Museveni made the remarks while addressing NRM party leaders in districts of Ntoroko and Bundibugyo.
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party presidential candidate, Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa has lashed out at his critics insisting that he is not in government for money gains.
Museveni made the remarks while addressing NRM party leaders in districts of Ntoroko and Bundibugyo. He said that in recent years he has heard many people claim that he is in government for survival but this is not true.
Museveni however, reminded that he is a rich man and was rich before switching to politics. He noted that during Amin’s regime, he chose to retire from a good government job and ran into the bush to fight for the well being of Ugandans.
“I am a humble man and I don’t want to quarrel with people but am not happy with people who want to provoke me to say bad things. I don’t need to be in government for a living because I am quite a rich man,” Museveni said.
The NRM candidate emphasized that his actual motivation for being desperate about being in politics is the security of Ugandans.
Also, he said that he is also focused on serving and transforming the lives of the people. Museveni told that many politicians urge voters to vote for them so that they can go and secure their private lives and futures.
“My actual motivation for being in politics is security of Ugandans. I didn’t like the Kings African Rifles which was the army of the colonialists and the way they were beating people. That’s why I want to build an army of our own people that doesn’t beat them. That’s why our army is in Somalia, a Muslim country and is loved yet the Americans spent a few years there,” he noted.
“The politics should start with social-economic transformation. The problem is that many people come into politics to be voted for and not work for their people, My involvement in politics was because of the social transformation of my people. Don’t come into politics for money but rather God will reward you if do good. You must be change agents and my job is not to carry you but rather show you the way.”
Museveni however, urged the area people to switch to the commercial means of farming citing that it is the only way they can attain enough money to transform their lives.
“The four-acre model is my medicine from 1966. After analysis, I realized people need to know how to work for both their stomachs and pockets,” Museveni urged.
“I am not talking about ranching, growing sugarcanes, or cotton because this needs to be done by big people. I am focusing on small people who are not rich. That’s way I sometimes get annoyed with leaders who don’t put into practice what I tell them.”
