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Speech to Parliament
By
H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
President of the Republic of Uganda
Parliamentary uildings ! "#th
$ecember% &'"&
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Rt. Hon. Speaker,
I have decided to use the rights of the President, under
Article 101 (2 of the 1!!" #onstitution of the Repu$lic of
%ganda, to address Parlia&ent. I a& e'ercising this right
in order to counter the nefarious and &endacious
ca&paign of the foreign interests, using )*s and so&e
+e&$ers of Parlia&ent, to tr and cripple or disorient the
develop&ent of the *il sector.
If the %gandans &a re&e&$er, this is not the first ti&e
these interests tr to distort the develop&ent of our
histor.
-hen e ere fighting the Sudanese/sponsored terroris&
of on or hen e ere fighting the ar&ed cattle/
rustlers in ara&oa, ou re&e&$er, there ere groups,
including so&e religious leaders, *pposition +e&$ers of
Parlia&ent as ell as )*s, hich ould spend all the
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ti&e denouncing us, the reedo& ighters. 3he ere
denouncing those ho ere fighting to defend the lives
and properties of the people, rather than denouncing the
terrorists, the cattle/rustlers and their e'ternal/$ackers
(in the case of on as ell as their internal
colla$orators.
It ould appear as if the rong/doer as the
)overn&ent, the R+, rather than the cri&inals. -e,
patientl, put up ith that &align&ent at the sa&e ti&e
as e fought, got inured or killed, against the ene&
until e achieved victor. 4ventuall, e on, supported
$ the ordinar people and the different people5s &ilitias.
3here is total peace in the hole countr and et the
&isleaders of those ears have not apologi6ed to the
%gandans for their &endacit. Instead, either the sa&e
groups or ne allied groups have e&erged to vilif the
R+ )overn&ent and to spread o$scurantis& as ell as
lies on our *il and )as this ti&e or on corruption.
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3his ti&e, these people are spreading lies acting on
$ehalf of e'ternal interests. I ill, later on, sho ou h
I think the are acting on $ehalf of foreign interests.
Hoever, $efore I do that, let &e take %gandans through
the 8$attle9 I have $een fighting to defend the future of
%ganda and its interests in the &atter of Petroleu& and
)as.
I have told ou &an ti&es of that first night in the earl
1!:;, hen a tea& of Shell
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8e'pert9 in *il and Petroleu&. I directed +rs. *pio, the
Per&anent Secretar in the +inistr of +inerals then, to
send our oung graduates ith
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countries that have $een producing *il and )as. I ill
enu&erate so&e of the &istakes e have avoided.
1. +istake nu&$er one to $e avoided as the lo share
of oil for the State of %ganda. 3he Production
Sharing Agree&ents (PSA that e signed, even
$efore e had confir&ed that e had the oil in
co&&ercial uantities, gives us a share of @0B of
the oil produced if ou count the profit oil, the
roalties and the ta'es. If ou co&pare ith other
countries, the situation is that %ganda5s ter&s
co&pare ver ell ith other oil producing countries
like Angola, Indonesia, %S/Alaska, 3hailand, )a$on
and Cietna&, hich are in the range of @0/:0B total
govern&ent take, considering that there are those
countries in the loer range of less than >"B like
+auritius, +adagascar, 3ogo and +orocco. =ater
PSAs, no that e are sure e have the oil, ill $e
even &ore favoura$le.
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2. %gandans are the ones ho pioneered the discover
of the oil in the African Rift Calle D fro& 4thiopia,
through ena, 3an6ania, +alai, =ake 3anganika,
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first placeE9 3he could not anser. olloing our
success, *il #o&panies are scra&$ling over one
another in the hole length of the Rift Calle D in
4thiopia, ena, 3an6ania, +alai,
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&ake steel or to &ake fertili6ers apart fro& using it
for cooking. It can also $e used in transportation (as
liuified gas, in industries to &anufacture plastics
and che&icals, etc. 3his is the resource that as
$eing flared in so&e of the African countries. Fet, in
so&e of those countries, there has $een shortage of
electricit. In %ganda, those &istakes ill never
occur. If ou look at #lause !@, of the Petroleu&
(4'ploration, ?evelop&ent and Production
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countrys electricity needs. This is captured in
Objective 3 of the ational Oil and !as "olicy #$$%.
>. 3he other &istake that occurs in &an African *il/
producing countries is the failure to $uild Refineries.Fou find a countr that has $een producing
petroleu& for &an ears, suffering fro& petroleu&
shortages $ecause the e'port crude and i&port
refined products (petroleu&, diesel, aviation fuel,
Heav uel *il (H*, etc. All the associated o$s
are e'ported to foreign countries D the refining o$s.
Fou also lose the $/products. 3hat $arrel of crude
ou carelessl e'port contains petroleu&, diesel,
aviation fuel, paraffin, H* (for electricit generation,
furnace oil, PC# for plastics, $itu&en for tar&acking
our roads, etc. 3his is apart fro& the constituentparts of the associated gas alread &entioned
a$ove.
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". 3he a$ove, are &istakes and disadvantages an *il
producing countr, ith an ocean coast/line, ill
suffer if the ust e'port crude. -hen it co&es to a
land/locked countr like %ganda, there are additional
losses e shall suffer if e ust e'port crude. -hen
crude is pu&ped through neigh$ouring countries to
the coast, ou pa hat e call 8transit charges9.
=et us assu&e such a charge of %SG 20 per $arrel for
the out/going crude and another %SG 20 per $arrel
euivalent of the inco&ing finished products, %ganda
ill lose %SG >0 per $arrel. If the price is %SG 100, as
it is toda, e shall get onl %SG ;0 per $arrel for
%ganda. Hoever, since our oil is also a' (ith a
high a' content, the cost of transporting it is ver
high due to the need of continuousl heating the
pipeline. *therise, the petroleu& ill solidif and
stop $eing liuid. 3he cost of heating a $arrel of oil
all the a to the coast is esti&ated at a$out %SG
2.>. 3hat &eans that %ganda5s crude oil ill achieve
a loer price than it should have $ this heating cost.
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3herefore, in realit %ganda ill get %SG "@.; per
$arrel even if the orld price is %SG 100.
;. 3here as the issue of the Sta$ili6ation #lause. 3his
atte&pted to sa that %ganda should renounce its
right of pushing up ta'es over *il #o&panies on
account of a false argu&ent that, that ould affect
the level of profita$ilit of the #o&panies since the
ould have included the level of ta'ation in their
profit proections. -e said that is alright. Indeed, a
gentle&an or a lad never changes his or her ord5.
-e did not ant the level of profita$ilit of
#o&panies to go don on account of raised
)overn&ent ta'es. -hat ould, hoever, $e the
situation if the #o&panies ere &aking super/profits
D &uch &ore than the and e had anticipatedE
Should the )overn&ent renounce its right to ta'
such super/profits that could $e done ithout
loering the anticipated profita$ilit levels of these
#o&paniesE *ur anser as o. If there ere
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super/profits, the had to $e ta'ed D ithout loering
the profita$ilit levels of #o&panies. In an case,
ho do ou calculate the profita$ilit levelE -e have
to have a scientific for&ula. So&e of the *il
#o&panies did not ant this. 3he si&pl anted to
use the ords 8The "arties shall negotiate in good
faith, &. to restore the 'icensee to the same overall
economic position as e(isted as at the )ffective *ate
of the +greement. -e reected this and de&anded
that the concept of the et Present Calue (PC $e
used to deter&ine the planned level of profita$ilit
and ho that ould $e affected $ an ne ta'
&easures. 3his, apparentl, as a ground/$reaker in
*il issues in Africa.
@. 3he other frontline ill $e the 4nviron&ent. *il is afinite resource. It ill $e e'hausted and finished
after so&e decades. Hoever, our isheries, our
3ouris&, our Agriculture, our Hu&an Resource
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(educated and health, our +anufacturing sector ill
go on for ever if e do not &is&anage the&.
3herefore, protecting our 4nviron&ent, not onl
against oil pollution, $ut against all for&s of pollution
(silting of lakes and rivers and environ&ental
degradation (cutting of forests, destroing the
etlands, creating $are/hills, soil erosion,
overgra6ing, etc, is a &ust. 3he las e are
proposing or that have $een passed include the
folloing the 1!!" #onstitutionJ the ational
4nviron&ent Act, #ap 1"7J the ational orestr and
3ree Planting ActJ the -ater Act, #ap 1"2J a&ong
others.
:. 3here is also the uestion of Au'iliar Services D
#atering, #ivil -orks, #learing and orarding,
+edical Services, Air #harters, Securit Services,
-aste +anage&ent and 4nviron&ental
#onsultancies, etc. ?uring the 4'ploration Phase, e
had not, certainl, concentrated on these. Hoever,
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there is no reason h outsiders should take that
&one for those Au'iliar Services aa. As far as
the Au'iliar Services are concerned, #lause 122 of
the Petroleu& (4'ploration, ?evelop&ent and
Production
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it is e'hausti$le, ust as is the case ith all e'tractive
industries. 3herefore, the &one fro& *il should
onl $e used for creating a dura$le capacit for the
countr so that future generations ould also $enefit
fro& this resource. -hat are the ele&ents of this
dura$le capacitE 3hese ele&ents are
i 4lectrifing the hole countr (e need, at least,
>0,000 +-. *ur present level of electricit
generation is :12 +-. In 1!:;, the electricit
generation as onl ;0 +-. 3hat level of
electrification ill ena$le us to run a &odern
econo& ith or ithout oil of our on. Mapan is a
ver prosperous countr ithout oil, ithout &inerals
and ithout adeuate agriculture. It has got a highl
educated and skilled hu&an resource (population.
ii -e shall reva&p the raila sste& and up/grade it
to the standard gauge so that e are linked ith
South Sudan, #ongo and Randa. It costs %SG >,"00
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to transport a >0/ft container fro& +o&$asa to
a&pala $ road, hile the sa&e container costs
%SG 7,100 $ rail fro& +o&$asa to a&pala.
3herefore, road transport is a$out 70B &ore
e'pensive than rail transport. It is unise to $ase
our transport sste& on this e'pensive &ode.
iii -e need to support Scientific 4ducation and
Innovation so that the $rain/poer of the %gandan
hu&an resource $eco&es the ne per&anent $ase
of the future &odern econo& of %ganda. Reling
on, &ainl, hu&an &uscle, the traditional %gandan
societ as $ased on the indigenous econo& of
Agriculture and Artisanship. 3he colonial and the
neo/colonial econo& of %ganda, until the R+ ti&e,
used onl a portion of Agriculture (coffee, cotton, tea,
sugarcane and to$acco. 3he rest as neglected D
&ilk, $eef, $ananas, &ai6e, &illet, potatoes, fruits,
etc. 3hat is h, until the R+ ti&e, e ere in the
ridiculous position of i&porting &ilk fro& ena,
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Sit6erland, ?en&ark, etc. 4ven toda, e are still
i&porting so&e of the fruit uices fro& ena, South
Africa, etc. *ne of the R+5s strategic goals has
alas $een to diversif the econo& of %ganda
aa fro& ust depending on Agriculture and
+inerals (all undersold as ra/&aterials to a &odern
econo& poered $ the scientificall e&poered
hu&an $rain of the %gandans.
+ali&u erere, hen Idi A&in attacked 3an6ania
on the 70th of *cto$er 1!@:, said that 83an6ania
alas had the intention and also the capacit to
fight Idi A&in9.
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had the cause (sabaabu. -hat e alas lacked
as the 8uwezo9 (capacit. %ganda5s *il and )as
has given us that capacit (uwezo. 4ven $efore e
had the *il and )as, e had used our scarce
resources to start %P4, %S4 and
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take the 1! roads hich ere read in the 2012L17
national $udget speech hich ere also advertised
recentl $ %RA. So&e Private #o&panies ill use
their on &one to ork on these roads. 3he
)overn&ent ill pa the& slol using our e'isting
resources. *il &one ill save us fro& those
headaches.
v 3he other use is to utili6e the *il &one to sta$ili6e
our Agriculture $ providing irrigation D so that our
Agriculture, one ele&ent of our dura$le ealth, is
i&&uni6ed for ever against the erraticness of the
eather. -ith additional use of fertili6ers, the
production of, for instance, $ananas ill go up $ 10
ti&es as the e'peri&ents at aru6inga in
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%SG 1,>"2,:@! per annu&. -hat if e had other
properties in the groing &arkets of
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sponge iron (directl reduced iron to $e used for our
steel industr. 3he reccled steel that is $eing produced
$ #ase&ents, Roofings, 3e&$o Steel,
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=et us take the other e'a&ple of uraniu&. -e have
uraniu& deposits in the folloing areas 3ororo D in
Sukulu hillsJ Arua D in ei and +idigo areasJ Pakach D in
Acha/Alo areaJ Adu&ani D in Naipi,
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alread sent out for training in nuclear science a total of :
students. -e shall continue to $uild our hu&an capacit
in nuclear phsics.
-h did I give this guidance, indeed, directiveE 4ven if
e develop all the hdro/poer sites on the ile such as
Isi&$a, alagala, aru&a, Aago orth, Aago South,
+urchison alls, as ell as all the &ini/hdro stations on
all the s&aller rivers (the agera, +u6ii6i, Sipi, Sua&,
etc and all the geo/ther&al sources, e shall end up ith
a total of a$out ",!00 +-. 4ven if e add the s&all
a&ount e shall get fro& *il and )as of, sa 7,000 +-,
e shall end up ith a total of a$out :,!00 +-. Fet, the
developed econo& of %ganda, ith a population of 100
&illion people $ 20"0, ill need, at least, >0,000 +-.
-here ill this electricit co&e fro&E -hen the cost of a
unit of solar energ co&es don to levels co¶$le to
those of hdro/poer, that ould $e a good source of
electricit. In the &eanti&e, the onl relia$le source of
large/scale poer is nuclear using our uraniu&. 3hat is
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h I stopped an$od &ining or e'porting uraniu&. -e
cannot poer the econo&ies of other countries and
forget a$out our on. 3he present cost of a unit of
electricit fro& hdro/poer is 7 A&erican cents if ou do
not use $orroed &one ith interest, using gas, it costs
! A&erican cents, using H*, it costs 2@ A&erican cents,
using diesel, it costs 2: A&erican cents, using solar, it
costs 7; A&erican cents and using nuclear, it costs 12
A&erican cents.
10. 3he putting in place of a co&prehensive *il and )as
Polic for %ganda, &ade it possi$le for us to avoid
an future &istakes. -e &ade our first confir&ed
discoveries in Manuar, 200;.
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(ii 3o carr out petroleu& e'ploration and pro&otion $
acuiring technical infor&ation and data and use it
to attract oil co&paniesJ and
(iii 3o &onitor e'ploration ork undertaken $ oil
co&panies.
Hoever, ith the discover of oil, the R+ )overn&ent
e&$arked on a ne task of for&ulating a co&prehensive
polic to guide the develop&ent of the sector. 3he
ational *il and )as Polic for %ganda as, therefore, put
in place in 200:. 3he Polic gives a clear road &ap on
ho oil in %ganda ill $e produced, ho value ill $e
added to it and ho petroleu& revenues ill $e used to
create lasting value to our societ. It is i&portant to note
that there are a nu&$er of countries in Africa hich have
produced oil for a long ti&e and do not have
co&prehensive oil and gas policies up to no, hich is a
recipe of resource curse.
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3his stand of defending %ganda5s interests is not popular
ith the usual parasitic interests outside Africa. Hence,
the pressure ou have seen recentl in respect of *il.
3here is no a &ultiplicit of )*s on *il such as
Advocates #oalition for ?evelop&ent and 4nviron&ent
(A#*?4, AP4, )lo$al Rights Alert, #entre for
#onstitutional )overnance, Athiego, the *il oru& $ the
Hons. Sekiku$o, iaga$a and others, the so/called
Parlia&entar oru& on *il and )as (P*). All these
are funded $ e'ternal interests. Se&inars are held for
our +Ps, especiall. 3he recent circus and desperate
actions in Parlia&ent, the insults $ Hon. Sekiku$o and
his group against the )overn&ent, are designs to
under&ine the fir& stand of the R+ in defence of the
e'hausti$le resources of %ganda, especiall *il and )as.
3he circus on clause !, for instance, of the Petroleu& Act,
a$out hether the +inister or the Authorit should have
the poer to license and revoke licenses, is actuall not
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a$out the +inister. It is a$out the strong group of
Scientists that e have created in the +inistr of 4nerg.
3hose ho ere illogicall and desperatel opposing this
are $eing financed $ foreign interests through A#*?4.
3heir &ain reason is that the are tring to avoid our
Scientists ho have $locked &an cri&inal sche&es.
*ne of the latest is hat the call recovera$le oil. 3his
&eans the oil ou ill pu&p out of the ground co&pared
to the total oil in the ground. In their first ield
?evelop&ent Plan, one of the *il #o&panies proposed
that the recover onl @B of the oil, leaving !7B in the
groundOO *ur Scientists reected it.3he highest recover
rate internationall is a$out ;0B hile the average
internationall is a$out 70B. Hoever, one of the
#o&panies as proposing to recover (&eaning to pu&p
out onl @B. 3his is the struggle e are engaged in.
Apart fro& anting to avoid the Scientists, the sa$oteurs,
orking on $ehalf of foreign interests, do not ant our
Petroleu& Progra&&e to succeed. 3he success of our
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Petroleu& Progra&&e in the ne't fe ears ill &ean
financial independence and financial &uscle for %ganda.
3hat is a orr to the internal sa$oteurs and their foreign
$ackers. A#*?4 has organi6ed the so/called se&inars at
the folloing places o$e =odge in Paraa, three in
+unono, to ti&es at I&perial Roale, I&perial
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congratulator victor gift. I gathered all of the& and put
the& in the )overn&ent Ranch at Ruhengere. I could
not accept such cattle on & far&s as & personal
propert. 4ventuall, I opened the Presidential ar& at
. I use the&, as President, to
donate the& for charita$le purposes. If I could not accept
gifts fro& %gandans, ho &uch &ore reprehensi$le is it
to accept &one, gifts and favours fro& foreigners for
personal useE 3he &align&ent $ internal sa$oteurs
orking on $ehalf of e'ternal parasitic interests &ust $e
stopped $ legal, political and &edia actions $ the R+
and )overn&ent leaders.
3he creation of foreign funded Parlia&entar ora that
are parallel to the #onstitutional #o&&ittees of
Parlia&ent, such as the atural Resources #o&&ittee, is
soðing that ou need to look at carefull. -h have a
foru& for oil and gas hen ou alread have the
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Parlia&entar #o&&ittee on the sa&e &andated $ the
#onstitutionE It is these foreign funded forces that are
used to derail our %ganda centric approach and,
instead, push for the foreign centric approach. 3his
circus, for instance, a$out the poers of the +inister.
-h ould so&e$od spend so &uch ti&e pushing to
over/involve the Authorit, hich is a regulator $od,
independent in its functions to ensure ualit, in licensing
and revoking of licensesE 3he for&ulation that /the
Minister will grant and revo0e licenses on the
recommendation of the +uthority ai&ed at diverting
the Authorit aa fro& their ork (control ualit of oil
activities, interfere in polic decisions hich so&eti&es
guides licensing (not to license co&panies fro& countries
hostile to %ganda to take an e'a&ple and could create
paralsis $eteen the +inister and the Authorit. If the
interest of the pro&oters of the circus on #lause ! as to
involve &ore $rains in the licensing, that is alread
achieved $ the +inister depending on our Scientists to
guide hi& or her. Indeed, Article 1@> (7($ of the 1!!"
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#onstitution of the Repu$lic of %ganda gives the #ivil
Servants i.e. Per&anent Secretaries (PS and his or her
staff the responsi$ilit of tendering advice to the
responsi$le &inister in respect of the $usiness of the
depart&ent or &inistrJ then, there is the #a$inet, the
President and, ulti&atel, Parlia&ent through their
oversight role. 3he Authorit is also involved, not in a
parallel a, $ut, rather, in a har&oni6ed a. 3he final
version of the Petroleu& (4'ploration, ?evelop&ent and
Production
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responsible for monitoring and regulating e(ploration,
development and production of petroleum in 2ganda.
4ver$od is involved $ut in a har&oni6ed a not
likel to cause paralsis, un/coordinated &ove&ents and
gaps for distorting the develop&ent of our oil and gas. It
is the Hon. Ssekiku$os ho anted to distort the
develop&ent of our oil and gas in the interests of foreign
interests, not the R+ )overn&ent ho discovered the
oil and have correctl shepherded it to here it is no
7." $illion $arrels confir&ed in the ground in onl >0B of
the area e e'pect to have the oil.
#o&&on sense de&ands that no foreigner or agent of
foreigners should ever involve hi&self or herself in our
politics. If foreign interference and do&ination ere a
source of prosperit, then, Africa should have $een the
&ost developed continent $ 1!;0. At that ti&e, Africa,
for "00 ears (ever since Casco ?a )a&a ent around
the #ape of )ood Hope in 1>!:, had gone through all
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for&s of foreign &eddling, do&ination, etc. 3he &enu5
ent fro& looting, slave trade, genocide to colonialis&.
3herefore, foreign interests tring to &eddle in our
politics and plans is not $eneficial. 3he foreigners alas
get it rong. 3he, for instance, elco&ed Idi A&in and
supported hi&. -e opposed hi& fro& the ord go. -ho
turned out to $e rong and ho turned out to $e rightE
3he outsiders ere rong, e ere right. -hen e ere
disar&ing the cattle/rustlers in ara&oa, so&e of the
outsiders, orking ith a %P# &e&$er, Pulkol, opposed
us. ara&oa is no peaceful and the are $eginning to
produce their on food. I have told ou that foreigners
supported Idi A&in and e opposed hi&. -hat, then,
ould have happened if e ere like in so&e of the other
African countries ho listen to foreignersE -here ould
%ganda $e todaE 3his is h co&&on sense should tell
us that listening to foreigners instead of listening to our
on people, ou ill, &ost likel, end up ith rong
results. It is not ust co&&on sense and histor that
for$id us fro& orking for foreigners. *ur #onstitution, in
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the ational *$ectives and ?irective Principles of State
Polic, it talks of /The tate and itizens of 2ganda shall
at all times defend the independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity of 2ganda. 3his is ational *$ective
o. IC. All this is put in the &ain $od of the #onstitution
$ Article :A of the #onstitution, hich sas that
82ganda shall be governed based on principles of
national interest and common good enshrined in the
national objectives and directive principles of state
policy. 3herefore, to get foreign/funded )*s, using
&endacit, to influence the direction of our countr in
ter&s of polic, offends the $itter lessons of African
histor, offends co&&on sense and offends our
constitution.
3hen, there is the $ad &anners of so&e of the actors.
=et us take
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other regi&es. I did not hear of .!B. 3he da& at
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(1>7 k&J +$arara/ikagati (@7 k&J )ulu/Atiak road (@>
k&J Hoi&a/aiso 3ona (!2 k&J Ishaka/aga&$a (7".>
k&sJ a&pala/4nte$$e 4'pressa ("1 k&sJ Curra/
Arua/*ra$aJ +oroto/akapiripirit (!7 k&J tunga&o/
+ira&a Hills (7@ k&J Atiak/i&ule (7" k&J a&enge/
ort Portal (;" k&J +$arara 1 k&J a&pala
orthern k&sJ +$arara/tunga&o/atuna (127 k&J
+$ale/Soroti (107 k&sJ 3ororo/+$ale (>! k&sJ a&pala/
+asaka (Phase to "1 k&, i.e. sangi/a&engo and
=ukaa/+asaka sectionsJ +ukono/Mina ("2 k&sJ
+ala$aL
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=okapel (>@ k&J asho6i/
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Regarding electricit, apart fro& 0 +-, +ue&$e (10 +-, a&$ura (:.7
+-, agak/III (>." +-, +a6i$a (1 +-, Acha/Agago
(::.: +-.
*n another occasion, I ill address ou a$out fighting
corruption. I ill do so hen ou co&e fro& the recess.
Suffice it, hoever, to tell ou to Runankore prover$s.
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*ne is a little stor ith a &eaning 4e0itebyo-. 3here is a
$ig $ird, )ntuuha (the #rested #rane and a ver s&all
one, a0afuunzi (the ire/fintch. *ne da the a0afuunzi
kicked the #rested #rane. 3hen the #rested #rane
despisingl said 8-hat sort of kick is thatE I do not feel
an pain9. 3hen, the +0afuunzi said /Ogwa
5wamushenguzi gwiita gwahora Fou ait, & kick
takes ti&e to produce results. -ith ti&e, ou ill feel the
real pain. 3he other one goes like this /+0asisi
nyabutahatwa 0atahatwa ora0atahatsire,
ota0a0atahataga, 0wa0atahata, a0aata. *ne of these
efficient African dialects sas, in essence, that onl the
one ith e'perience to solve previous pro$le&s can solve
the current ones.
I have told ou &an ti&es that it is the R+ that
stopped the e'tra/udicial killings ith i&punit in
%ganda, it is the R+ that re&oved ar& road $locks
that ere $eing used in looting people, it is the R+ that
stopped the raping of o&en, etc., it is the R+ that
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stopped corruption in %ganda Revenue Authorit (%RA, it
is the R+ that $uilt a disciplined Ar& and that it is the
R+ hich ill, si&ilarl, eli&inate the corruption in the
Pu$lic Service. 3hose envious of the R+5s &onu&ental
achieve&ents tr to pour scorn on this historical fact. -e
have no entered that phase. 3he e'posure of the
corruption in the *ffice of the Pri&e +inister (*P+, in the
&inistr of Pu$lic Service, in the &inistr of inance, in
the 1
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sa$oteurs and uislings of e'ternal interests. 3he R+
has led %ganda out of &ore difficult situations. Cictor is
ours.
I thank all of ou. I wish you a Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
"#th$ecember% &'"& ! Parliamentary uilding.