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STRATEGIC GUIDELINES AND DIRECTIVES FOR THE TERM:

2016 - 2021

BY H.E. YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

AT THE INAUGURAL CABINET MEETING

ENTEBBE STATE HOUSE 23rd JUNE, 2016

His Excellency the Vice President,

Rt. Hon. Prime Minister,

Hon. Ministers.

Over the last 50 plus years, the NRM has identified four principles thatshaped our ideology and ten strategic bottlenecks that had to be

overcome for Uganda to become a middle income status country in the

next few years and a first World Country in this generation.

The four principles are: patriotism (non-sectarianism of religion or tribe

and no gender chauvinism); pan Africanism; social economic

transformation; and democracy. The ten strategic bottlenecks are:

Ideological disorientation;


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A weak State, especially the Army, that needed strengthening;

Under-developed infrastructure (the railways, the roads, the

electricity, the telephones, piped water, etc.);

The underdevelopment of the human resource (lack of education and

poor health for the population);

Interfering with the private sector (either by policy or by corruption);

A fragmented African market on account of colonialism; exporting

unprocessed raw materials and, therefore, getting little money and

losing jobs;

Lack of industrialization;

The underdevelopment of the services sector (hotels, banking,

transport, insurance, etc.);

The underdevelopment of agriculture;

The attack on democracy.

During my address to the NRM Conference last year, I was able to give

an audit as to what has been done in the last 30 years to eliminate

these bottlenecks. The issue of ideological disorientation has been

addressed. That is how the NRM is able to win democratic elections

with absolute majority in the last 30 years. The issue of a weak State

has been addressed. This is how we have a strong Army to keep peace.With infrastructure, the issue of the deficit of electricity has been

addressed. We now have a surplus of 100 mgws even at the peak hours

of electricity use that is between 6:00p.m (18:00hours) and 10:00 p.m.

(22:00hours). The roads are being tarmacked and the railway will be


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modernized. Many of the towns now have piped water. This is not only

good for health but many industries need a lot of water in their

production. The ICT backbone has been completed and has been linked

to the undersea cables in Kenya and Tanzania. The Civil Service iseducated although they have issues of integrity. Education and

improved healthcare have meant that average life expectancy has grown

from 43 years to 63 years and that the adult literacy rate has gone from

56.1% in 1991 to 72.2% in 2014. Many youth can now read and write,

have mastered numeracy and can use the internet. They, however, need

more skills in the areas of agriculture, metal work, construction,

ceramics, motor-mechanics, computer use, etc., etc.

On the side of agriculture, we have resolved the issue of improved seeds

and improved breeding stock. The problem, however, is that this

information is not available to all the farmers. Some continue to use the

old seeds when the new ones are available. With the breeding stock, you

find a lot of cattle that are under-performing yet consuming the grassthat should be consumed by cows that are giving more than 20 litres a

day.

The issue of the fragmented African market has been resolved. Working

with our brothers and sisters in EAC and COMESA, we have created

the regional market of 500 million people. We have also negotiated for

access to the international markets (AGOA, EBA, the Chinese market,

etc., etc.)


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By handling infrastructure, we have the possibility to lower the costs of

doing business in the economy especially if the Ministry of Finance

resolves the issue of high electricity costs for the Bujagali power station

that was badly negotiated. With low costs of doing business in theeconomy, Uganda can now take off as a middle income country. Uganda

now has the base from which to take off. Previously, we did not have

that base.

What, then, are the tasks of the new Government? What are my Orders

of the Day as the Head of the Government? The following are myguidelines or orders, whatever is more applicable.

1. Work with the proprietors of Bujagali to lower the costs of electricity

produced by that station. It may involve tax exemption and whatever

other measures that are needed that must bring down the cost of that

electricity to may be around 6 American cents per unit from the present

11 American cents per unit. Then a subsidy must be put in place to

reduce the cost of electricity to the manufacturer to 5 American cents.

These measures must be concluded in the next six months i.e. by

February 2017. Lower electricity costs will attract more investors and

make our industries more competitive.

2. Negotiations for the Standard Gauge Railway must be concluded so

that the construction starts. Here, I may not put a deadline because we

are working with the Chinese. With our oil money, I will not tolerate

any delays of any type because, then, we shall be able to fund everything

ourselves if necessary. These two measures, lowering the cost of


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electricity and the cost of transport, will have decisive strategic

implications for the forward movement of the economy. It will be much

easier to attract and retain investments as already pointed out above.

3. To make it even easier for the investors to come in, we must build the

22 Industrial Parks we have talked about for so long. It is not serious to

give an investor a swamp that he must drain at his own cost, etc. The

Industrial Parks should be built by the UPDF Engineering Brigade. You

should complete the one of Namanve, construct the one of Nakasongola,

etc. You can even think of using manual labour of the prisoners. Getmoving to resolve this issue of Industrial Parks. Build five per year so

that in 5 years, you will have built the 25. It is not complicated

technology: make the access roads, pull electricity, pull piped water, pull

the internet under-ground cables etc. It is, mainly, civil works. How can

our engineers fail to do this?

4. Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) must get all the necessary

licences in two days. These must include the Environmental Impact

Assessment. None of these factories is likely to be a pioneering one in

the World. Similar ones have been built in other parts of the World. Our

soils are known. Even me, a layman in those matters, I know the soils

that are enoombe (red-brown), eibumba (clay), olusheenyi (sandy soil),

etc. I will, therefore, not tolerate any delays. It is a betrayal of our

country to see an official tossing (kuhuuba) investors as if they are his

employees (abapakasi) or people begging from him (abashabi). This

betrayal has gone on for too long. No delays whatsoever. If it is a

nuisance operation like stone-quarrying in the midst of the population,


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involve all of us by approaching quickly the concerned Minister and

Prime Minister. The rock out - crops (ebibaale) may be in the midst of

the people, granted. Those stones, however, belong to the Government

and the whole country needs them for the countrys roads if they are notto be preserved for cultural or historical purposes e.g. Nyero Rocks,

Oculoi, Karegyeya, Kakijwiiga, Mugore, etc. The population around

cannot, therefore, stop these rocks being used to transform their

country. Witness the Roman stones in the streets of Rome, 2000 years

old. Our Engineers could learn from the Roman engineers. The villagers

may need compensation for their houses, and also sensitization, etc.

Before the Industrial Estates are built, investors will buy their own

pieces of land as the Chinese have done in Mukono, Sanga etc., etc.

Using standard assessment methods, UIA and NEMA can quickly

assess what needs to be done to protect a river or a wetland. There

should be a standard formula for these purposes.

Besides, the Minister of Finance and Minister of Industry must have

respective units that conduct feasibility studies for all our potential

products, across the whole spectrum of our raw materials of agriculture,

minerals, etc., that they keep ready for presentation to the investors.

Investors have many other destinations they can go to. It is, therefore,

wrong for us to sit back and think that it is the duty of the investors to

conduct feasibility studies. It is us to carry out the feasibility studies

because it is us who have the duty to promote our Countrys prosperity.

If the Ministries of Finance and Industry do not do that, then their

designations should be changed and be called Ministry of Begging and


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Ministry of Importing, respectively. The studies should not only cover

our raw-materials of agriculture, minerals, forests, fresh-water

resources, etc. They should also cover the products of skills (car-

assembly, machine-fabrication) and the products of the brain(computers, soft-ware, etc.).

5. There must be zero tolerance to corruption. It is a big shame to see

Government officials delaying or frustrating investments because they

want bribes. I partly blame investors for not exposing these thieves.

Indeed, the investors who want to cut corners and do shoddy jobs,actually welcome the corrupt tendencies of these officials because they,

then, get away with shoddy jobs or products. Otherwise, the genuine

and credible investors should report these parasites for drastic action to

be taken against them.

6. Then, there is a problem of poor regulation. Who violated the

Government policy of not licensing new sugar factories within the

radius of 50 kms of an existing factory? The Banyankole say: ikumi

ryomukibuga, rikira igana riragurwa the ten cows you already have

in the kraal are better than the 100 the soothsayer (the muraguzi) says

you will have one day in the future. Why undermine the sugar

operators that are already producing 420,000 metric tonnes (2014/15) of

sugar (Kakira, Lugazi and Kinyara)? These mistakes must be rectified if

they are injurious to the old sugar producers. The same goes for the raw

milk vendors. These undermine the milk factories and undermine the

nutrition of our people. The big market of our milk is in the export area.

You cannot export unless the milk is processed. Which enemy, then,


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would want to kill our exports because he wants to give advantage to

cheating raw-milk sellers whose prosperity depends on selling milk

diluted with water and which is not monitored? I salute the Ministry of

Agriculture for having been firm on this.

7. As far as the sector of agriculture is concerned, the other day, I

identified 11(eleven) issues to deal with, some of them in this Kisanja

(term - enchuro).

These are:

a. Converting the 68% of the homesteads from subsistence farming to

commercial agriculture. I have already directed you to concentrate, for

this purpose, on Clonal and Arabica coffee, fruits (oranges, pineapples,

mangoes, grapes and apples), zero grazing Dairy cattle, poultry,

piggery, fish farming, onion growing and mushroom growing. However,

for purposes of focusing for the next two financial years, concentrate on:coffee, fruits and tea. Later, we can add the others. If we get additional

funding beyond the Uganda shillings 361 billion for NAADS, then we

can look at including the other activities.

b. Lack of linkages between the Research Institutes

and many of the farmers. The planting and breeding materials are therebut they are not used by the stakeholders that need them badly as has

already been pointed out above. All the RDCs and CAOs must

popularize the improved seeds and breeding stock. All the Radio

stations and TV stations must allocate time for the same.


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c. The low use of fertilizers must be rectified. In Uganda we use an

average of 2.5 kgs per hectare. In the USA, they use 132.kgs per

hectare. The fertilizer projects at Sukuru Hills and Mwitanzigye (Lake

Albert) must be expedited. Later on, you can get potassium from Lake

Katwe, I hear. That will enable us to formulate the NPK that is

required for many crops. The Ministers of Industries and Agriculture

must follow up this vigorously.

d. The ending of subsistence farming, must go hand in hand with thecorrect enterprise selection and halting land fragmentation which

disables the profitability of land. Too small pieces of land, 4 acres and

less, are no longer able to economically produce crops like maize, sugar

cane, tobacco, cotton, sorghum, beans, etc., or cater for the indigenous

cattle. That is why we need high value crops like coffee etc. as pointed

out above.

e. All crops and products that are not consumed fresh must be processed

value addition. This will enable us to earn more money and also

create more jobs for our children and grandchildren. That is why we

need rapid decision making. No delays in decision making in respect of

private sector investments where entrepreneurs have done their own

studies and are going to invest their own money, without Governmentguarantees and they just need licensing or land.


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f. There is also the high cost of finance. The privatization of Commercial

Banks was supposed to inject efficiency and competition into the

financial sector and bring down the interest rates. It has not. The

interest rates are shameful, 23.5% etc. This is inspite of the inflationrate being 5%. Therefore, the Uganda Development Bank (UDB), which

we had deliberately kept away from privatization, should be capitalized

to fund manufacturing and agriculture.

g. The Minister of Agriculture, working with the private sector, should

solve the problem of agricultural machinery for ploughing, forharrowing, for bush-clearing, for water excavation, etc. Who should be

assisted to own and operate agricultural machinery? Should it be rich

individuals, should it be co-operatives?

h. We have done good work on vector eradication and disease control for

crops and livestock. We need to encourage the production of acaricides

(anti-ticks), injectibles, salts, vaccines, fungicides, insecticides, etc. here

in Uganda so as to create backward and forward linkages with

agriculture. Dr. Nantulya is already making some vaccines here. Assist

him to consolidate and expand. A British, Northern Ireland Company

had agreed to make acaricides here. Conclude with them and they start

production.

i. There are agro-practices that are neglected but are known spacing

of plants, excavating of water harvesting trenches, contour cultivation

on the hillsides so as to stop soil erosion etc., etc. All the District

Agricultural Officers (DAOs) must ensure that, through education, not


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coercion, these practices are adopted or restored. Action will be taken

against any DAO that fails to do so.

j. Eliminating of over-fishing on the Lakes. I talked alot about this in

the State of the Nation Address recently.

k. Beyond repairing Doho and Mobuku and commissioning Olweny and

Agoro, we have not done much on irrigation. This is not because we do

not know the importance of irrigation. It is because we decided to deal

with electricity, the roads, ICT and the railways, first. When our oil

starts flowing, we shall be able to handle the mega irrigation projects

around Mount Elgon, Mount Rwenzori, the South Western High lands

and the Agoro hills. As far as the low lands are concerned, I have

already told Makerere University to develop a solar powered water

pump to push water, at the local level, to any raised ground where it

can, then, flow by gravity to the farm. Did Makerere succeed in

designing the solar-powered water pump or did they fail? Let us get

moving on this. If Makerere failed, what else do we do?

8. The Petroleum and Gas sector is moving well. We have agreed on the

Refinery and the Pipeline. Let the officials, then, expedite the granting

of production licenses so that the actual production starts. The

petroleum, through both the Refinery and the pipeline, will give us cash

that will help us expand infrastructure (electricity, some of the roads,

the railway, irrigation, etc.) and fund innovations and research. This

petroleum and gas should be flowing by 2019/2020 latest. Much of the

work has been accomplished in this area: exploration, the discovery of


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the petroleum and gas, agreeing on the pipeline, training our scientists,

etc., etc.

9. There is, apparently, great potential in the minerals sector. There is

iron-ore, copper, cobalt, gold, vermiculite, aluminum clays, wolfram, tin,

coltan, uranium, etc. There are, however, three weaknesses in the

Minerals Department that must be rectified in this financial year or, at

the latest, the next one. One, that Department must be equipped with a

modern laboratory to test and, therefore, help to quantify the mineral

presence in an area and determine its quality. The Department shouldnot depend on the mineral prospectors to do this. This is a wrong policy.

The officials must do this themselves. They must do the drilling and the

assaying (testing) of the quality and determine the quantity of the

minerals present themselves rather than depending on the miners to do

the drilling.

The second mistake is to allow chaos to exist in the mining area and to

allow illegal mining. All the artisan miners should be registered and for

instance the gold they mine should be declared so that it is exported

through formal channels. The NRM people who are involved in this

mining should be sensitized to see the importance of this. The country is

losing alot of money in this chaotic situation.

The worst mistake is to allow these artisanal miners to block scientificexploration that could get us to the rock of gold from which the alluvial

fragments came from in the past. Nobody should interfere with the

exploration.


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With the unimpeded exploration, the taming of artisanal mining and

stopping the illegal exports, we shall, then, be able to know which

minerals are to be found in Uganda and in what quantities. If, for

instance, we find that we have got alot of gold, we shall, then, startconsidering the building of the gold refinery to purify the gold from 88%

from Karamoja and Busia to 93% of gold from Buhweju - Bushenyi to

the required 99.9%.

10. One problem that has been rampant is the damage of the

environment by invading forests, encroaching on the wetlands,damaging the River banks and destroying the vegetation protecting the

Lake shores. This must stop and where the ecology demands it, the

encroachers, using persuasive and educative ways, should be made to

vacate. If necessary, some more land should be purchased from the

private owners to increase the forest cover. I normally see Islands of

settlements inside the Mabira Forest. Why cant the Government

persuade them to sell to the Government so that the forest becomes onecontinuous mass like the Bwindi and the Imaramagaambo forests?

There was supposed to be a belt of 200 metres, from the beach of the

Lakes inwards, of undisturbed vegetation cover or forest that would help

to filter soil from being washed into the lakes to cause pollution and

silting. What happened to that plan? The Minister should review the

issue of the protection of the Lake shore. Our great grandchildren will

curse us for these mistakes. To clean the environment even more, theKampala Capital City Authority should quickly license investors that

have been seeking to recycle garbage, recycle polythene bags and

plastics and, more recently, to recycle E-waste (old batteries, old TV

sets, old computers, old mobile phones, etc.). This, together with the


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protection and expansion of forests and protection of the wetlands, will

safe-guard our environment, at least, locally. We shall, then, remain

with the global problems of greenhouse gases etc. that are being

handled under the Kyoto Protocols. There is a Scientist called Mafabiand his group. They told me that by allowing the wetlands to be dried

up, we may destroy 40% of Ugandas rainfall per annum. They told me

that, for instance, the difference between West Nile and Karamoja, in

terms of the rainfall the two areas get, is that West Nile benefits from

the swamps of South Sudan and the forests of Congo, being on the same

latitude notwithstanding. West Nile gets between 1350-1500mm of rain

per annum while Karamoja only gets 808mm of rain per annum. I hadagreed with the opinion leaders in the Ankole Kigezi area to get a

fund to help our people who innocently encroached on the wetlands to

vacate and be helped to own shops, houses for renting or buy land

elsewhere. In any case, we need this water for irrigation, around the

swamps and down-stream, now that we are serious with agriculture. I

had started dialogue on this Fund with Prince Charles of UK and some

of the UN bodies. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and my staff shouldremind me to conclude that dialogue.

11. This Cabinet must address the issue of service delivery decisively,

especially in the areas of health care, Education and feeder roads. Poor

service delivery irritates the population greatly and undermines the

support for the NRM. The NRM would have scored 80% in the lastelections if it was not for the weaknesses in service delivery. In health

care, there is the problem of stealing drugs from the Health Centres

and the problem of Medical workers neglecting patients. There is the

problem of shoddy work in health care infrastructure wrongly


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constructed buildings, for instance, even brand new ones. Those

responsible must be traced and punished. Impunity in that sector has

gone on for too long.

On the side of Education, there is a problem of absenteeism from school

by teachers. Recently, while watering my cattle, a six year old boy, son of

one of my herdsmen, requested me to give him money to go to a private

primary school. When I asked him the reason why he does not go to the

Government Primary Schools, he told me: Abaana nibasiiba nibazaana

the children spend the whole day playing in other words, teachers

do not teach. UPE was supposed to be free. However, one encounters so

many children that have been expelled from schools for failure to pay

school charges. This must stop. Why should Government spend shillings

68,540,381,340 billion on UPE and shillings 129,509,250,451 billion on

USE per year, but, then, the children of the poor are expelled from

schools that do not teach and where the teachers are paid more than in

the private schools that teach well? The problem is poor supervision. IfEducation must be paid for, then let us divert that money so that we

complete our programme of road construction.

We are supposed to have one Government Primary School per Parish,

one Government Secondary School per Sub-County and one

Government Technical School per Constituency. In these five years, this

Government country-wide infrastructure for Education must be

completed. The US$ 200 million I borrowed from the African

Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) was misused by

constructing five star hotels in the form of 650 Secondary Schools and


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60 Centres of Excellence sometimes brand new but multi-billion

shining secondary schools. My plan, using the old Masaba Secondary

School as a model, was to spend Uganda shillings 500 million per

school, at that time, to build many sub-county level schools. Once themoney was received, nobody consulted me. Let us use simple bungalow

brick, cement and mabaati school structures no storeyed buildings to

cover all the parishes with Government Primary Schools, all the Sub-

Counties with, at least, one Secondary School and all the Constituencies

with, at least, one Technical School each. In some cases, parents have

already built, on a voluntary basis, community Secondary Schools. They

only want the Government to take them over. Where there is noGovernment Secondary school in a sub-county, let that method be used.

The same goes for Health care centres. We need a district Hospital per

district, a Health Centre IV per Constituency and a Health Centre III

per sub-county. I refused to take on the HC IIs which some groups had

gone into in order to get contracts for construction. The HC IV should bemanned by 49 health workers including doctors and the Health Centre

III should be manned by 19 health workers. The details were agreed on

and they are available. HC IIs would have added another Army of, I

think, 63,000 workers that would have simply chammed (eaten) our

money with no significant value addition in terms of Health care. The

Sub-County is not too far. Let us consolidate our health delivery there.

The Ministry of Health should assist Ms. Enrica Pinetti to build her

hospital at Lubowa so that referrals abroad stop and we stop the

haemmorhage of an estimated US$ 150 million per year that goes into


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medical tourism to India. The heart, the kidneys, the brain and the

cancers should all be treated here.

The other issue that irritates the people in the rural areas are the

impassable feeder roads. We are buying 1151 pieces of equipment from

Japan. These will enable each district to get an additional grader, a

wheel-loader, a road compactor, a water bowser and two tippers. At the

zonal level (Teso, Busoga, etc.), there will be one bull-dozer and its low-

loader. The Municipalities will also get their share. Some of this

equipment will enable the Government agencies to tarmac some of theroads using direct labour mysteriously named force account. The

districts and municipalities will now work on the roads without using

the notorious contractors that, working with corrupt officials, had

become the main channel of haemmorhage for the State resources.

12. A parasitic collaborator class was created in, especially, in Buganda

by the British through the wicked scheme of Mailo. Our people in this

area, were turned into serfs. The British, eventually, had the common

sense to rein-in these vultures in 1928, through the Busuulu and Nvujjo

law. The Busuulu had to have a ceiling and no eviction could be carried

out without the permission of the Governor. When we came on the

scene, we strengthened that legislation and even criminalized eviction.

However, the evictions are going on mainly using the ignorance of the

bibanja owners and the corruption and collusion of the Gombolola

Chiefs, Miruka Chiefs, the Magistrates, Security personnel and the

RDCs. Otherwise, there is no legal basis for these evictions.

Nevertheless, this historical injustice to our common people in Buganda


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must be ended. The Government should, therefore, look into the

possibility of raising funds to pay off these land lords so that the bibanja

owners get ownership (obwananyini). The measures to raise money

should include discussing with the British to provide a grant for, atleast, part of the cost if not the whole cost because it was their mistake.

Here we should not forget the war crimes the British and their Baganda

collaborators committed in Bunyoro. Bunyoro is also entitled to some

compensation. Therefore, in this term, the NRM should think of how to

resolve this issue once and for all one of the past mistakes which was

one of the 10 points programme.

13. The Armed Forces have played a decisive role in the recovery of

Uganda. Especially the NRA/UPDF, their driving force has been the

ideology that was inculcated into them by the NRM leadership right

from the beginning. On account of that mentality, the NRA/UPDF has

been able to give total peace to Uganda cheaply. With a small budget of

US 500 million dollars per year, the NRA/UPDF has been able toprovide security to the people of Uganda, across the whole land, for the

first time in 500 years. Besides, the UPDF has also contributed to

regional peace. In this term (Kisanja), I want the Ministry of Defence

and the Army leadership to solve the problems of the Army, the Police,

the Intelligence services and the Prison services. First to be resolved is

housing. The ordinary soldier should have, at least, a two bed-room

bungalow or flat. Next to be solved is the education of the soldierschildren. Right from 1986, I directed the concerned people to build

Primary schools in all the barracks where the Soldiers children should

study free. The same should be done for the Secondary Schools. The

Secondary Schools used to be in Masindi, Jinja, Nakasongola and the


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Kadogo School in Mbarara. Even if there was an Army Secondary

School per division, provided they were boarding and the Army

produced food for feeding the Schools, that would be adequate. An Army

University may not be economical. Instead, the Army leadership shouldconclude discussions on my directive to them to find a formula of

funding University education for deserving soldiers children. Should we

use the Army SACCO? Should we make deductions from the soldiers

salaries? Get a solution. All soldiers spouses should be economically

active around the barracks instead of sitting around and gossiping.

Poultry farming, mushroom growing, fish-farming, knitting, weaving,

etc., etc. are some of the activities the soldiers spouses should beengaged in. These would give the soldiers spouses additional incomes

for their families. Finally, in the coming financial years, we should

gradually and affordably increase the salaries of soldiers and other

security personnel until they come in line with the salaries of the

teachers and the medical workers.

14. In these five years, Uganda will encourage the setting up of a

National Airline. Ugandan travellers are suffering because of,

apparently, not having a National Airline. A ticket to Nairobi costs

between US$ 1100-1200 (business class) and US$ 500-700 (economy

class) depending on the time of booking while a ticket to London costs

between US$ 2700-3000 (business class) and US$1000-1300 (economy

class). This is a big shame. I did not care much about a National Airline.I thought that our brothers in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, etc. having

Airlines would serve all of us. That, however, is apparently not the case.

Hence, the Ministry of Works and Transport is directed to conclude

discussions with the investors that can help us to start a National


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Airline. A National Airline would help us to save US$420 million per

year Ugandans spend on travel. The National Airline will also create

jobs and career opportunities for our children who train as pilots at

Soroti Flying School. These children apparently suffer when they try toget jobs. Apart from joining the Uganda Airforce, opportunities for them

are very limited. The Airlines of our brothers and sisters that benefit

from Ugandan market should have remembered to treat our children as

their own because our purchasing power is supporting those airlines.

15. According to the resource envelope, without deviating from thepriorities of defence and security, electricity, the roads, the railways,

NAADS, Education, Health, Innovation and the Industrial Parks, we

should budget for the gradual elimination of our indebtedness to the

veterans of the Army, the kasimo of the civilian veterans and the cattle

compensation in the areas of Lango, Acholi, Teso abit of West Nile, some

parts of Karamoja and Sebei. This money should be given directly to the

beneficiaries and not through lawyers or anything like that.

In order to avoid doubt, our priorities among priorities remain: Defence

and Security, electricity generation and distribution, tarmacking all the

major roads already identified, Japanese equipment for the feeder

roads, the Standard Gauge Railway, NAADS, the Industrial Parks, the

Innovation Fund, the Youth Fund and the Women Fund. We should not

tamper with these core priorities.

No delay in decision making in relation to the self-funded private sector

enterprises, zero corruption and strict regulation. Now that we have the


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foundation, Uganda will take off. As far as corruption is concerned, we

are going to impose strict discipline in the Public Service as we did in

the Army and, where possible also in the Political Class.

In the past, I was not using this method of consolidated written

directives to the whole Government. This was because I thought that it

was not necessary since decisions and exchange of ideas would be taken

by and would be in the Cabinet where all the Ministers would be, not to

forget the Head of Civil Service who represents that branch of the State.

When we were fighting Amin, we would heap all the blame on hisilliterate soldiers. Little did I believe that even the educated people

could let down their own people. Therefore, as the lawyers say, for the

avoidance of doubt, I have put pen and paper together to ensure that no

portion of our plans that is implementable will remain un-executed.

With that happening, Uganda will be a middle income country by 2020

now that we have the foundation.

In the future, from time to time, I will be giving detailed sub-directives

in the different sectors outlined above. In any case, all that should not

be necessary because we are all privy to our plans and our mission.

Rubanga Kony.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Gen. Rtd.)

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

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