Speaking on his retirement, Museveni said he will only hand over power to someone who is useful.
President Museveni has once again aimed to dig at opposition leaders who continue to demand his retirement claiming that he will only hand over power to someone who is useful.
Museveni made the remarks while addressing NRM party leaders in Kigezi sub-region at Rukungiri Boma grounds.
He lashed out at opposition leaders including Besigye, Maj.Gen.Mugisha Muntu and Lt. Gen.Henry Tumukunde who have on notable occasions requested him to retire.
On these, Museveni said that they all have served in different positions during his regime but they did nothing for the respective areas they served.
The President reminded that he is still focused on the mission and those who want him to go should wait until he has achieved all his goals.
“They know my mission in politics but want to incite me to break my principles. They are shouting that I should go as if I don’t have where to go,” Museveni said.
“You failed to show your usefulness when I am still around and you want me to leave the country into your hands! You want me to go and leave Uganda into your hands who I have seen are useless. Let me stay around until I see someone useful,” Museveni added.
He, however, urged party leaders to work for the unity of all the people they serve without basing on tribes or regions and colour.
Museveni gave an example of his time while growing up citing that the people who helped raise him where not his tribemates.
“Don’t focus so much on tribes and religion or else you will be false prophets. While growing up, the three people who helped me study were not of my tribe. There was Walusimbi and Mpanga, both Baganda and one white man who used to buy my father’s cows and that’s how he got money to pay for my school fees,” Museveni cited.
“Up to now I don’t know if any of them was of my religion. The people who buy milk from Banyankole are not their fellow Banyankole but other people from Kampala. Don’t look at things with tribal and religious lenses.”
Museveni further noted that it is because the NRM government has worked towards the unity of the country that Uganda has managed to progress over the years.
“Uganda can do everything it wants. When we want to buy Uganda Airlines aircraft, we paid cash. We constructed the Kampala- Masaka, Kabale- Katuna and Mbarara-Ishaka- Katungulu roads using our own money. In other cases, we use borrowed money but we pay it back. No one can lend us if they know we can’t pay back.”
