Museveni's speech to NRM at Kololo

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Now That There Is a Strong Foundation

NRM DELEGATES CONFERENCE 2015Address by the Chairman

General (RTD) Yoweri Kaguta MuseveniNAMBOOLE

I greet all of you the delegates of the

National Conference. I extend condolences

to all of us for those of our members who,

since the last conference, are no longer

with us on this earth. Let us stand up for

a minute of silence to remember all those

comrades that left us. May their souls

rest in eternal peace.

Ekibazibira:

One of my grandfathers named one of his

daughters, my aunt, “Ekibazibira” (what

stops women from getting successful

marriages). In otherwords, the common

mistakes that disrupt marriages. Many

years later, I came across one of our Judges

from Busoga with the name: “Ekirikubinza”(what will cause you a divorce). The same

concept of what problems that will cause


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the failure of marriage. The two names,

from the different parts of Uganda, are

male chauvinist attitudes of the African

communities of our area that held the

women were solely responsible for the

success or otherwise of marriages.Nevertheless, the concept of indentifying

the obstacles that can block the progress

or success of something desirable is well

brought out by these names.

Strategic Goals and Strategic

Bottlenecks:

Over the last 50 years, I have come, along

with my colleagues, to clearly identify theunavoidable desirable strategic targets for

our people and the strategic bottlenecks

that block the achievements of those

targets (ebizibira, ebilemesa, ebirobera,

Teso-elolong, Luo-aranyi, Lugbara-aku-

anziza). Over the years, we have correctly


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targets and the blockages that obstruct

the obstacles that block the achievement

of those goals and of the remedies to

those obstacles have been captured in

the 10 points programme promulgated

at Kanyaara, the 15 points brought outat Jinja, the four NRM Principles and

other NRM documents. Therefore, on this

occasion, one way of restating the diagnosis

of our problems and the prescription of

their cure is to bring out the two parts by

answering three questions.

The Questions:

Question number one: “What are thestrategic goals of the people of Uganda

and Africa?”

Number two: “What are the strategic

obstacles to those strategic goals?”

Number three: “How far has the NRM

gone in pursuing the realization of the

strategic goals and in removing the


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strategic bottlenecks?” Answering these

questions will simplify for the population

the understanding of our strategic goals,

the obstacles we have had to deal with,

how far we have so far gone and, of

course, what we intend to do in the further

execution of the plans for the realizationof our strategic goals.

Prosperity and Security:

The strategic goals of the Uganda people

and their African brothers and sisters

should be: “prosperity and strategic

of prosperity, we are talking of prosperitythrough production and not through

parasitism. Production means production

of goods and services, not, as already

pointed out, through parasitism. When

I produce a good or a service, somebody

must buy that good or service; otherwise,

I become bankrupt. Moreover, the more


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people that buy my goods or services, the

more prosperous I will become and the

more prosperous will the wider society

become. How? It is because I will employ

more people whom I will pay.

The more prosperous the business, the

more raw-materials from agriculture,

consume depending on the sector the

business is in. The more taxes the

business will pay, the more prosperous it

is, etc. etc.

Patriotism and Pan-Africanism:It is this realization by the NRM and its

precursors that the most fundamental

legitimate interest of the people is

prosperity, that led us to evolve the

principles of patriotism and Pan-

Africanism.


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Down with Sectarianism:

It is this realization that led us to hold

in contempt and revulsion the bankrupt

notions of sectarianism of tribe and

religion and gender chauvinism. The

realization of the need for the prosperity of

our people, through production, led us tothe conclusion that the more people that

a political unit has, the better. This is

in sharp contrast to the Katangaists and

Biafrans who, opportunistically, wanting

to base their prosperity on minerals

found in their regions, proclaimed: “The

fewer the better”. That realization led

them to secessionism. That led us to ask

two questions: “What is more important

the natural resources?” As to the question

of interests versus sub-identity, the NRM

discovered and emphatically stated that

the people’s interests were more primary

and important than the issue of the sub-


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identities. On the question of natural

resources versus the human resource,

the NRM discovered and emphatically

stated that the human resource was more

important than the natural resources.

Do we need proof? It is there in plenty.

the world, have got plenty of the human

resource and scarcity of the natural

resources. Examples: China, Japan,

oil), Nigeria (plenty of everything), Uganda

(plenty of everything), etc., etc.

Economic Integration: Therefore, in pursuit of the need for the

prosperity of our people, the NRM stands

for patriotism within Uganda (rejecting

sectarianism of religion or tribe and gender

chauvinism) and for Pan-Africanism in

Africa. Pan-Africanism has two elements


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integration. Economic integration aims

at aggregating our fragmented markets

on account of colonialism so as to create

more space for our producers of goods and

them. Political integration, aiming at the

Political Federation of East Africa, aimsat curing another problem that we shall

shortly address.

Symbol of the East African Community


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With economic integration, in search

of prosperity, we aim at the formation

of the common market of the whole of

Africa. We have already succeeded in the

resurrection of the EAC and the formation

our brothers and sisters, working on the

for the Common Market of the whole of

Africa. This will ensure that our goods

and services will be sold in the whole

length and breadth of Africa. The present

population of Africa is 1.23 billion people.

The population of Africa in 2050 will be 2.5

billion people. This is the greatest wealthof Africa. This educated and healthy

population will be consuming more (thus

constituting a huge market) and producing

more. With this huge market, we can

also negotiate, credibly and sustainably,

China, Russia, India, Brazil, EU, etc.,


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The African population – source: Electronic Urban

Report

President Museveni addresses the 70thUnited Nations General Assembly in New York, 2015.


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on a reciprocal basis. Internal strength

in Africa, will give us more credibility to

negotiate externally.

By achieving this goal of economic

integration and provided we solve other

strategic bottlenecks soon to be laidout, Africa will undergo fundamental

socio-economic transformation. The

African countries, including Uganda,

will individually, become First World

countries. Uganda will become a middle-

income country by 2019 and an upper

middle income country by 2040 provided

we solve the problems created by the other

bottlenecks.

However, before I talk about the other

conclude on the issue of the importance

of integration. Apart from the need for

prosperity as already seen, integration is

also for security.


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The ultimate security means the ability

defeating any aggressor on the globe.

The guaranteeing of our sovereignty

should not depend on anybody else

except ourselves and some like-minded

allies of similar interests and a common

was able to defeat the fascist aggressors

almost single-handedly. Nevertheless,

the Western allies, inactive for most of

the duration of the war, also made some

contribution albeit a minor one.

The question then is: “Can Uganda, even

guarantee our sovereignty against

or the future?” The answer is clearly:

war. France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark,

Norway were all conquered. Possibly,


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even the UK could have been conquered if

Hitler did not make the strategic mistakes

of bombing cities rather than bombing the

British Air force bases into submission

Germany’s ally, by attacking the United

which, eventually, brought about the defeat

of both Germany and Japan. Therefore,

becoming a First World country, per se ,

does not immunize us against aggression.

It is strategic strength that does that.

Political Integration:

How? By creating strength that deters any

aggressor. That is why political integration iscrucial. It is political integration that targets

security. Economic integration targets

prosperity. Of course, in the end, prosperity

also depends on strategic security.

The other strategic goal is socio-economic

transformation. It is also principle no.


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3 as far as the NRM is concerned. We

moving towards a middle-class and skilled

be achieved unless we solve the other

strategic bottlenecks. We have already

addressed the bottleneck of narrow,small markets. The answer for that is

economic integration. The other strategic

bottlenecks are:

Low level of human resource

development; the answer for this isimproved education and health;

Inadequate infrastructure (electricity,

the roads, the railways, piped water

for drinking, water for irrigation and

production, ICT, telephones etc.);this raises the costs of production in

the economy, thereby undermining

and the competitiveness of our

products;

Interfering with the private sector,

thereby killing their initiative; yet


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the parastatals tend to be corrupt

and end up being uneconomic;

Continuing to export unprocessed

raw-materials for which we get low

value (about ten times less), which

practice, moreover, makes us to lose

jobs to the outsiders e.g. spinning,weaving, printing and tailoring

jobs as far as the cotton industry

is concerned; the exporting of raw-

materials is because of lack of

industrialization;

The services sector that is

underdeveloped e.g. the under-

utilized tourism potential; and

The underdeveloped agriculture.

There are other bottlenecks such as the

ideological disorientation already alluded

Judiciary, etc) and lack of democracy. We

have, therefore, stated our strategic goals


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which are prosperity and security; we have

outlined above; what remains now is to

see how we have progressed on each.

Peace and Unity in 500 years:

1. By tackling the ideologicaldisorientation, we have exposed

the bankruptcy of sectarianism of

religion and tribe as well as gender

chauvinism. This has enabled the

people of Uganda to be united for the

bottleneck number one has been

dealt with. We only need to sustain

this and not tolerate those who wantto cause a regression on this gain.

2. The unity of the people of Uganda has,

especially the Army and increasingly

the Police. These institutions have


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President Museveni enjoying different culturalgroups’ performances, friendly atmosphere


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been imbued with the NRM ideology

of patriotism, pan-Africanism and

socio-economic transformation. The

civil service and the civilian political

class are still lagging behind in these

respects.

However, with a more capable NRM

can, then, have a more capable,

Nevertheless, even as we stand today,

combining a patriotic, Pan-Africanist

army and a supportive population,

the weaknesses of the civil service andthe political class notwithstanding,

the NRM has been able to pacify the

the last 500 years.

Why do we say this? This is because

before colonialism, the tribal kings


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were busy, myopically, promoting

wars among us (Bunyoro, Buganda,

Nkore, Rwanda, Buhaya, Lango-

Bukiri, Gani-Acholi, etc). During

colonialism, the British managed

to, eventually, after very costly wars

(e.g. with Bunyoro), to pacify much

of Uganda except for Karamoja which

remained disturbed for all that time.

After Independence, the situation

became worse. There was total

breakdown security-wise, peace-wiseand constitution-wise, until the NRM

came on the scene and, by 2003, had

managed to usher in peace, security

and constitutionalism in the whole of

Uganda.

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Uganda is even able to contribute to

peace in the other fraternal African

etc.

23,972 bn:

3. On the issue of infrastructure, we,

initially, lost time because of having

a small budget of only Uganda

consequently, depend on the donors

for most of the infrastructure projects

water, etc. The donors contribution

tarmac road, in say, 15 years; one

electricity plant in 20 years etc.!!.

This was not serious. Fortunately, on

account of the correct policies of the

NRM, weaknesses of some elements

of the political class and the Civil


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of Uganda has now gone to Uganda

Prioritization:

With this more decent level of tax

collection, the NRM brought in the

correct principle of prioritizing among

priorities (kusosowaza, kukuratanisa,

okusimba omulaka, melakwong). On

my advice and strong insistence,

the NRM Parliamentary Caucus and

Cabinet, following the Conference of

(ii) Health, especially immunization;

(iii) Education, including the

– i.e. mass education as opposed

to elite education; (iv) the roads; (v)

electricity; and (vi) ICT. The concept

became: “spend something on each


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sector but spend decisively on the six

sectors”. In other words, we opposed

the wrong concept of “democratic

suffering” by all the sectors, of being

everywhere and ending up by being

nowhere. We opposed the concept

of “okumemeera” (okumansamansa,okumamirira, keto, scattering thinly)

resources everywhere equally.

Roads:

something everywhere but spend

decisively in some sectors”. As a

consequence of this, we boosted the


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the budget of Health from 510 billion


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The budget of Defence from 350 billion

shillings, etc., etc. Yet the budget

billion shillings

the Ministry of Gender, including

the money for the Elderly, the Youth

fund etc. is still 153 billion shillings;

the money for restocking and cattle

compensation is still 20 billion

we cannot do everything at a go.

Why did we start with the six sectors

was because the six impact everybody

and everything. Defence? Roads?

Health? Education? Electricity? ICT

backbone? Who is not affected by

these? The veteran is affected; the


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elderly is affected; the one who lost

cattle in the wars is affected; the

Youth; the Women; etc.; they are all

affected. Electricity, eventually, affects

everybody because it affects factories.

Factories mean jobs for the Youth,

which, then, can support the Elderly

and the Youth.

Wages:

The only item that could have waited

a little longer is the Wage Bill. Out

of the 12,000 billion shillings we are

collecting every year, the Wage Bill

an example, if the wage bill remained

we could have done more roads or

something else. The wages could goup later. Look at the wages in China

and India in the past years. Here


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CHINA

YEARWAGE

(CYN)

WAGE

(USD)

Wage %

IncreaseYEAR

WAGE

(CYN)

Wage

(USD)

Wage %

Increase

2015 9,014.24 127.68

2014 8,382.08 123.52 1.31

2013 7,614.88 12.11 121.92

2012 42452 6,792.32 106.88

2011 5,943.52 98.40

2010 5,237.76 12.00 92.16

2009 29229 4,676.64 92.00

24932 3,989.12 92.80

21001 3,360.16 93.44 -0.51

2,938.24 93.92

2005 2,564.00 14.14 94.08 5.00

2004 14040 2,246.40 13.03 89.60

2003 12422 1,987.52 89.76 -2.43

2002

1,739,20 0.00

92.00 -0.352001 1,739.20 92.32

2000 1,499.36 93.92

1999 1,335.36 11.59 93.28 -1.19

1,196.64 590 94.40

1,035.20 4.19 93.76

993.60 12.91 92.16 4.54

1995 5500 880.00 21.20 551 88.16

1994 726.08 510 81.60 -0.20

1993 539.36 24.35 511 81.76 -0.20

1992 433.76 1959 512 81.92

1991 2340 374.40 9.35 85.76 -14.10

1990 2140 342.40 10.59 99.84

1935 309.60 96.16 14.04

279.52 1955 84.32 1.93

1459 233.44 1954 82.72 4.44

1329 212.64 1953 495 79.20 11.24

183.68 1952 445 71.20

155.84

132.16 3.51


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MINIMUM WAGE PER MONTH 1991-

2015

Year Minimum Wage in USD per Month

1. 1991 24

2. 1992 21

3. 1993 19

4. 1994 19

5. 1995 17 30

27

28

9. 1999 28

10. 2000 29

11. 2001 28

12. 2002 31

13. 2003 33

14. 2004 45

15. 2005 43

45

54

4819. 2009 65

20. 2010 67

21. 2011 68

22. 2012 63

23. 2013 125

24. 2014 126

25. 2015 168


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“Garya embibo gashyekyera ekiteme” .

The teeth of the unwise eat the seeds

that had been planned for planting and,

later, helplessly smile at the garden, with

nothing to plant there. It is wrong to eat

the seeds. We should have the patience

and the forbearance to suffer hunger butsave the seeds for planting and only eat

the harvest (amagyesha , amakungula,

okugesa, Lugbara-okuzu, Luo-kac ). On

account of prioritization, we are delivering

on the infrastructure and, therefore,

removing that bottleneck. By building

Karuma, Isimba and a number of small

mini-hydros, our generation capacity

Ayago, our generation capacity will go to


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Hydro –electric dam construction underway.

Bujagali Power dam has boosted electricity production


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We are continuing to study as to how

we can generate more electricity than

that in the next 20 years. Even the

for a modern economy. You only need

to compare with other developed or

developing economies to gauge what level

of electricity generation is necessary for

Uganda. The UK currently generates

ago, were generating 44,000 mgws.

Yet they were having power shortages.Instructions have, therefore, already

been given to the Ministry of Energy to

develop all-round capacity that is able to

hydro, solar, geo-thermals and nuclear.We already have a Nuclear Energy unit

in the Ministry of Energy with scientists

researched statements while attending

African Conferences, talking about the

40,000 mgws potential of Ethiopia,

100,000 mgws potential of Congo, etc. All


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these are too small for modern economies.

people, generates 1,030,000 mgws.

Therefore, a potential of 300,000 mgws or

thereabout on all the African rivers is not

something to harp on. It is too little. We

must look at other sources.

As for the roads, by combining our own

funds and some limited funds from

outside, I am in a happy situation to

inform the Ugandans that all the major

years or less. These are:


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Kampala-Masaka; Tororo-Mbale-Soroti;

Jinja-Kamuli; Hoima-Kaisotonya; Ishaka-

Kagamba; Moroto-Nakapiripirit; Mpigi-

Kanoni; Kanoni-Sembabule-Villa-Maria;

Musita-Lumino-Busia; Olwiyo-Gulu; Gulu-

Acholibur; Acholibur-Musingo; Mukono-

Kayunga-Njeru; Mukono-Kyetume-Katosi;

Mubende-Kakumiro-Kagadi-Ndaiga;

Mbarara-Kikagate; Tirinyi-Pallisa-Kumi;

Hoima-Kigoroobya-Biiso-Wanseko; Masindi

Port-Apac-Lira-Kitgum; Kapchorwa-Bukwo-

Suam; Mbale-Maghale-Lwakhakha;Rukungiri-Kihihi-Ishasha; Atiak-Moyo;

Moroto-Kotido-Kaabong; etc., etc.


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already completed, some are on-going

and others will be commenced on later.

However, all these major roads are funded,

either by the Government of Uganda or

by outside sources. It is unprecedented

in the history of Uganda to have so many

roads being worked on at the same time

and most of them being funded by the

when roads like Masaka-Kabaale,

Laropi Ferry – Adjumani


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Mbarara-Fort Portal or Kampala-Gulu

were tarmacked, our Government then,

used loans from the World Bank. The

present capacity is unprecedented and a

happy development.

President Yoweri Museveni with regional headsof State launching the Standard Gauge Railway

Construction


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With the railway, we are going to build

soft loan from China or, later, using our

oil money. The modernised railway will

apart from traversing East to West and

backbone has been done with a loan from

China.

Health:

4. On the side of human resource

development, we have gone far.

The immunization has stopped our

children from dying young. The

infant mortality rate is now 54 per

That is why the population has gone

million people by 2015. Much better

health could have been achieved

if only the concerned authorities


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(Health, Local Government, etc.)

paid attention to hygiene, nutrition,

behaviour change, anti-malaria and

life-style.

The National Immunisation programme has stoppedour children from dying young.


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President wants health authorities to pay moreattention to hygiene, nutrition and lifestyle


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Education:

On the side of education, phenomenal

achievements have been realized.

About 11 million Ugandans are now

in schools – primary, secondary,

tertiary and university. The literacy

to have a Government secondary

school in all the 1,500 sub-counties

of Uganda.

Students under the USE programme


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President Museveni Commissions new building ofMasaka S.S

President Museveni Commissions new buildings atMary Hill High School, Mbarara


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However, literacy and numeracy

must be accompanied by technical

skills. We are, therefore, going

to build a technical school per

constituency in addition to some

professional colleges at national and

regional levels. The professionalcolleges are like the ones for Nursing

and Midwifery, for Petroleum and

Gas, etc. Otherwise, for technical

and ICT skills, we are going to have

one per constituency. We had

intended to build one of these per

sub-county.

However, it turned out to be veryexpensive; hence, the need to scale

down to the constituency level.

These technical and professional

skills of our youth will make them

either more employable or, even

better, turn them into job-creators

rather than job-seekers.


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5. Right from the resistance days,

th century

philosophy of the physiocrats in

France that all value came from

agriculture had long been disproved

by the classical economists, such

that without the industrialization of

our country, the future was bleak if

Uganda has been losing money and

jobs to the outside countries such as

UK in the past and to China today.

We have, in the past, explained to

the Ugandans that cotton has gotsix job levels: growing the cotton,

ginning the cotton (removing the

seeds), spinning the cotton, weaving

the yarn into fabric, printing the

colours into the fabric and tailoring

the fabric into garments.


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Fine Spinners workers in Bugolobi adding value toour cotton


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A kilogramme of ginned cotton sells

one kilo of lint cotton (when seeds

have been removed), would sell at

only lint cotton (i.e. after ginning),

we are losing the spinning jobs, the

weaving jobs, the printing jobs and

the tailoring jobs, apart from getting

Value addition on cotton creates jobs


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true of cotton is true of coffee, oil

seeds, copper, gold, etc. This is the

modern slavery that must be ended.

However, you could not do value

addition without solving the issue of

infrastructure. With no electricity or

very expensive electricity, how will

high transport costs, how will you be

competitive in both the internal and

export markets?

By, correctly, prioritisinginfrastructure, we are now able to

support our manufacturers – local or

foreign sourced. I am glad the power

the one from Bujagali has been

is because the developers used

expensive loans to build the dam. We

shall have to sort it out. Therefore,

by removing the bottleneck of under


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developed infrastructure, we are also

removing the bottleneck of lack of

industrialization.

Services:

infrastructure, we have also laid

the basis for the developing of our

huge services sector. Our huge

and incomparable tourism sector,

now attracts 1.4 million visitors per

annum. I am told that there has been

a slow-down of tourists because of the

where the Ebola outbreak in West

Africa scared tourists from coming to

Africa. Our tourist authorities should

inform all and sundry that Uganda

is a World Leader in combating

Ebola. We have promptly defeated


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Murchison Falls

Snow on the Rwenzori Mountains


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h

s

Bwindi


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Ebola on three occasions (in Gulu,

Bundibugyo and Kibaale) and have

also defeated the outbreaks of the

related Marburg on 3 occasions (in

Ibanda-Kampala, 2014 - Kampala).

We have a robust anti-terrorism

capacity. These factors should be

put out clearly by those concerned.

The other services such as Banking,

Insurance, the Professional services,

etc., are developing well. Indeed,the sector is growing at the rate of

5.3% per annum. The only weakness

we have there is advocacy. On the

side of tourism and conferences,

the only other bottleneck we had inthe past was the shortage of hotel

rooms (beds). With the support of

Government, the private sector, in

the Kampala-Entebbe sector alone,


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of market fragmentation caused

by colonialism, with the support of

our brothers and sisters in the EAC

a market of 150 millions in the EAC

producers of goods and services,

therefore, have no excuse of not

having a market.

The Diary Sector is growing rapidly


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Indeed, the surplus of our milk

production (2 billion litres while

the consumption in Uganda is

million tonnes while consumption

in Uganda is only 1 million tonnes),is being absorbed in the region. By

creating the regional market, we are

also making it easier to negotiate

for market access to the global

etc. Therefore, we can say that the

NRM goal of market integration for

Value addition on milk


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prosperity has been achieved. What

is not yet achieved is the political

in order to guard our sovereignty

against any and all imperialists.

Uganda, even when it becomes

a First World country, cannot

guarantee her sovereignty alone

for aggressors who will shoot at

their victims from space, completelyout of reach of the counter-blows

of the victims. The victims will be

exterminated as if they are mere

ants. It is unacceptable that the

African leaders of today should

allow this weakness to persist given

our sad experiences of the last 500

has been, working with our elders,sisters and brothers in East Africa,

for the Political Federation of East

Africa. We have been moving steadily


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on that crucial and decisive target

for the survival of our people as free

human beings over the ages.

Commercialization of Agriculture:

many of the families in agriculture

have been living in poverty,

just on account of ignorance,

mainly, complicated by problems

of poor leadership and someparasite arrangements in some

parts of the country. As I have

repeatedly told you, to get wealth

(obugagga, obugaiga, Teso-abar,

Lugbara-lonyi, Luo-lonyo ) through

agriculture, needs three steps:

move from subsistence agriculture

to commercial agriculture with

food security; carryout comparativeenterprises selection guided by the

return per acre per annum given


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the smallness of the family land

holdings i.e. going into commercial

agriculture with ekibaro, aimar,

;

and ending the wrong practice of

land fragmentation on inheritance

(obusika, oburagwa, Teso-imisiki,

Luo-lako, Lugbara-okusuza ). These

three (3) steps, where they have been

observed, have already caused good

results in the country. I have had

occasion to give detailed explanationof this strategy. Through the

Wealth Creation (OWC), many

families have responded very well.

The only problem now is inadequate

seedlings and breeding stock because

we are still devoting little money to

this effort on account of our strategy

of prioritization (Okusosowaza,Okukuratanisa, Lugbara-Otitakulu-

kulu) as already described. To

repeat for the NRM members, just for


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emphasis, we are spending Uganda

shillings 3,000 billions on the roads;

1,300 billions on health; 2,300

on energy and mineral development;

203 billion shillings. Now that we

have realized the magnitude of the

demand, we shall, in future, upscale

the expenditure on this item. We

could not do it this year because ofthe elections, the visit of His Holiness

we successfully hosted and other

temporary factors. However, in the

addressed. I am most excited that

the population has woken up to this

need of moving from subsistence to

commercial farming.


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On the issue of land fragmentation,I, again, advise Ugandans to stop

dividing the land and the wealth as a

consequence of inheritance and only

divide the net income from the land

and the wealth (after removing costs)

Abasika,

abahunguzi, okakare, olewange ). That

will preserve what the parents built up

and also give share to the inheritors,but in a healthy way. I only need to

of the swamps for agriculture needs

Land fragmentation


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to stop. The swamps are not only

necessary for the environment but

also for agriculture itself. As we wake

up to the importance of commercial

agriculture, we shall discover the need

for irrigation. Where will the water

for irrigation come from if we have

dried the swamps? This is what we

discovered in Kabale with the apple

grower in Rukiga County. There is

a very good swamp grass known as

ebigugu

other dialects of Uganda it is known

as ekisalu, gugu, Lusamya-ebidutu,

Lugbara-omii, Teso-asisinit, Luo-togo .

It used to be good for providing thatch(Okushakaara, okusereka , Lugbara-

jodritiza, Teso-aiswap, Luo-rumo-

ot) for the traditional houses and

mulching (Okwarira, Teso-aiswap-

alupok) in gardens and banana

plantations.


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When you dry the swamps, thebigugu disappear. Therefore, in the Ruharo

Model Parish, we were confronted

with the need to hire pick-ups so as

to import the bigugu from 30 miles

away (Kushaka, kusaka, yenyo)

because the local, free and ever

renewable ones had been destroyed.


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Fish farming is much, much more

agriculture and yet we can, then,

preserve the swamp, the water, the

bigugu , etc.

Wetlands:

The swamps can be used

economically by the people that are

near them but in an eco-friendly

can be done on the periphery of the

swamps (emyegyego, kungyegoyego ,Teso-eikor, Luo-idog-nota) and not in

the swamps themselves.


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Rain:

Drying swamps is more dangerous

in an even more fundamental way,

the reducing of our rain. Karamoja

while West Nile is also on latitude

Nile get 55.1 inches of rain a year

and Karamoja gets only 31.5 inches

of rain in a year? The answer is the

forests in Congo. Our scientists are

pointing out that as much as 40% of

our rain comes from the local swamps

through transpiration (those swamp

grasses sucking the water, throwingit in the atmosphere and the water,

then, comes back as rain). Then, the

almost commit suicide in this way

through the undermining of our

future by destroying these swamps.


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I always tend to concentrate on the

group of Ugandan farmers that are

still in subsistence farming because,as

Jesus said, the NRM came for the

“sick” (the ones in need). In the Book

of Mathew 9:12, it says: “When Jesus

heard this, he said “Healthy people

The healthy do not need a doctor. It is

came from the 2001 Census. The

recent census has not yet provided

the update. Nevertheless, we need

to give word about the commercial

farmers that are part of the 32% that

the 2001 census found in the money

economy.


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Irrigation:

Irrigation helps boost production

Drip irrigation can improve farm yields


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These, generally, know what to do. As

already pointed out, with time, they

will be assisted to shift to irrigation

agriculture rather than just being in

rain-fed agriculture.

We shall also introduce the more

use of factory-made fertilizers (NPK)

to replenish the soil. Value addition

is very crucial as already pointed out

under industrialization. Through

research, we have already developedimproved seeds and breeding stock.

Rolling our new vaccines for Poultry


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We have improved seeds for coffee,

maize, cotton, beans, millet, etc.

as well as dairy cattle, goats, pigs,

poultry, etc. Parliament should

expedite the legislation on bio-

technology so that we use that

potential to protect crops fromdrought, from diseases, etc, as well

as imparting certain qualities such

as quick-maturing, etc. etc.


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Corruption:

9. The strategic bottleneck of interfering

with the private sector was resolved

sector to operate, reinforced it by

privatizing Government companies

and liberalizing marketing, not to

forget the return of Asian properties.

The only impediment to the private

sector operations is corruption by

course, curable by getting the Musisis

and Kaginas who are increasingly

becoming available.

10. Lack of democracy used to be astrategic bottleneck before the NRM

time. However, this bottleneck was

resolved even when we were still in the

Luwero Triangle. The only distortion

now is the use of money. This is avalueless and cynical distortion.

What will a kilo of sugar, given once


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NRM programmes are correct and

good. The electorate needs to get

good, honest, corruption-free leadersthat bring these programmes nearer

to them rather than liars who give

We have, therefore, addressed the

three questions:

(a) What are the strategic goals

of Uganda as distilled by the

NRM?

(b) What are the strategic

obstacles?

(c) How far have we gone inremoving the obstacles and

achieving the goals?

Above, I have outlined what has

been done. What, then, remainsundone? The major things that

remain undone or not done enough

are: industrialization; job-creation


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for the youth; skilling the youth; safe

water for drinking and irrigation for

agriculture; total commercializationof agriculture and ending land

fragmentation; the use of fertilizers

in agriculture; institutional houses

for teachers, soldiers and health

workers; compensation for cattle

for veterans; good pay for scientists;

and good pay for other public

servants.

11. With increased supply of affordable

electricity, we are on the verge

of large-scale industrialization,

starting with value addition to all ouragricultural products and minerals.

Our people are now educated

and can run manufacturing

enterprises. They just lack capital

money. The loans of the Banks areexpensive. They cannot support

manufacturing. The bank loans are

only used by traders who continue


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to turn our country into a market

for imports from outside and drain

our foreign exchange. It is only theGovernment, directly or indirectly,

that can provide this capital. We

in the UDB for lending to processors

(involved in value addition) and 500

billion shillings in the budget of this

In our characteristic way, having,

in the past years, put emphasis on

the six sectors (road, electricity,

immunization, education, defence

and ICT backbone), in the coming

years, we shall add new sectors for

emphasis, including expanding theinnovation fund. With the expanded

Innovation Fund, we shall support

as many of our groups, mainly

youth or women, to process as much

of our agricultural products as isnecessary, basing themselves as

near the raw-materials sources as

possible.


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Uganda needs to add value to its maize production


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200,000 tonnes per annum. It is

now 4 million tonnes. Much of this

maize needs to be processed into

into animal feeds (for chicken, pigs,

was 200 million litres per annum.

It is now 2 billion litres per annum.

There is some processing capacity

but we need more processors. The

same is true of oil seeds (sim-sim,groundnuts, cotton-seeds, etc), beef,

leather, horns of cattle, bananas,

fruits, honey, etc. etc. These mini-

industries will be based at the sub-

counties if there is electricity nearby.We have already supported some of

the groups. It does not cost much.

processor. Meanwhile, we need to

continue attracting the big factories

for coffee, textiles, minerals, etc.


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Working with the private sector, we

are going to set-up an integrated

steel factory using the gas of Lake

Albert or gas imported from brother

Tanzania and the high quality iron-ore of Muko and Butogota, not to

forget the magnetite deposits at

started of developing the phosphates

and iron-ore of the latter in order to

produce fertilizers, steel, sulphuric-

acid and rare earth.

With Electricity production, industries will be


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Najeera Youth:

Industrialization will not only be based

on agricultural products or minerals. It

will also be based on human skills in the

form of light and heavy engineering (e.g.

manufacturing spare parts of automobiles

and, eventually, manufacturing heavy

duty equipment). Our scientists have

already started with Kiira electric car

as well as pick-ups and other vehicles.

They are just awaiting funding from the

Innovation Fund. At the small artisanalscale, I used the Najeera youth group to

show what can be done in the cities for

the youth. Those youths were fabricating

metallic doors. They only needed a metal

cutting machine and a metal bendingmachine.

One group had 30 youths in it and there are

common user facilities can be shared by

machines, lower their costs of production

(initial cost of production was:


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Shs. 30,000/- for machine cutting in Katwe,

transport Shs. 30,000/-, waiting time Shs.

10,000/- totalling Shs. 70,000/-). The cost

told the Hon. Caroline Okao to map out all

such groups in the Kampala area so as to

roll out support for them in time, starting

with some and adding others as time goes

on. The NRM leaders should be active on

this issue. The youth in the towns should

not be frustrated unnecessarily. The same

can be done for carpenters, motor vehiclemechanics, brick-layers, hair dressers,

tailors, etc.

Najeera Youth at their Metal Fabrication workshop


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Lutuungu Technical School:

started. We are intensifying the

effort by the plan to build a technical

school in each constituency. We

and 42 vocational schools. Here,I would like to use my example of

the vocational school I built for the

youth at Lutuungu (Lutunku as

some people call it) near my village,

graduated from there in the last 12

years. They have graduated with

skills of: carpentry and joinery,

electrical installation, motor vehiclemechanic, tailoring and cutting

garments, home economics and

catering, brick laying and concrete

practice, hair dressing and dairy

production. Recently, I gave each

graduate free tools as start-up

capital as follows:


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Skills Tools provided

Carpentry and Joinery Tool box andaccessories

Electrical Installation Tool box andaccessories

Motor vehiclemechanic

Tool box andaccessories

Tailoring and CuttingGarments

Home Economics andCatering

Gas cooker, cylinderand accessories

Block-laying and

Concrete Practice

Tool box and

accessories

Hair dressingDrier, barbingmachine andgenerator

Diary production Cow

1 million to buy consumables. I

directed them to add the skills of

ceramics, weaving, knitting and


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per person. This can be done all

over. These are the lower end

worked out for the more advanced

skills such as petroleum and gas or

marine courses (boat drivers, ferrytechnicians, water navigators, etc).

13. As far as safe-water for drinking and

as far as irrigation is concerned, the

present situation is as here below:

to cover the other 23% for the urbanand 35% for the rural population. I

have directed the Ministry of Water

to simplify the formula for providing

the drinking water to the people.

Initially, it should be one borehole

including the town ones. We already


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have 105,000 boreholes. This means

that we already have more boreholes

than the villages but the bore-holes

are not fairly distributed. Otherwise,

with this number of boreholes, all

villages should be covered by now.

After ensuring one borehole pervillage, we should, then, aim at two

boreholes per village and, then, three.

This will not include the small towns

and trading centres that have got

piped water. The towns and trading

centres with piped water are 1,100

million people. By this systematic

method, we are going to covereverybody in Uganda by supplying

them with safe-water in the next 10

years.

Uganda, however, must also

move from rain-fed agriculture to

irrigation agriculture. We already


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have irrigated schemes such as

Mobuku, Doho, Olweny and Agoro.

We shall, in future, develop more of

such schemes at the same time as

we develop and encourage micro-

irrigation on each farm using solar

energy-water pumps. Makerere isalready instructed to develop such

a pump; we are also working with

other external groups to solve that

problem. Meanwhile, communal

and personal water dams are being

developed. These will be important

when it comes to micro-irrigation.

Fertilizers:14. The use of fertilizers in Uganda is

very low. The use of fertilizers in the

EU, it is 150 kgs per ha; in India it

kgs per ha; in Latin America (Brazil),


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Uganda, it is 2.5 kgs per ha. Yet, we

have these huge production levels.

10 million tonnes of bananas, 4

million bags of coffee and going up,

4 million tonnes of maize, 2 billion

litres of milk even when we do not

use fertilizers for pasture, etc. etc.

How much more shall we achieve

if fertilizers, NPK, are used? The

sugarcane growers use fertilizers.

We shall help the tea growers to use

years. Fortunately, we are building

our own fertilizer industry for

Our oil and gas in Mwitanzigye

will give us the Nitrogen. We only

need to get the potassium from

somewhere to complete the circle

of NPK (Nitrogen, phosphorous

and potassium). Where fertilizers


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and water (irrigation) are used,

production goes up dramatically.

At the Presidential Initiative farm at

Nyaruzinga, banana production has

jumped from 5 tonnes per hectare to

53 tonnes per hectare.

The Presidential Initiative has boosted the banana production


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15. As I have been saying repeatedly, the

continued existence of subsistence

farming in Uganda is the source of

poverty in the rural areas. Between

the areas in North Ankole as far

as commercialization of milk wasconcerned, building on the earlier

work we had done as students in

our peasantry could be prosperous

through commercializing small scale

agriculture. Hence, the need for the

three steps already referred to: go

A boost from the Presidential Initiative on BananaProduction


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from subsistence to food security and

commercialization of agriculture; do

so with ekibaro, cura, otita, aimar,

land fragmentation on inheritance.

opposed to elite education, we have

increased classrooms in permanent

brand new secondary schools; we

have expanded University Education

(Makerere) to 32, both governmentand private universities today; and

we are expanding technical and

vocational training. However, we

have a huge backlog of institutional

policy of selling institutional houses


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and giving public servants what

adopted by us some years ago. That

may be suitable for the main-stream

public service. However, for the

teaching service, the health workers,

the army, the police and the prisons,it is clear that institutional housing

is very crucial. The workers stay

near their work places and there is,

therefore, no time lost in commuting

from residence to work. This is

something that is still pending and

will be tackled in our usual Kiyekera

(Kihekyera , guerrilla) way of handling

problems in phases.

of salaries for public servants,

advocated for “democratic suffering”

should be low for everybody. I have

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it undermines performance. Take

for example, the army. As the

UPDF has matured, we have trained

pilots for air lines where a pilot is

per month, I hear. It is, therefore,

not reasonable to insist that, in the

spirit of “democratic suffering”, the

pilots of the air-force must be paid

the same as all the other soldiers.

Yet these pilots are not that many.

Paying them something comparable

to what they would get in civilian life(adjusted to the work environment

in the army) would not impose a

heavy burden on the country. Other

than envy (nyeko) and ego, there

is no rational reason to force these

specialists to be remunerated below

the market price of their labour in


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the wider society. What is true of the

doctors, engineers, science teachers,

etc.

all the Ugandan armies: KAR, UA,UNLA and NRA/UPDF. Originally,

reduced to 540 billion shillings.

paying the money for the veterans?

It is because we do not have onlythe issue of veterans to deal with. As

already pointed out, for the reasons

mentioned above, we started with

the roads, immunization, defence,

education, electricity and ICT. We

put, for each of these sectors, money

in excess of 2,000 billion shillings


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per year. This is much more than

what the veterans need. However,

by handling these sectors, you are

creating a higher base for everybody

could not handle, at the same level,

all the sectors at one go, we had tostart with some and the others will

follow later.

Security and Restocking:

19. Compensation follows the same

have provided for 9.5 billion

shillings. Yet the total requirement

compensation may not be accurate

because it is not the Government

that ate these cattle. It was mainly

the rebels and the cattle rustlers.

The words used, however, are not

crucial. What is crucial is that these

areas are restocked with cattle. It


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will, indeed, be done in the same

systematic manner as we have done

with the roads, electricity, defence,

etc. Can anybody dispute the fact

we have dealt with restocking Teso,

Karamoja? What would have been

the point of restocking these areas

only for the re-introduced cattle to

be raided the following week? The

prioritization we did assures that

whatever cow that is re-introduced,

will not be lost again. That is the

correct way of handling that issue.

The same logic is applicable in thematter of the akasiimo for the Luwero

civilian veterans. Whoever has not

yet received his kasiimo, will receive

it in time because the foundation

economy, the latter propelled by

more electricity and better roads.


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20. While we are struggling with the

problem of land fragmentation by

the peasants in much of Uganda,

in Buganda, starting with 1920,

the progressive forces have been

struggling against the wicked mailo-

land system that the British hadused to transform our people in

Buganda as well as a few portions

of Ankole, Kibaale and Tooro into

serfs who had to pay rent in kind

protect the bibanja (tenants) owners.

The NRM has strengthened this

legislation. However, the landlords,taking advantage of the ignorance

of the tenants and, sometimes,

colluding with the elements in the

judiciary, still evict our people.

idea of suspending land sales in

Buganda for a period of time to


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study the situation better. When

we are not pre-occupied with the

present election activities, we shall

study this idea better. What is clear,

however, is that when we budget

in the manner described above, in

the coming years, we can buy outthe landlords and give land to the

people. I have already experimented

this with the Royal families of Ankole

and Tooro in the areas of Ishaka,

Kakigane and Isingiro. In Buganda,

households have been settled on the

land liberated from a landlord bypaying him off.

21. Finally, there will be the question

of the better pay for the rest of the

public service, starting with the

soldiers and the teachers. Actually,

that time is at hand. Why? This is


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because when we start earning from

our oil and gas, that money will be

used for the infrastructure needs that

will still be unmet by that time. The

huge amount we are now deploying

on infrastructure as shown above,

will be used for these other sectors,wages included, for which we are

currently under-budgeting.

Summary:

Therefore, in conclusion, let us go back to

our original questions: “What are the strategic goals of

Uganda and Africa as seen by theNRM over the years?”

What are the strategic obstaclesthat impeded the realization of thosegoals?

Which obstacles have we removedand which of them remain un- tackled at all?

To recapitulate, we should repeat that

our strategic goals are: prosperity and


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security for the Ugandan people and

their African brothers and sisters. We

have seen and we have often pointed out

what the strategic obstacles (bottlenecks)

have been. Rather than enumerating the

obstacles again, let us point out those

that have been addressed and those thathave not been addressed or not addressed

have addressed decisively the following

bottlenecks or sectors:

(i) Defence and ensuring peace.

(ii) Immunization; the heath of the

population would be much better

if hygiene, nutrition, behaviour

change and anti-malaria measures

were seriously taken.

(iii) General education to raise the level

of literacy and numeracy.

will be tarmacked, either using


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Government money or money from

partners abroad. The last road that

lacked funding was Rwenkunyu-Masindi Port-Apac-Lira-Puranga-

Acholibar. It will be funded by the

Islamic Development Bank loan.

(v) Electricity generation has grown

4,300 megawatts by the time the

dams of Karuma, Isimba, Ayago and

the small mini-hydros are ready;

some of the work is on-going while

the other one is planned for.

(vi) Using the Chinese loan, we have

built the ICT backbone and, thereby,

liberated the Ugandans from the

need to depend on the satellites for

telephoning and data transmissionwhich was very expensive.

(vii) The telecommunications has

undergone a fundamental revolution

being awed by an Iraqi Minister


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sounded so huge compared to what

we had. We now have much more

(viii) The service sector has been growing

at the rate of 5.3% per annum.

billion. Everything to encourage

Tourism is in place: security,infrastructure (roads) and the hotel

40,000 beds, today, in the whole of

Uganda. The only lacking element

is promotion. Everything else is inplace. The other services are also

our children if it is emphasized.

This is BPO (Business Processes

Outsourcing). The ICT backboneis in place and the undersea cable

is in place. The cost has come

per megabit per second per month.

It can, however, go lower below

month, if we cut out middlemen and

activate the alternative route to the


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undersea cables through Mutukula

via Tanzania to the Port of Dar-es-

(ix) The railway is going to be

reconstructed and up-graded to

Chinese loan. If the Chinese loan

does not materialize, we shall useour oil money to build it.

(x) The issue of ending the fragmentation

of the African market so as to absorb

what our wealth creators (farmers,manufacturers, service providers,

etc) produce, has moved very well.

Working with our partners in East,

had two conferences in Uganda, in June 2004 and November 2012.

This is a market of 400 million

people. Working with Mzee Moi

and Mzee Mwinyi in November

1999, we revived the market of

East African Community (the EAC),

with a population of 150 million

people. The difference of EAC with


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Political Federation of East Africa,

which we are ever working on. Both

the economic integration and thepolitical integration are moving well.

(xi) With the industrialization, we are

set for takeoff now that we have

electricity and the roads. The railway

will further boost industrialization.Nevertheless, we have already covered

processing, steel bars, cement, sugar

processing, some maize milling, some

leather tanning, new textile factories,battery manufacture, plastics,

some medicine manufacture, etc.

We are about to add the processing

of coffee (from the garden to the

sulphuric acid. We are remainingto deal with the vertical integration

of steel for Muko and Butogota, beef

processing (already started), more

cement (Karamoja), fruit processing,

copper processing to 99% at Kilembe,

more milling of maize and livestock

feeds, more textiles, assembling and

manufacture of automobiles, etc. etc.


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MM steel factory in Jinja

Steel Rolling Mills


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Value addition – wine made out of fruits


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(xii) On the commercialization of

agriculture, the movement is on.

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I know that the Ugandans are awake

because of the demand for the

planting and breeding materials. seedlings of tea, 2.5 million of orange

the demand is growing. This is very

good. In our usual prioritization

we are going to spend more on theseedlings and the breeding stock.

The movement on this front is on.

of the people in the urban areas

access to safe water. We are, this

shillings on water alone. To cover

for irrigation we need to budget for

the mega irrigation projects around

the low lands of the Elgon and the

Rwenzori mountains, multiplying

the Mobukus and the Dohos, as well


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as planning for micro-irrigation on

each farm using solar-powered water

pumps that are being developed. Thediesel water pumps are 50% more

expensive than the solar energy

ones. It is in the area of irrigation

that we have not yet done much

beyond repairing Mobuku and Doho

and developing Olweny and Agoro.

started. As already pointed out, there

vocational schools. We are aiming ata technical school per constituency.

(xv) It is in the area of using fertilizers for

the general public that little has been

done. It needs a plan and budget

as well as sensitization because itis a new culture for Uganda. We

have been depending on the natural

fertility of the land and the use of

livestock manure (cow-dung, etc).

The latter solves the problem of the

structure of the soil but may not

replenish the nutrients (nitrogen,

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(xvi) The increase of the pay for the

scientists has been started but more

must be done. The whole of the NRMleadership needs to be convinced

about this so that we wholeheartedly,

all of us, work for this.

(xvii) All the efforts I have enumerated: better

infrastructure, industrialization,commercialization of agriculture, the

development of ICT, modernization

of the services’ sector, skilling of the

youth, will result in many, many jobs

the issue of job-creation.

(xviii) That leaves on our list of tasks

the issues of: institutional houses

for the soldiers, the police, the

health workers and the teachers;the remaining cattle compensation;

pensions for the veterans; and

akasiimo for the civilian veterans;

improved pay for the other public

servants starting with the soldiers

and the teachers; and the issue of

bibanja owners in Buganda. All

these will be addressed as pointed

out above.


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Above, I have talked about ideology,

strategy, politics (applied ideology) plans

and programmes. As I conclude, let me issues. I have already lambasted the use

of money to kuhuzya (deceptively and

without any value diverting their attention)

our citizens in order to get their votes but

without solving their soluble problems(kubakyenuura ).

In the Book of Mathew Chap: 23:23; it

says: “They left undone what they ought

to have done and did that they ought

not to have done and there is no truth

in them” (Baleka bye basanidde okukola,

nebakola byebatasanidde kukola,

namazima tegali mubo). We should

not kuhuzya (kugumaaza ) people, we

should kubakyenuura (solve their soluble

problems or show the plan to solve them

in future) These problems have been

should explain all this to the people

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at rallies will not help people understand

the ideology, the strategy, the policies

or the plans. Explaining, sensitization

(okushobororera, okunyonyola

what is needed. It should not be long

explanations. The okunyonyola should be

short and simple. We should use rallies,

radios, seminars, etc., to do this. Where

should, the explaining be done? It should

be on the radios, the televisions, in the

villages, in the homes, in the schools, and

in the work places. The internet, the short

should also be used.

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Apart from explaining, the leaders

should monitor, inspect and ensure the

implementation of the programmes for

kukyenuura (solving people’s problems).

The leaders could also lead by example.

If it is, for instance, farming, the leaders

themselves should be the lead farmers. If

the example.

Finally, we need to also address the

supported this mighty organisation that

has brought peace to your country. The

I have been fundraising for the Party.


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fundraising for the Party. The Ugandan

society has now so developed that the

middle class can now, very easily and

without any pain, support this Party, only

to be joined by the peasants, later when,through wealth creation, they all start

were about 150 Bank account holders.

Assuming 5 million were NRM supporters

or sympathizers and each made a onetime

thousand shillings), the Party would raise

the NRM House and execute the present

electoral exercise from beginning to end.

Let us, therefore, send this little money to

the NRM account number 1100039293

(Shs Account) and 1100069362 (Dollar

Account) in the Housing Finance Bank.


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Long Live the NRM

Long Live Uganda

Long Live the East African Federation

Long Live the Common Market of Africa

Documents

Museveni's speech to NRM at Kololo