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 that
shaped 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;

 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

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 is
educated 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 grass
that 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.)

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 the
economy, 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 my
guidelines 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

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. Get
moving 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,

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 not
to 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

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 (carassembly, 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,

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 there
but 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.

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 the

correct 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 Government
guarantees and they just need licensing or land.

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 inflation
rate 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, for
harrowing, 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

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

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 should
not 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 scientific

exploration 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.

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, start
considering 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 one
continuous 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, the
Kampala 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

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 Mafabi
and 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 had
agreed 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 should
remind 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 last
elections 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

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. If
Education 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

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 the
money 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 SubCounties 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 no
Government 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 be
manned 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

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 lowloader. The Municipalities will also get their share. Some of this
equipment will enable the Government agencies to tarmac some of the
roads 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

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, at
least, 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 to
provide 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 soldiers
children. 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

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 should
conclude 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 be
engaged 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

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 to
get 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 the

priorities 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

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 his
illiterate 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