Yoweri Museveni has urged the people of Uganda mostly in the Ankole region to adjust to commercial means of production.
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party presidential candidate, Yoweri Museveni has urged the people of Uganda mostly in the Ankole region to adjust to commercial means of production.
Museveni made the remarks on Tuesday while addressing NRM leaders from areas of Bushenyi, Rubirizi, Sheema, Mitooma and Buhweju at St Kaggwa primary school in Bushenyi.
He said they should encourage the people they serve to embark on large scale means of production to be in a position to generate incomes both for their families as well as home consumption.
“You need to ask people to start working for both their stomachs and pockets but with a calculation. I need you to do an audit of how the villages are performing in terms of this idea of working for both the stomachs and pockets,” Museveni urged.
He, however, lashed out at critics telling him to retire. Museveni said that Ugandans calling for his head are not serious because he has done so much for the country over the years.
He said that they should embark on uniting as Ugandans and Africa as a whole because this will also help in widening Uganda’s market base.
“Those People who shout you go, you go, do you think I don’t know where to go? They are not serious. I sometimes wonder why they are making noise. Is it for food or noise for war,” Museveni lashed out.
“The NRM started long ago to warn you against sectarianism. Let us work for the unity of Uganda, East Africa and Africa to have a bigger market for our products. If China with over a population of over one billion is looking for foreign markets, why not us with only 40 million people.”
Meanwhile, he commented on the latest rankings by Bloomberg that saw Uganda named one of the five fastest-growing economies in the world. Museveni pinpointed that such achievements have been possible because of NRM’s governance.
He said that it is because of the evil deeds by a section of some legislators who divert government funds into doing other things that have delayed the country’s progress.
“This is because of the wise decisions we took. We introduced privatization and liberalization of the economy. We used peace as a bait to attract foreigners to invest here and we get money from them in form of taxes. These have helped our economy grow,” Museveni added.
“If budgeting is done properly, we can do all things we want. Like these roads we have constructed here are done using our own money. Tell your MPs to listen to my advice. You find they have diverted money to do other things, to go London and Europe to benchmark so that they can do exact things like Europe. We should do like we did in 2006 when I put my foot down and we increased funding for roads and electricity.”
