National Conference. I extend condolences
to all of us for those of our members who,
since the last conference, are no longer
with us on this earth. Let us stand up for
a minute of silence to remember all those
comrades that left us. May their souls
rest in eternal peace.
Ekibazibira:
One of my grandfathers named one of his
daughters, my aunt, “Ekibazibira” (what
stops women from getting successful
marriages). In otherwords, the common
mistakes that disrupt marriages. Many
years later, I came across one of our Judges
from Busoga with the name: “Ekirikubinza”(what will cause you a divorce). The same
concept of what problems that will cause
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the failure of marriage. The two names,
from the different parts of Uganda, are
male chauvinist attitudes of the African
communities of our area that held the
women were solely responsible for the
success or otherwise of marriages.Nevertheless, the concept of indentifying
the obstacles that can block the progress
or success of something desirable is well
brought out by these names.
Strategic Goals and Strategic
Bottlenecks:
Over the last 50 years, I have come, along
with my colleagues, to clearly identify theunavoidable desirable strategic targets for
our people and the strategic bottlenecks
that block the achievements of those
targets (ebizibira, ebilemesa, ebirobera,
Teso-elolong, Luo-aranyi, Lugbara-aku-
anziza). Over the years, we have correctly
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targets and the blockages that obstruct
the obstacles that block the achievement
of those goals and of the remedies to
those obstacles have been captured in
the 10 points programme promulgated
at Kanyaara, the 15 points brought outat Jinja, the four NRM Principles and
other NRM documents. Therefore, on this
occasion, one way of restating the diagnosis
of our problems and the prescription of
their cure is to bring out the two parts by
answering three questions.
The Questions:
Question number one: “What are thestrategic goals of the people of Uganda
and Africa?”
Number two: “What are the strategic
obstacles to those strategic goals?”
Number three: “How far has the NRM
gone in pursuing the realization of the
strategic goals and in removing the
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strategic bottlenecks?” Answering these
questions will simplify for the population
the understanding of our strategic goals,
the obstacles we have had to deal with,
how far we have so far gone and, of
course, what we intend to do in the further
execution of the plans for the realizationof our strategic goals.
Prosperity and Security:
The strategic goals of the Uganda people
and their African brothers and sisters
should be: “prosperity and strategic
of prosperity, we are talking of prosperitythrough production and not through
parasitism. Production means production
of goods and services, not, as already
pointed out, through parasitism. When
I produce a good or a service, somebody
must buy that good or service; otherwise,
I become bankrupt. Moreover, the more
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people that buy my goods or services, the
more prosperous I will become and the
more prosperous will the wider society
become. How? It is because I will employ
more people whom I will pay.
The more prosperous the business, the
more raw-materials from agriculture,
consume depending on the sector the
business is in. The more taxes the
business will pay, the more prosperous it
is, etc. etc.
Patriotism and Pan-Africanism:It is this realization by the NRM and its
precursors that the most fundamental
legitimate interest of the people is
prosperity, that led us to evolve the
principles of patriotism and Pan-
Africanism.
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Down with Sectarianism:
It is this realization that led us to hold
in contempt and revulsion the bankrupt
notions of sectarianism of tribe and
religion and gender chauvinism. The
realization of the need for the prosperity of
our people, through production, led us tothe conclusion that the more people that
a political unit has, the better. This is
in sharp contrast to the Katangaists and
Biafrans who, opportunistically, wanting
to base their prosperity on minerals
found in their regions, proclaimed: “The
fewer the better”. That realization led
them to secessionism. That led us to ask
two questions: “What is more important
the natural resources?” As to the question
of interests versus sub-identity, the NRM
discovered and emphatically stated that
the people’s interests were more primary
and important than the issue of the sub-
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identities. On the question of natural
resources versus the human resource,
the NRM discovered and emphatically
stated that the human resource was more
important than the natural resources.
Do we need proof? It is there in plenty.
the world, have got plenty of the human
resource and scarcity of the natural
resources. Examples: China, Japan,
oil), Nigeria (plenty of everything), Uganda
(plenty of everything), etc., etc.
Economic Integration: Therefore, in pursuit of the need for the
prosperity of our people, the NRM stands
for patriotism within Uganda (rejecting
sectarianism of religion or tribe and gender
chauvinism) and for Pan-Africanism in
Africa. Pan-Africanism has two elements
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integration. Economic integration aims
at aggregating our fragmented markets
on account of colonialism so as to create
more space for our producers of goods and
them. Political integration, aiming at the
Political Federation of East Africa, aimsat curing another problem that we shall
shortly address.
Symbol of the East African Community
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With economic integration, in search
of prosperity, we aim at the formation
of the common market of the whole of
Africa. We have already succeeded in the
resurrection of the EAC and the formation
our brothers and sisters, working on the
for the Common Market of the whole of
Africa. This will ensure that our goods
and services will be sold in the whole
length and breadth of Africa. The present
population of Africa is 1.23 billion people.
The population of Africa in 2050 will be 2.5
billion people. This is the greatest wealthof Africa. This educated and healthy
population will be consuming more (thus
constituting a huge market) and producing
more. With this huge market, we can
also negotiate, credibly and sustainably,
China, Russia, India, Brazil, EU, etc.,
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The African population – source: Electronic Urban
Report
President Museveni addresses the 70thUnited Nations General Assembly in New York, 2015.
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on a reciprocal basis. Internal strength
in Africa, will give us more credibility to
negotiate externally.
By achieving this goal of economic
integration and provided we solve other
strategic bottlenecks soon to be laidout, Africa will undergo fundamental
socio-economic transformation. The
African countries, including Uganda,
will individually, become First World
countries. Uganda will become a middle-
income country by 2019 and an upper
middle income country by 2040 provided
we solve the problems created by the other
bottlenecks.
However, before I talk about the other
conclude on the issue of the importance
of integration. Apart from the need for
prosperity as already seen, integration is
also for security.
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The ultimate security means the ability
defeating any aggressor on the globe.
The guaranteeing of our sovereignty
should not depend on anybody else
except ourselves and some like-minded
allies of similar interests and a common
was able to defeat the fascist aggressors
almost single-handedly. Nevertheless,
the Western allies, inactive for most of
the duration of the war, also made some
contribution albeit a minor one.
The question then is: “Can Uganda, even
guarantee our sovereignty against
or the future?” The answer is clearly:
war. France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark,
Norway were all conquered. Possibly,
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even the UK could have been conquered if
Hitler did not make the strategic mistakes
of bombing cities rather than bombing the
British Air force bases into submission
Germany’s ally, by attacking the United
which, eventually, brought about the defeat
of both Germany and Japan. Therefore,
becoming a First World country, per se ,
does not immunize us against aggression.
It is strategic strength that does that.
Political Integration:
How? By creating strength that deters any
aggressor. That is why political integration iscrucial. It is political integration that targets
security. Economic integration targets
prosperity. Of course, in the end, prosperity
also depends on strategic security.
The other strategic goal is socio-economic
transformation. It is also principle no.
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3 as far as the NRM is concerned. We
moving towards a middle-class and skilled
be achieved unless we solve the other
strategic bottlenecks. We have already
addressed the bottleneck of narrow,small markets. The answer for that is
economic integration. The other strategic
bottlenecks are:
Low level of human resource
development; the answer for this isimproved education and health;
Inadequate infrastructure (electricity,
the roads, the railways, piped water
for drinking, water for irrigation and
production, ICT, telephones etc.);this raises the costs of production in
the economy, thereby undermining
and the competitiveness of our
products;
Interfering with the private sector,
thereby killing their initiative; yet
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the parastatals tend to be corrupt
and end up being uneconomic;
Continuing to export unprocessed
raw-materials for which we get low
value (about ten times less), which
practice, moreover, makes us to lose
jobs to the outsiders e.g. spinning,weaving, printing and tailoring
jobs as far as the cotton industry
is concerned; the exporting of raw-
materials is because of lack of
industrialization;
The services sector that is
underdeveloped e.g. the under-
utilized tourism potential; and
The underdeveloped agriculture.
There are other bottlenecks such as the
ideological disorientation already alluded
Judiciary, etc) and lack of democracy. We
have, therefore, stated our strategic goals
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which are prosperity and security; we have
outlined above; what remains now is to
see how we have progressed on each.
Peace and Unity in 500 years:
1. By tackling the ideologicaldisorientation, we have exposed
the bankruptcy of sectarianism of
religion and tribe as well as gender
chauvinism. This has enabled the
people of Uganda to be united for the
bottleneck number one has been
dealt with. We only need to sustain
this and not tolerate those who wantto cause a regression on this gain.
2. The unity of the people of Uganda has,
especially the Army and increasingly
the Police. These institutions have
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President Museveni enjoying different culturalgroups’ performances, friendly atmosphere
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been imbued with the NRM ideology
of patriotism, pan-Africanism and
socio-economic transformation. The
civil service and the civilian political
class are still lagging behind in these
respects.
However, with a more capable NRM
can, then, have a more capable,
Nevertheless, even as we stand today,
combining a patriotic, Pan-Africanist
army and a supportive population,
the weaknesses of the civil service andthe political class notwithstanding,
the NRM has been able to pacify the
the last 500 years.
Why do we say this? This is because
before colonialism, the tribal kings
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were busy, myopically, promoting
wars among us (Bunyoro, Buganda,
Nkore, Rwanda, Buhaya, Lango-
Bukiri, Gani-Acholi, etc). During
colonialism, the British managed
to, eventually, after very costly wars
(e.g. with Bunyoro), to pacify much
of Uganda except for Karamoja which
remained disturbed for all that time.
After Independence, the situation
became worse. There was total
breakdown security-wise, peace-wiseand constitution-wise, until the NRM
came on the scene and, by 2003, had
managed to usher in peace, security
and constitutionalism in the whole of
Uganda.
President Museveni inspecting a guard of honour by
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Uganda is even able to contribute to
peace in the other fraternal African
etc.
23,972 bn:
3. On the issue of infrastructure, we,
initially, lost time because of having
a small budget of only Uganda
consequently, depend on the donors
for most of the infrastructure projects
water, etc. The donors contribution
tarmac road, in say, 15 years; one
electricity plant in 20 years etc.!!.
This was not serious. Fortunately, on
account of the correct policies of the
NRM, weaknesses of some elements
of the political class and the Civil
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of Uganda has now gone to Uganda
Prioritization:
With this more decent level of tax
collection, the NRM brought in the
correct principle of prioritizing among
priorities (kusosowaza, kukuratanisa,
okusimba omulaka, melakwong). On
my advice and strong insistence,
the NRM Parliamentary Caucus and
Cabinet, following the Conference of
(ii) Health, especially immunization;
(iii) Education, including the
– i.e. mass education as opposed
to elite education; (iv) the roads; (v)
electricity; and (vi) ICT. The concept
became: “spend something on each
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sector but spend decisively on the six
sectors”. In other words, we opposed
the wrong concept of “democratic
suffering” by all the sectors, of being
everywhere and ending up by being
nowhere. We opposed the concept
of “okumemeera” (okumansamansa,okumamirira, keto, scattering thinly)
resources everywhere equally.
Roads:
something everywhere but spend
decisively in some sectors”. As a
consequence of this, we boosted the
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the budget of Health from 510 billion
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The budget of Defence from 350 billion
shillings, etc., etc. Yet the budget
billion shillings
the Ministry of Gender, including
the money for the Elderly, the Youth
fund etc. is still 153 billion shillings;
the money for restocking and cattle
compensation is still 20 billion
we cannot do everything at a go.
Why did we start with the six sectors
was because the six impact everybody
and everything. Defence? Roads?
Health? Education? Electricity? ICT
backbone? Who is not affected by
these? The veteran is affected; the
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elderly is affected; the one who lost
cattle in the wars is affected; the
Youth; the Women; etc.; they are all
affected. Electricity, eventually, affects
everybody because it affects factories.
Factories mean jobs for the Youth,
which, then, can support the Elderly
and the Youth.
Wages:
The only item that could have waited
a little longer is the Wage Bill. Out
of the 12,000 billion shillings we are
collecting every year, the Wage Bill
an example, if the wage bill remained
we could have done more roads or
something else. The wages could goup later. Look at the wages in China
and India in the past years. Here
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CHINA
YEARWAGE
(CYN)
WAGE
(USD)
Wage %
IncreaseYEAR
WAGE
(CYN)
Wage
(USD)
Wage %
Increase
2015 9,014.24 127.68
2014 8,382.08 123.52 1.31
2013 7,614.88 12.11 121.92
2012 42452 6,792.32 106.88
2011 5,943.52 98.40
2010 5,237.76 12.00 92.16
2009 29229 4,676.64 92.00
24932 3,989.12 92.80
21001 3,360.16 93.44 -0.51
2,938.24 93.92
2005 2,564.00 14.14 94.08 5.00
2004 14040 2,246.40 13.03 89.60
2003 12422 1,987.52 89.76 -2.43
2002
1,739,20 0.00
92.00 -0.352001 1,739.20 92.32
2000 1,499.36 93.92
1999 1,335.36 11.59 93.28 -1.19
1,196.64 590 94.40
1,035.20 4.19 93.76
993.60 12.91 92.16 4.54
1995 5500 880.00 21.20 551 88.16
1994 726.08 510 81.60 -0.20
1993 539.36 24.35 511 81.76 -0.20
1992 433.76 1959 512 81.92
1991 2340 374.40 9.35 85.76 -14.10
1990 2140 342.40 10.59 99.84
1935 309.60 96.16 14.04
279.52 1955 84.32 1.93
1459 233.44 1954 82.72 4.44
1329 212.64 1953 495 79.20 11.24
183.68 1952 445 71.20
155.84
132.16 3.51
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MINIMUM WAGE PER MONTH 1991-
2015
Year Minimum Wage in USD per Month
1. 1991 24
2. 1992 21
3. 1993 19
4. 1994 19
5. 1995 17 30
27
28
9. 1999 28
10. 2000 29
11. 2001 28
12. 2002 31
13. 2003 33
14. 2004 45
15. 2005 43
45
54
4819. 2009 65
20. 2010 67
21. 2011 68
22. 2012 63
23. 2013 125
24. 2014 126
25. 2015 168
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“Garya embibo gashyekyera ekiteme” .
The teeth of the unwise eat the seeds
that had been planned for planting and,
later, helplessly smile at the garden, with
nothing to plant there. It is wrong to eat
the seeds. We should have the patience
and the forbearance to suffer hunger butsave the seeds for planting and only eat
the harvest (amagyesha , amakungula,
okugesa, Lugbara-okuzu, Luo-kac ). On
account of prioritization, we are delivering
on the infrastructure and, therefore,
removing that bottleneck. By building
Karuma, Isimba and a number of small
mini-hydros, our generation capacity
Ayago, our generation capacity will go to
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Hydro –electric dam construction underway.
Bujagali Power dam has boosted electricity production
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We are continuing to study as to how
we can generate more electricity than
that in the next 20 years. Even the
for a modern economy. You only need
to compare with other developed or
developing economies to gauge what level
of electricity generation is necessary for
Uganda. The UK currently generates
ago, were generating 44,000 mgws.
Yet they were having power shortages.Instructions have, therefore, already
been given to the Ministry of Energy to
develop all-round capacity that is able to
hydro, solar, geo-thermals and nuclear.We already have a Nuclear Energy unit
in the Ministry of Energy with scientists
researched statements while attending
African Conferences, talking about the
40,000 mgws potential of Ethiopia,
100,000 mgws potential of Congo, etc. All
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these are too small for modern economies.
people, generates 1,030,000 mgws.
Therefore, a potential of 300,000 mgws or
thereabout on all the African rivers is not
something to harp on. It is too little. We
must look at other sources.
As for the roads, by combining our own
funds and some limited funds from
outside, I am in a happy situation to
inform the Ugandans that all the major
years or less. These are:
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Kampala-Masaka; Tororo-Mbale-Soroti;
Jinja-Kamuli; Hoima-Kaisotonya; Ishaka-
Kagamba; Moroto-Nakapiripirit; Mpigi-
Kanoni; Kanoni-Sembabule-Villa-Maria;
Musita-Lumino-Busia; Olwiyo-Gulu; Gulu-
Acholibur; Acholibur-Musingo; Mukono-
Kayunga-Njeru; Mukono-Kyetume-Katosi;
Mubende-Kakumiro-Kagadi-Ndaiga;
Mbarara-Kikagate; Tirinyi-Pallisa-Kumi;
Hoima-Kigoroobya-Biiso-Wanseko; Masindi
Port-Apac-Lira-Kitgum; Kapchorwa-Bukwo-
Suam; Mbale-Maghale-Lwakhakha;Rukungiri-Kihihi-Ishasha; Atiak-Moyo;
Moroto-Kotido-Kaabong; etc., etc.
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already completed, some are on-going
and others will be commenced on later.
However, all these major roads are funded,
either by the Government of Uganda or
by outside sources. It is unprecedented
in the history of Uganda to have so many
roads being worked on at the same time
and most of them being funded by the
when roads like Masaka-Kabaale,
Laropi Ferry – Adjumani
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Mbarara-Fort Portal or Kampala-Gulu
were tarmacked, our Government then,
used loans from the World Bank. The
present capacity is unprecedented and a
happy development.
President Yoweri Museveni with regional headsof State launching the Standard Gauge Railway
Construction
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With the railway, we are going to build
soft loan from China or, later, using our
oil money. The modernised railway will
apart from traversing East to West and
backbone has been done with a loan from
China.
Health:
4. On the side of human resource
development, we have gone far.
The immunization has stopped our
children from dying young. The
infant mortality rate is now 54 per
That is why the population has gone
million people by 2015. Much better
health could have been achieved
if only the concerned authorities
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(Health, Local Government, etc.)
paid attention to hygiene, nutrition,
behaviour change, anti-malaria and
life-style.
The National Immunisation programme has stoppedour children from dying young.
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President wants health authorities to pay moreattention to hygiene, nutrition and lifestyle
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Education:
On the side of education, phenomenal
achievements have been realized.
About 11 million Ugandans are now
in schools – primary, secondary,
tertiary and university. The literacy
to have a Government secondary
school in all the 1,500 sub-counties
of Uganda.
Students under the USE programme
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President Museveni Commissions new building ofMasaka S.S
President Museveni Commissions new buildings atMary Hill High School, Mbarara
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However, literacy and numeracy
must be accompanied by technical
skills. We are, therefore, going
to build a technical school per
constituency in addition to some
professional colleges at national and
regional levels. The professionalcolleges are like the ones for Nursing
and Midwifery, for Petroleum and
Gas, etc. Otherwise, for technical
and ICT skills, we are going to have
one per constituency. We had
intended to build one of these per
sub-county.
However, it turned out to be veryexpensive; hence, the need to scale
down to the constituency level.
These technical and professional
skills of our youth will make them
either more employable or, even
better, turn them into job-creators
rather than job-seekers.
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5. Right from the resistance days,
th century
philosophy of the physiocrats in
France that all value came from
agriculture had long been disproved
by the classical economists, such
that without the industrialization of
our country, the future was bleak if
Uganda has been losing money and
jobs to the outside countries such as
UK in the past and to China today.
We have, in the past, explained to
the Ugandans that cotton has gotsix job levels: growing the cotton,
ginning the cotton (removing the
seeds), spinning the cotton, weaving
the yarn into fabric, printing the
colours into the fabric and tailoring
the fabric into garments.
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Fine Spinners workers in Bugolobi adding value toour cotton
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A kilogramme of ginned cotton sells
one kilo of lint cotton (when seeds
have been removed), would sell at
only lint cotton (i.e. after ginning),
we are losing the spinning jobs, the
weaving jobs, the printing jobs and
the tailoring jobs, apart from getting
Value addition on cotton creates jobs
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true of cotton is true of coffee, oil
seeds, copper, gold, etc. This is the
modern slavery that must be ended.
However, you could not do value
addition without solving the issue of
infrastructure. With no electricity or
very expensive electricity, how will
high transport costs, how will you be
competitive in both the internal and
export markets?
By, correctly, prioritisinginfrastructure, we are now able to
support our manufacturers – local or
foreign sourced. I am glad the power
the one from Bujagali has been
is because the developers used
expensive loans to build the dam. We
shall have to sort it out. Therefore,
by removing the bottleneck of under
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developed infrastructure, we are also
removing the bottleneck of lack of
industrialization.
Services:
infrastructure, we have also laid
the basis for the developing of our
huge services sector. Our huge
and incomparable tourism sector,
now attracts 1.4 million visitors per
annum. I am told that there has been
a slow-down of tourists because of the
where the Ebola outbreak in West
Africa scared tourists from coming to
Africa. Our tourist authorities should
inform all and sundry that Uganda
is a World Leader in combating
Ebola. We have promptly defeated
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Murchison Falls
Snow on the Rwenzori Mountains
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s
Bwindi
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Ebola on three occasions (in Gulu,
Bundibugyo and Kibaale) and have
also defeated the outbreaks of the
related Marburg on 3 occasions (in
Ibanda-Kampala, 2014 - Kampala).
We have a robust anti-terrorism
capacity. These factors should be
put out clearly by those concerned.
The other services such as Banking,
Insurance, the Professional services,
etc., are developing well. Indeed,the sector is growing at the rate of
5.3% per annum. The only weakness
we have there is advocacy. On the
side of tourism and conferences,
the only other bottleneck we had inthe past was the shortage of hotel
rooms (beds). With the support of
Government, the private sector, in
the Kampala-Entebbe sector alone,
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of market fragmentation caused
by colonialism, with the support of
our brothers and sisters in the EAC
a market of 150 millions in the EAC
producers of goods and services,
therefore, have no excuse of not
having a market.
The Diary Sector is growing rapidly
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Indeed, the surplus of our milk
production (2 billion litres while
the consumption in Uganda is
million tonnes while consumption
in Uganda is only 1 million tonnes),is being absorbed in the region. By
creating the regional market, we are
also making it easier to negotiate
for market access to the global
etc. Therefore, we can say that the
NRM goal of market integration for
Value addition on milk
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prosperity has been achieved. What
is not yet achieved is the political
in order to guard our sovereignty
against any and all imperialists.
Uganda, even when it becomes
a First World country, cannot
guarantee her sovereignty alone
for aggressors who will shoot at
their victims from space, completelyout of reach of the counter-blows
of the victims. The victims will be
exterminated as if they are mere
ants. It is unacceptable that the
African leaders of today should
allow this weakness to persist given
our sad experiences of the last 500
has been, working with our elders,sisters and brothers in East Africa,
for the Political Federation of East
Africa. We have been moving steadily
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on that crucial and decisive target
for the survival of our people as free
human beings over the ages.
Commercialization of Agriculture:
many of the families in agriculture
have been living in poverty,
just on account of ignorance,
mainly, complicated by problems
of poor leadership and someparasite arrangements in some
parts of the country. As I have
repeatedly told you, to get wealth
(obugagga, obugaiga, Teso-abar,
Lugbara-lonyi, Luo-lonyo ) through
agriculture, needs three steps:
move from subsistence agriculture
to commercial agriculture with
food security; carryout comparativeenterprises selection guided by the
return per acre per annum given
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the smallness of the family land
holdings i.e. going into commercial
agriculture with ekibaro, aimar,
;
and ending the wrong practice of
land fragmentation on inheritance
(obusika, oburagwa, Teso-imisiki,
Luo-lako, Lugbara-okusuza ). These
three (3) steps, where they have been
observed, have already caused good
results in the country. I have had
occasion to give detailed explanationof this strategy. Through the
Wealth Creation (OWC), many
families have responded very well.
The only problem now is inadequate
seedlings and breeding stock because
we are still devoting little money to
this effort on account of our strategy
of prioritization (Okusosowaza,Okukuratanisa, Lugbara-Otitakulu-
kulu) as already described. To
repeat for the NRM members, just for
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emphasis, we are spending Uganda
shillings 3,000 billions on the roads;
1,300 billions on health; 2,300
on energy and mineral development;
203 billion shillings. Now that we
have realized the magnitude of the
demand, we shall, in future, upscale
the expenditure on this item. We
could not do it this year because ofthe elections, the visit of His Holiness
we successfully hosted and other
temporary factors. However, in the
addressed. I am most excited that
the population has woken up to this
need of moving from subsistence to
commercial farming.
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On the issue of land fragmentation,I, again, advise Ugandans to stop
dividing the land and the wealth as a
consequence of inheritance and only
divide the net income from the land
and the wealth (after removing costs)
Abasika,
abahunguzi, okakare, olewange ). That
will preserve what the parents built up
and also give share to the inheritors,but in a healthy way. I only need to
of the swamps for agriculture needs
Land fragmentation
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to stop. The swamps are not only
necessary for the environment but
also for agriculture itself. As we wake
up to the importance of commercial
agriculture, we shall discover the need
for irrigation. Where will the water
for irrigation come from if we have
dried the swamps? This is what we
discovered in Kabale with the apple
grower in Rukiga County. There is
a very good swamp grass known as
ebigugu
other dialects of Uganda it is known
as ekisalu, gugu, Lusamya-ebidutu,
Lugbara-omii, Teso-asisinit, Luo-togo .
It used to be good for providing thatch(Okushakaara, okusereka , Lugbara-
jodritiza, Teso-aiswap, Luo-rumo-
ot) for the traditional houses and
mulching (Okwarira, Teso-aiswap-
alupok) in gardens and banana
plantations.
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When you dry the swamps, thebigugu disappear. Therefore, in the Ruharo
Model Parish, we were confronted
with the need to hire pick-ups so as
to import the bigugu from 30 miles
away (Kushaka, kusaka, yenyo)
because the local, free and ever
renewable ones had been destroyed.
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Fish farming is much, much more
agriculture and yet we can, then,
preserve the swamp, the water, the
bigugu , etc.
Wetlands:
The swamps can be used
economically by the people that are
near them but in an eco-friendly
can be done on the periphery of the
swamps (emyegyego, kungyegoyego ,Teso-eikor, Luo-idog-nota) and not in
the swamps themselves.
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Rain:
Drying swamps is more dangerous
in an even more fundamental way,
the reducing of our rain. Karamoja
while West Nile is also on latitude
Nile get 55.1 inches of rain a year
and Karamoja gets only 31.5 inches
of rain in a year? The answer is the
forests in Congo. Our scientists are
pointing out that as much as 40% of
our rain comes from the local swamps
through transpiration (those swamp
grasses sucking the water, throwingit in the atmosphere and the water,
then, comes back as rain). Then, the
almost commit suicide in this way
through the undermining of our
future by destroying these swamps.
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I always tend to concentrate on the
group of Ugandan farmers that are
still in subsistence farming because,as
Jesus said, the NRM came for the
“sick” (the ones in need). In the Book
of Mathew 9:12, it says: “When Jesus
heard this, he said “Healthy people
The healthy do not need a doctor. It is
came from the 2001 Census. The
recent census has not yet provided
the update. Nevertheless, we need
to give word about the commercial
farmers that are part of the 32% that
the 2001 census found in the money
economy.
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Irrigation:
Irrigation helps boost production
Drip irrigation can improve farm yields
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These, generally, know what to do. As
already pointed out, with time, they
will be assisted to shift to irrigation
agriculture rather than just being in
rain-fed agriculture.
We shall also introduce the more
use of factory-made fertilizers (NPK)
to replenish the soil. Value addition
is very crucial as already pointed out
under industrialization. Through
research, we have already developedimproved seeds and breeding stock.
Rolling our new vaccines for Poultry
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We have improved seeds for coffee,
maize, cotton, beans, millet, etc.
as well as dairy cattle, goats, pigs,
poultry, etc. Parliament should
expedite the legislation on bio-
technology so that we use that
potential to protect crops fromdrought, from diseases, etc, as well
as imparting certain qualities such
as quick-maturing, etc. etc.
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Corruption:
9. The strategic bottleneck of interfering
with the private sector was resolved
sector to operate, reinforced it by
privatizing Government companies
and liberalizing marketing, not to
forget the return of Asian properties.
The only impediment to the private
sector operations is corruption by
course, curable by getting the Musisis
and Kaginas who are increasingly
becoming available.
10. Lack of democracy used to be astrategic bottleneck before the NRM
time. However, this bottleneck was
resolved even when we were still in the
Luwero Triangle. The only distortion
now is the use of money. This is avalueless and cynical distortion.
What will a kilo of sugar, given once
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NRM programmes are correct and
good. The electorate needs to get
good, honest, corruption-free leadersthat bring these programmes nearer
to them rather than liars who give
We have, therefore, addressed the
three questions:
(a) What are the strategic goals
of Uganda as distilled by the
NRM?
(b) What are the strategic
obstacles?
(c) How far have we gone inremoving the obstacles and
achieving the goals?
Above, I have outlined what has
been done. What, then, remainsundone? The major things that
remain undone or not done enough
are: industrialization; job-creation
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for the youth; skilling the youth; safe
water for drinking and irrigation for
agriculture; total commercializationof agriculture and ending land
fragmentation; the use of fertilizers
in agriculture; institutional houses
for teachers, soldiers and health
workers; compensation for cattle
for veterans; good pay for scientists;
and good pay for other public
servants.
11. With increased supply of affordable
electricity, we are on the verge
of large-scale industrialization,
starting with value addition to all ouragricultural products and minerals.
Our people are now educated
and can run manufacturing
enterprises. They just lack capital
money. The loans of the Banks areexpensive. They cannot support
manufacturing. The bank loans are
only used by traders who continue
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to turn our country into a market
for imports from outside and drain
our foreign exchange. It is only theGovernment, directly or indirectly,
that can provide this capital. We
in the UDB for lending to processors
(involved in value addition) and 500
billion shillings in the budget of this
In our characteristic way, having,
in the past years, put emphasis on
the six sectors (road, electricity,
immunization, education, defence
and ICT backbone), in the coming
years, we shall add new sectors for
emphasis, including expanding theinnovation fund. With the expanded
Innovation Fund, we shall support
as many of our groups, mainly
youth or women, to process as much
of our agricultural products as isnecessary, basing themselves as
near the raw-materials sources as
possible.
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Uganda needs to add value to its maize production
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200,000 tonnes per annum. It is
now 4 million tonnes. Much of this
maize needs to be processed into
into animal feeds (for chicken, pigs,
was 200 million litres per annum.
It is now 2 billion litres per annum.
There is some processing capacity
but we need more processors. The
same is true of oil seeds (sim-sim,groundnuts, cotton-seeds, etc), beef,
leather, horns of cattle, bananas,
fruits, honey, etc. etc. These mini-
industries will be based at the sub-
counties if there is electricity nearby.We have already supported some of
the groups. It does not cost much.
processor. Meanwhile, we need to
continue attracting the big factories
for coffee, textiles, minerals, etc.
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Working with the private sector, we
are going to set-up an integrated
steel factory using the gas of Lake
Albert or gas imported from brother
Tanzania and the high quality iron-ore of Muko and Butogota, not to
forget the magnetite deposits at
started of developing the phosphates
and iron-ore of the latter in order to
produce fertilizers, steel, sulphuric-
acid and rare earth.
With Electricity production, industries will be
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Najeera Youth:
Industrialization will not only be based
on agricultural products or minerals. It
will also be based on human skills in the
form of light and heavy engineering (e.g.
manufacturing spare parts of automobiles
and, eventually, manufacturing heavy
duty equipment). Our scientists have
already started with Kiira electric car
as well as pick-ups and other vehicles.
They are just awaiting funding from the
Innovation Fund. At the small artisanalscale, I used the Najeera youth group to
show what can be done in the cities for
the youth. Those youths were fabricating
metallic doors. They only needed a metal
cutting machine and a metal bendingmachine.
One group had 30 youths in it and there are
common user facilities can be shared by
machines, lower their costs of production
(initial cost of production was:
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Shs. 30,000/- for machine cutting in Katwe,
transport Shs. 30,000/-, waiting time Shs.
10,000/- totalling Shs. 70,000/-). The cost
told the Hon. Caroline Okao to map out all
such groups in the Kampala area so as to
roll out support for them in time, starting
with some and adding others as time goes
on. The NRM leaders should be active on
this issue. The youth in the towns should
not be frustrated unnecessarily. The same
can be done for carpenters, motor vehiclemechanics, brick-layers, hair dressers,
tailors, etc.
Najeera Youth at their Metal Fabrication workshop
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Lutuungu Technical School:
started. We are intensifying the
effort by the plan to build a technical
school in each constituency. We
and 42 vocational schools. Here,I would like to use my example of
the vocational school I built for the
youth at Lutuungu (Lutunku as
some people call it) near my village,
graduated from there in the last 12
years. They have graduated with
skills of: carpentry and joinery,
electrical installation, motor vehiclemechanic, tailoring and cutting
garments, home economics and
catering, brick laying and concrete
practice, hair dressing and dairy
production. Recently, I gave each
graduate free tools as start-up
capital as follows:
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Skills Tools provided
Carpentry and Joinery Tool box andaccessories
Electrical Installation Tool box andaccessories
Motor vehiclemechanic
Tool box andaccessories
Tailoring and CuttingGarments
Home Economics andCatering
Gas cooker, cylinderand accessories
Block-laying and
Concrete Practice
Tool box and
accessories
Hair dressingDrier, barbingmachine andgenerator
Diary production Cow
1 million to buy consumables. I
directed them to add the skills of
ceramics, weaving, knitting and
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per person. This can be done all
over. These are the lower end
worked out for the more advanced
skills such as petroleum and gas or
marine courses (boat drivers, ferrytechnicians, water navigators, etc).
13. As far as safe-water for drinking and
as far as irrigation is concerned, the
present situation is as here below:
to cover the other 23% for the urbanand 35% for the rural population. I
have directed the Ministry of Water
to simplify the formula for providing
the drinking water to the people.
Initially, it should be one borehole
including the town ones. We already
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have 105,000 boreholes. This means
that we already have more boreholes
than the villages but the bore-holes
are not fairly distributed. Otherwise,
with this number of boreholes, all
villages should be covered by now.
After ensuring one borehole pervillage, we should, then, aim at two
boreholes per village and, then, three.
This will not include the small towns
and trading centres that have got
piped water. The towns and trading
centres with piped water are 1,100
million people. By this systematic
method, we are going to covereverybody in Uganda by supplying
them with safe-water in the next 10
years.
Uganda, however, must also
move from rain-fed agriculture to
irrigation agriculture. We already
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have irrigated schemes such as
Mobuku, Doho, Olweny and Agoro.
We shall, in future, develop more of
such schemes at the same time as
we develop and encourage micro-
irrigation on each farm using solar
energy-water pumps. Makerere isalready instructed to develop such
a pump; we are also working with
other external groups to solve that
problem. Meanwhile, communal
and personal water dams are being
developed. These will be important
when it comes to micro-irrigation.
Fertilizers:14. The use of fertilizers in Uganda is
very low. The use of fertilizers in the
EU, it is 150 kgs per ha; in India it
kgs per ha; in Latin America (Brazil),
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Uganda, it is 2.5 kgs per ha. Yet, we
have these huge production levels.
10 million tonnes of bananas, 4
million bags of coffee and going up,
4 million tonnes of maize, 2 billion
litres of milk even when we do not
use fertilizers for pasture, etc. etc.
How much more shall we achieve
if fertilizers, NPK, are used? The
sugarcane growers use fertilizers.
We shall help the tea growers to use
years. Fortunately, we are building
our own fertilizer industry for
Our oil and gas in Mwitanzigye
will give us the Nitrogen. We only
need to get the potassium from
somewhere to complete the circle
of NPK (Nitrogen, phosphorous
and potassium). Where fertilizers
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and water (irrigation) are used,
production goes up dramatically.
At the Presidential Initiative farm at
Nyaruzinga, banana production has
jumped from 5 tonnes per hectare to
53 tonnes per hectare.
The Presidential Initiative has boosted the banana production
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15. As I have been saying repeatedly, the
continued existence of subsistence
farming in Uganda is the source of
poverty in the rural areas. Between
the areas in North Ankole as far
as commercialization of milk wasconcerned, building on the earlier
work we had done as students in
our peasantry could be prosperous
through commercializing small scale
agriculture. Hence, the need for the
three steps already referred to: go
A boost from the Presidential Initiative on BananaProduction
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from subsistence to food security and
commercialization of agriculture; do
so with ekibaro, cura, otita, aimar,
land fragmentation on inheritance.
opposed to elite education, we have
increased classrooms in permanent
brand new secondary schools; we
have expanded University Education
(Makerere) to 32, both governmentand private universities today; and
we are expanding technical and
vocational training. However, we
have a huge backlog of institutional
policy of selling institutional houses
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and giving public servants what
adopted by us some years ago. That
may be suitable for the main-stream
public service. However, for the
teaching service, the health workers,
the army, the police and the prisons,it is clear that institutional housing
is very crucial. The workers stay
near their work places and there is,
therefore, no time lost in commuting
from residence to work. This is
something that is still pending and
will be tackled in our usual Kiyekera
(Kihekyera , guerrilla) way of handling
problems in phases.
of salaries for public servants,
advocated for “democratic suffering”
should be low for everybody. I have
never agreed with this view because
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it undermines performance. Take
for example, the army. As the
UPDF has matured, we have trained
pilots for air lines where a pilot is
per month, I hear. It is, therefore,
not reasonable to insist that, in the
spirit of “democratic suffering”, the
pilots of the air-force must be paid
the same as all the other soldiers.
Yet these pilots are not that many.
Paying them something comparable
to what they would get in civilian life(adjusted to the work environment
in the army) would not impose a
heavy burden on the country. Other
than envy (nyeko) and ego, there
is no rational reason to force these
specialists to be remunerated below
the market price of their labour in
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the wider society. What is true of the
doctors, engineers, science teachers,
etc.
all the Ugandan armies: KAR, UA,UNLA and NRA/UPDF. Originally,
reduced to 540 billion shillings.
paying the money for the veterans?
It is because we do not have onlythe issue of veterans to deal with. As
already pointed out, for the reasons
mentioned above, we started with
the roads, immunization, defence,
education, electricity and ICT. We
put, for each of these sectors, money
in excess of 2,000 billion shillings
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per year. This is much more than
what the veterans need. However,
by handling these sectors, you are
creating a higher base for everybody
could not handle, at the same level,
all the sectors at one go, we had tostart with some and the others will
follow later.
Security and Restocking:
19. Compensation follows the same
have provided for 9.5 billion
shillings. Yet the total requirement
compensation may not be accurate
because it is not the Government
that ate these cattle. It was mainly
the rebels and the cattle rustlers.
The words used, however, are not
crucial. What is crucial is that these
areas are restocked with cattle. It
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will, indeed, be done in the same
systematic manner as we have done
with the roads, electricity, defence,
etc. Can anybody dispute the fact
we have dealt with restocking Teso,
Karamoja? What would have been
the point of restocking these areas
only for the re-introduced cattle to
be raided the following week? The
prioritization we did assures that
whatever cow that is re-introduced,
will not be lost again. That is the
correct way of handling that issue.
The same logic is applicable in thematter of the akasiimo for the Luwero
civilian veterans. Whoever has not
yet received his kasiimo, will receive
it in time because the foundation
economy, the latter propelled by
more electricity and better roads.
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20. While we are struggling with the
problem of land fragmentation by
the peasants in much of Uganda,
in Buganda, starting with 1920,
the progressive forces have been
struggling against the wicked mailo-
land system that the British hadused to transform our people in
Buganda as well as a few portions
of Ankole, Kibaale and Tooro into
serfs who had to pay rent in kind
protect the bibanja (tenants) owners.
The NRM has strengthened this
legislation. However, the landlords,taking advantage of the ignorance
of the tenants and, sometimes,
colluding with the elements in the
judiciary, still evict our people.
idea of suspending land sales in
Buganda for a period of time to
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study the situation better. When
we are not pre-occupied with the
present election activities, we shall
study this idea better. What is clear,
however, is that when we budget
in the manner described above, in
the coming years, we can buy outthe landlords and give land to the
people. I have already experimented
this with the Royal families of Ankole
and Tooro in the areas of Ishaka,
Kakigane and Isingiro. In Buganda,
households have been settled on the
land liberated from a landlord bypaying him off.
21. Finally, there will be the question
of the better pay for the rest of the
public service, starting with the
soldiers and the teachers. Actually,
that time is at hand. Why? This is
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because when we start earning from
our oil and gas, that money will be
used for the infrastructure needs that
will still be unmet by that time. The
huge amount we are now deploying
on infrastructure as shown above,
will be used for these other sectors,wages included, for which we are
currently under-budgeting.
Summary:
Therefore, in conclusion, let us go back to
our original questions: “What are the strategic goals of
Uganda and Africa as seen by theNRM over the years?”
What are the strategic obstaclesthat impeded the realization of thosegoals?
Which obstacles have we removedand which of them remain un- tackled at all?
To recapitulate, we should repeat that
our strategic goals are: prosperity and
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security for the Ugandan people and
their African brothers and sisters. We
have seen and we have often pointed out
what the strategic obstacles (bottlenecks)
have been. Rather than enumerating the
obstacles again, let us point out those
that have been addressed and those thathave not been addressed or not addressed
have addressed decisively the following
bottlenecks or sectors:
(i) Defence and ensuring peace.
(ii) Immunization; the heath of the
population would be much better
if hygiene, nutrition, behaviour
change and anti-malaria measures
were seriously taken.
(iii) General education to raise the level
of literacy and numeracy.
will be tarmacked, either using
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Government money or money from
partners abroad. The last road that
lacked funding was Rwenkunyu-Masindi Port-Apac-Lira-Puranga-
Acholibar. It will be funded by the
Islamic Development Bank loan.
(v) Electricity generation has grown
4,300 megawatts by the time the
dams of Karuma, Isimba, Ayago and
the small mini-hydros are ready;
some of the work is on-going while
the other one is planned for.
(vi) Using the Chinese loan, we have
built the ICT backbone and, thereby,
liberated the Ugandans from the
need to depend on the satellites for
telephoning and data transmissionwhich was very expensive.
(vii) The telecommunications has
undergone a fundamental revolution
being awed by an Iraqi Minister
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sounded so huge compared to what
we had. We now have much more
(viii) The service sector has been growing
at the rate of 5.3% per annum.
billion. Everything to encourage
Tourism is in place: security,infrastructure (roads) and the hotel
40,000 beds, today, in the whole of
Uganda. The only lacking element
is promotion. Everything else is inplace. The other services are also
our children if it is emphasized.
This is BPO (Business Processes
Outsourcing). The ICT backboneis in place and the undersea cable
is in place. The cost has come
per megabit per second per month.
It can, however, go lower below
month, if we cut out middlemen and
activate the alternative route to the
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undersea cables through Mutukula
via Tanzania to the Port of Dar-es-
(ix) The railway is going to be
reconstructed and up-graded to
Chinese loan. If the Chinese loan
does not materialize, we shall useour oil money to build it.
(x) The issue of ending the fragmentation
of the African market so as to absorb
what our wealth creators (farmers,manufacturers, service providers,
etc) produce, has moved very well.
Working with our partners in East,
had two conferences in Uganda, in June 2004 and November 2012.
This is a market of 400 million
people. Working with Mzee Moi
and Mzee Mwinyi in November
1999, we revived the market of
East African Community (the EAC),
with a population of 150 million
people. The difference of EAC with
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Political Federation of East Africa,
which we are ever working on. Both
the economic integration and thepolitical integration are moving well.
(xi) With the industrialization, we are
set for takeoff now that we have
electricity and the roads. The railway
will further boost industrialization.Nevertheless, we have already covered
processing, steel bars, cement, sugar
processing, some maize milling, some
leather tanning, new textile factories,battery manufacture, plastics,
some medicine manufacture, etc.
We are about to add the processing
of coffee (from the garden to the
sulphuric acid. We are remainingto deal with the vertical integration
of steel for Muko and Butogota, beef
processing (already started), more
cement (Karamoja), fruit processing,
copper processing to 99% at Kilembe,
more milling of maize and livestock
feeds, more textiles, assembling and
manufacture of automobiles, etc. etc.
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MM steel factory in Jinja
Steel Rolling Mills
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Value addition – wine made out of fruits
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(xii) On the commercialization of
agriculture, the movement is on.
The Ugandans have been awakened. This is great.
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I know that the Ugandans are awake
because of the demand for the
planting and breeding materials. seedlings of tea, 2.5 million of orange
the demand is growing. This is very
good. In our usual prioritization
we are going to spend more on theseedlings and the breeding stock.
The movement on this front is on.
of the people in the urban areas
access to safe water. We are, this
shillings on water alone. To cover
for irrigation we need to budget for
the mega irrigation projects around
the low lands of the Elgon and the
Rwenzori mountains, multiplying
the Mobukus and the Dohos, as well
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as planning for micro-irrigation on
each farm using solar-powered water
pumps that are being developed. Thediesel water pumps are 50% more
expensive than the solar energy
ones. It is in the area of irrigation
that we have not yet done much
beyond repairing Mobuku and Doho
and developing Olweny and Agoro.
started. As already pointed out, there
vocational schools. We are aiming ata technical school per constituency.
(xv) It is in the area of using fertilizers for
the general public that little has been
done. It needs a plan and budget
as well as sensitization because itis a new culture for Uganda. We
have been depending on the natural
fertility of the land and the use of
livestock manure (cow-dung, etc).
The latter solves the problem of the
structure of the soil but may not
replenish the nutrients (nitrogen,
phosphorus and potassium).
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(xvi) The increase of the pay for the
scientists has been started but more
must be done. The whole of the NRMleadership needs to be convinced
about this so that we wholeheartedly,
all of us, work for this.
(xvii) All the efforts I have enumerated: better
infrastructure, industrialization,commercialization of agriculture, the
development of ICT, modernization
of the services’ sector, skilling of the
youth, will result in many, many jobs
the issue of job-creation.
(xviii) That leaves on our list of tasks
the issues of: institutional houses
for the soldiers, the police, the
health workers and the teachers;the remaining cattle compensation;
pensions for the veterans; and
akasiimo for the civilian veterans;
improved pay for the other public
servants starting with the soldiers
and the teachers; and the issue of
bibanja owners in Buganda. All
these will be addressed as pointed
out above.
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Above, I have talked about ideology,
strategy, politics (applied ideology) plans
and programmes. As I conclude, let me issues. I have already lambasted the use
of money to kuhuzya (deceptively and
without any value diverting their attention)
our citizens in order to get their votes but
without solving their soluble problems(kubakyenuura ).
In the Book of Mathew Chap: 23:23; it
says: “They left undone what they ought
to have done and did that they ought
not to have done and there is no truth
in them” (Baleka bye basanidde okukola,
nebakola byebatasanidde kukola,
namazima tegali mubo). We should
not kuhuzya (kugumaaza ) people, we
should kubakyenuura (solve their soluble
problems or show the plan to solve them
in future) These problems have been
should explain all this to the people
(okunyonyora
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at rallies will not help people understand
the ideology, the strategy, the policies
or the plans. Explaining, sensitization
(okushobororera, okunyonyola
what is needed. It should not be long
explanations. The okunyonyola should be
short and simple. We should use rallies,
radios, seminars, etc., to do this. Where
should, the explaining be done? It should
be on the radios, the televisions, in the
villages, in the homes, in the schools, and
in the work places. The internet, the short
should also be used.
President Museveni launching the BPOCommunication Centre
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Apart from explaining, the leaders
should monitor, inspect and ensure the
implementation of the programmes for
kukyenuura (solving people’s problems).
The leaders could also lead by example.
If it is, for instance, farming, the leaders
themselves should be the lead farmers. If
the example.
Finally, we need to also address the
supported this mighty organisation that
has brought peace to your country. The
I have been fundraising for the Party.
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fundraising for the Party. The Ugandan
society has now so developed that the
middle class can now, very easily and
without any pain, support this Party, only
to be joined by the peasants, later when,through wealth creation, they all start
were about 150 Bank account holders.
Assuming 5 million were NRM supporters
or sympathizers and each made a onetime
thousand shillings), the Party would raise
the NRM House and execute the present
electoral exercise from beginning to end.
Let us, therefore, send this little money to
the NRM account number 1100039293
(Shs Account) and 1100069362 (Dollar
Account) in the Housing Finance Bank.
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Long Live the NRM
Long Live Uganda
Long Live the East African Federation
Long Live the Common Market of Africa