Museveni's Speech To NRM at Kololo

NRM DELEGATES CONFERENCE 2015
Address by the Chairman

General (RTD) Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
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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
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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 the
unavoidable 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-akuanziza). Over the years, we have correctly
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targets and the blockages that obstruct

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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 out
at 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 the
strategic 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
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 realization
of our strategic goals.
Prosperity and Security:
The strategic goals of the Uganda people
and their African brothers and sisters
should be: prosperity and strategic
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of prosperity, we are talking of prosperity
through 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.
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more raw-materials from agriculture,
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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 PanAfricanism.
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 to
the 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
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the natural resources? As to the question
of interests versus sub-identity, the NRM
discovered and emphatically stated that
the peoples interests were more primary
and important than the issue of the sub6

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.
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the world, have got plenty of the human
resource and scarcity of the natural
resources. Examples: China, Japan,
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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
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them. Political integration, aiming at the
Political Federation of East Africa, aims
at curing another problem that we shall
shortly address.
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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
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our brothers and sisters, working on the
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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 wealth
of 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,
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China, Russia, India, Brazil, EU, etc.,
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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 laid
out, Africa will undergo fundamental
socio-economic
transformation.
The
African countries, including Uganda,
will individually, become First World
countries. Uganda will become a middleincome 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
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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

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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
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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
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or the future? The answer is clearly:
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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
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Germanys ally, by attacking the United
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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 is
crucial. 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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moving towards a middle-class and skilled
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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 is
improved 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
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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 rawmaterials is because of lack of
industrialization;

The
services
sector
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underdeveloped e.g. the underutilized tourism potential; and

The underdeveloped agriculture.
There are other bottlenecks such as the
ideological disorientation already alluded
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Judiciary, etc) and lack of democracy. We
have, therefore, stated our strategic goals
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which are prosperity and security; we have

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outlined above; what remains now is to
see how we have progressed on each.
Peace and Unity in 500 years:
1. By
tackling
the
ideological
disorientation, 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
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bottleneck number one has been
dealt with. We only need to sustain
this and not tolerate those who want
to cause a regression on this gain.
2. The unity of the people of Uganda has,
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especially the Army and increasingly
the Police. These institutions have
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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.
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Nevertheless, even as we stand today,
combining a patriotic, Pan-Africanist
army and a supportive population,
the weaknesses of the civil service and
the political class notwithstanding,
the NRM has been able to pacify the
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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, LangoBukiri, 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-wise
and 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
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3. On the issue of infrastructure, we,
initially, lost time because of having
a small budget of only Uganda
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consequently, depend on the donors
for most of the infrastructure projects
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water, etc. The donors contribution
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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
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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
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(ii) Health, especially immunization;
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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:
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something everywhere but spend
decisively in some sectors. As a
consequence of this, we boosted the
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The budget of Defence from 350 billion

shillings, etc., etc. Yet the budget
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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
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we cannot do everything at a go.
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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,
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which, then, can support the Elderly
and the Youth.
Wages:
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a little longer is the Wage Bill. Out
of the 12,000 billion shillings we are
collecting every year, the Wage Bill
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we could have done more roads or
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CHINA
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2014

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2011

5,943.52

2010

5,237.76
2009
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123.52
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106.88

98.40

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92.16

92.00

3,989.12

92.80

3,360.16

93.44
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2,938.24

93.92

2005

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14.14

94.08
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2004
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89.60

2003
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2001

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2000

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93.92

1999

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590
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12.91

92.16
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551
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1994

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1993

539.36
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511
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1992

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1959
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1991
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85.76
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1935
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279.52

1955

84.32

1459
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1954

82.72
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1329
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1953
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1952
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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 but
save 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
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Ayago, our generation capacity will go to
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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
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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
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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
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hydro, solar, geo-thermals and nuclear.
We already have a Nuclear Energy unit
in the Ministry of Energy with scientists
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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.

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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
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Kampala-Masaka;
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Mbarara-Kikagate;
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Hoima-Kigoroobya-Biiso-Wanseko; Masindi
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Mbale-Maghale-Lwakhakha;
Rukungiri-Kihihi-Ishasha;
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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
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when
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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.
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soft loan from China or, later, using our
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apart from traversing East to West and
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backbone has been done with a loan from
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Health:
On the side of human resource
development, we have gone far.
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children from dying young. The
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health could have been achieved
if only the concerned authorities
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paid attention to hygiene, nutrition,
behaviour change, anti-malaria and
life-style.
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our children from dying young.
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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
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to have a Government secondary
school in all the 1,500 sub-counties
of Uganda.
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President Museveni Commissions new buildings at

Mary Hill High School, Mbarara
42

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 professional
colleges 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 very
expensive; 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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Right from the resistance days,
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philosophy of the physiocrats in
France that all value came from
agriculture had long been disproved
by the classical economists, such
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that without the industrialization of
our country, the future was bleak if
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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 got
six 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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our cotton
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Value addition on cotton creates jobs
A kilogramme of ginned cotton sells

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one kilo of lint cotton (when seeds
have been removed), would sell at
86 7KHUHIRUH E\ VHOOLQJ
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
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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
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high transport costs, how will you be
competitive in both the internal and
export markets?
By,
correctly,
prioritising
infrastructure, we are now able to
support our manufacturers local or
foreign sourced. I am glad the power
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the one from Bujagali has been
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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.

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Services:
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infrastructure, we have also laid
the basis for the developing of our
huge services sector.
Our huge
and incomparable tourism sector,
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now attracts 1.4 million visitors per
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annum. I am told that there has been
a slow-down of tourists because of the
LJQRUDQFHLQWKH:HVW86DQG(XURSH
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
Murchison Falls
Snow on the Rwenzori Mountains

49
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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
.DPZHQJ\H.DEDDOH
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 in
the 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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2QWKHLVVXHRIHQGLQJWKHERWWOHQHFN
of market fragmentation caused
by colonialism, with the support of
our brothers and sisters in the EAC
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a market of 150 millions in the EAC
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producers of goods and services,
therefore, have no excuse of not
having a market.
The Diary Sector is growing rapidly

52

Value addition on milk
Indeed, the surplus of our milk

production (2 billion litres while
the consumption in Uganda is
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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
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etc. Therefore, we can say that the
NRM goal of market integration for
53
prosperity has been achieved. What

is not yet achieved is the political
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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
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6FLHQFHLVEHFRPLQJDQHZFDSDFLW\
for aggressors who will shoot at
their victims from space, completely
out 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
\HDUV 7KH 150 ULJKW IURP
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:
8JDQGD LV YHU\ ZHOO HQGRZHG IRU
DJULFXOWXUH 6WUDQJHO\ KRZHYHU
many of the families in agriculture
have been living in poverty,
just on account of ignorance,
mainly, complicated by problems
of poor leadership and some
parasite 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 comparative
enterprises selection guided by the
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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,
FXUDRWLWDSURWDELOLW\DVVHVVPHQW;
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 explanation
of this strategy.
Through the
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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-Otitakulukulu) 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
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on energy and mineral development;
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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 of
the elections, the visit of His Holiness
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we successfully hosted and other
temporary factors. However, in the
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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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Land fragmentation
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)
DPRQJ WKH EHQHFLDULHV 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
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of the swamps for agriculture needs
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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
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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, Lugbarajodritiza, Teso-aiswap, Luo-rumoot) for the traditional houses and
mulching (Okwarira, Teso-aiswapalupok) in gardens and banana
plantations.
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When you dry the swamps, the bigugu

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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Wetlands:
The
swamps
can
be
used
economically by the people that are
near them but in an eco-friendly
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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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Fish farming is much, much more

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agriculture and yet we can, then,
preserve the swamp, the water, the
bigugu, etc.
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Rain:
Drying swamps is more dangerous
in an even more fundamental way,
the reducing of our rain. Karamoja
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while West Nile is also on latitude
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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
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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, throwing
it in the atmosphere and the water,
then, comes back as rain). Then, the
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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
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The healthy do not need a doctor. It is
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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

64

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 developed
improved seeds and breeding stock.
Rolling our new vaccines for Poultry

65
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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 biotechnology so that we use that
potential to protect crops from
drought, from diseases, etc, as well
as imparting certain qualities such
as quick-maturing, etc. etc.
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9.
10.
Corruption:
The strategic bottleneck of interfering
with the private sector was resolved
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:HJDYHIUHHGRPWRWKHSULYDWH
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
*RYHUQPHQW RIFLDOV 7KLV LV RI
course, curable by getting the Musisis
and Kaginas who are increasingly
becoming available.
Lack of democracy used to be a
strategic 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 a
valueless 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 leaders
that bring these programmes nearer
to them rather than liars who give
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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 in

removing the obstacles and
achieving the goals?
Above, I have outlined what has

been done. What, then, remains
undone?
The major things that
remain undone or not done enough
are: industrialization; job-creation
68

for the youth; skilling the youth; safe

water for drinking and irrigation for
agriculture; total commercialization
of agriculture and ending land
fragmentation; the use of fertilizers
in agriculture; institutional houses
for teachers, soldiers and health
workers; compensation for cattle
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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 our
agricultural products and minerals.
Our people are now educated
and
can
run
manufacturing
enterprises. They just lack capital
money. The loans of the Banks are
expensive.
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 the
Government, directly or indirectly,
that can provide this capital. We
KDYHDOUHDG\SXW8J6KELOOLRQ
in the UDB for lending to processors
(involved in value addition) and 500
billion shillings in the budget of this
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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 the
innovation 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 is
necessary, basing themselves as
near the raw-materials sources as
possible.
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Uganda needs to add value to its maize production

71
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200,000 tonnes per annum. It is
now 4 million tonnes. Much of this
maize needs to be processed into
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into animal feeds (for chicken, pigs,
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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 miniindustries will be based at the subcounties if there is electricity nearby.
We have already supported some of
the groups. It does not cost much.
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processor. Meanwhile, we need to
continue attracting the big factories
for coffee, textiles, minerals, etc.
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With Electricity production, industries will be

HVWDEOLVKHGDWHYHU\VXEFRXQW\
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 ironore of Muko and Butogota, not to
forget the magnetite deposits at
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started of developing the phosphates
and iron-ore of the latter in order to
produce fertilizers, steel, sulphuricacid and rare earth.
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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 artisanal
scale, 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 bending
machine.
One group had 30 youths in it and there are
VXFKJURXSVLQWKH1DMHHUDDUHD7KHVH
common user facilities can be shared by
DOO WKH JURXSV 7KHVH FRPPRQXVHU
machines, lower their costs of production
E\ (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
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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 vehicle
mechanics, brick-layers, hair dressers,
tailors, etc.
Najeera Youth at their Metal Fabrication workshop

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Lutuungu Technical School:

6NLOOLQJ WKH \RXWK KDV DOUHDG\
started. We are intensifying the
effort by the plan to build a technical
school in each constituency. We
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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,
DW.LVR]L$WRWDORI\RXWKKDYH
graduated from there in the last 12
years. They have graduated with
skills of: carpentry and joinery,
electrical installation, motor vehicle
mechanic, 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 and

accessories
Electrical Installation
Tool box and

accessories
Motor vehicle
mechanic
Tool box and

accessories
Tailoring and Cutting

Garments
6HZLQJ0DFKLQH
Home Economics and Gas cooker, cylinder

Catering
and accessories
Block-laying and
Concrete Practice
Tool box and

accessories
Hair dressing
Drier, barbing
machine and
generator
Diary production
Cow
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1 million to buy consumables. I
directed them to add the skills of
ceramics, weaving, knitting and
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\RXWKV ZLWK WRROV DQG WKH
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per person. This can be done all
over.
These are the lower end
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worked out for the more advanced
skills such as petroleum and gas or
marine courses (boat drivers, ferry
technicians, water navigators, etc).
13.
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As far as safe-water for drinking and

as far as irrigation is concerned, the
present situation is as here below:
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IRU WKH XUEDQ SRSXODWLRQ DQG
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to cover the other 23% for the urban
and 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
SHUYLOODJH7KHYLOODJHVDUH
including the town ones. We already
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 per
village, 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
ZLWK D FRPELQHG SRSXODWLRQ RI
million people. By this systematic
method, we are going to cover
everybody 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 microirrigation on each farm using solar
energy-water pumps. Makerere is
already 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.
14.
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Fertilizers:
The use of fertilizers in Uganda is
very low. The use of fertilizers in the
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EU, it is 150 kgs per ha; in India it
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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
IHUWLOL]HUV LQ WKH FRPLQJ QDQFLDO
years. Fortunately, we are building
our own fertilizer industry for
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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
82

A boost from the Presidential Initiative on Banana

Production
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
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the areas in North Ankole as far
as commercialization of milk was
concerned, building on the earlier
work we had done as students in
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our peasantry could be prosperous
through commercializing small scale
agriculture. Hence, the need for the
three steps already referred to: go
83
from subsistence to food security and

commercialization of agriculture; do
so with ekibaro, cura, otita, aimar,
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land fragmentation on inheritance.
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opposed to elite education, we have
increased classrooms in permanent
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brand new secondary schools; we
have expanded University Education
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(Makerere) to 32, both government
and private universities today; and
we are expanding technical and
vocational training. However, we
have a huge backlog of institutional
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policy of selling institutional houses
84

and giving public servants what

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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.
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of salaries for public servants,
advocated for democratic suffering
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should be low for everybody. I have
never agreed with this view because
85
it undermines performance. Take

for example, the army.
As the
UPDF has matured, we have trained
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pilots for air lines where a pilot is
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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
86

the wider society. What is true of the

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doctors, engineers, science teachers,
etc.
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all the Ugandan armies: KAR, UA,
UNLA and NRA/UPDF. Originally,
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reduced to 540 billion shillings.
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paying the money for the veterans?
It is because we do not have only
the 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
87
per year. This is much more than

what the veterans need. However,
by handling these sectors, you are
creating a higher base for everybody
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could not handle, at the same level,
all the sectors at one go, we had to
start with some and the others will
follow later.
19.
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Security and Restocking:

Compensation follows the same
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have provided for 9.5 billion
shillings. Yet the total requirement
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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
will, indeed, be done in the same

systematic manner as we have done
with the roads, electricity, defence,
etc. Can anybody dispute the fact
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we have dealt with restocking Teso,
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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 the
matter of the akasiimo for the Luwero
civilian veterans. Whoever has not
yet received his kasiimo, will receive
it in time because the foundation
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economy, the latter propelled by
more electricity and better roads.
89
20.
90
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 mailoland system that the British had
used 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
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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.
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idea of suspending land sales in
Buganda for a period of time to
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 out
the 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,
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households have been settled on the
land liberated from a landlord by
paying 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
91
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 the
NRM over the years?
What are the strategic obstacles
that impeded the realization of those
goals?
Which obstacles have we removed
and which of them remain unUHPRYHGRUQRWVXIFLHQWO\WDFNOHGLI
tackled at all?
To recapitulate, we should repeat that
our strategic goals are: prosperity and
92

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 that
have not been addressed or not addressed
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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.
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will be tarmacked, either using
93
Government money or money from

partners abroad. The last road that
lacked funding was RwenkunyuMasindi
Port-Apac-Lira-PurangaAcholibar. It will be funded by the
Islamic Development Bank loan.
(v)
Electricity generation has grown

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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 transmission
which was very expensive.
(vii) The
telecommunications
has
undergone a fundamental revolution
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being awed by an Iraqi Minister
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94

sounded so huge compared to what

we had. We now have much more
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(viii) The service sector has been growing
at the rate of 5.3% per annum.
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billion.
Everything to encourage
Tourism is in place: security,
infrastructure (roads) and the hotel
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40,000 beds, today, in the whole of
Uganda. The only lacking element
is promotion. Everything else is in
place. The other services are also
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our children if it is emphasized.
This is BPO (Business Processes
Outsourcing). The ICT backbone
is in place and the undersea cable
is in place. The cost has come
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per megabit per second per month.
It can, however, go lower below
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month, if we cut out middlemen and
activate the alternative route to the
95
undersea cables through Mutukula

via Tanzania to the Port of Dar-es6DODDP
(ix)
The railway is going to be

reconstructed and up-graded to
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Chinese loan. If the Chinese loan
does not materialize, we shall use
our 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,
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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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96

Political Federation of East Africa,

which we are ever working on. Both
the economic integration and the
political 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
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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
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sulphuric acid. We are remaining
to 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.
97
MM steel factory in Jinja
Steel Rolling Mills

98

Value addition wine made out of fruits

99
(xii) On
the
commercialization
of
agriculture, the movement is on.
The Ugandans have been awakened.
This is great.
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100

I know that the Ugandans are awake

because of the demand for the
planting and breeding materials.
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seedlings of tea, 2.5 million of orange
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the demand is growing. This is very
good. In our usual prioritization
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we are going to spend more on the
seedlings and the breeding stock.
The movement on this front is on.
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of the people in the urban areas
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access to safe water. We are, this
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shillings on water alone. To cover
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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
101
as planning for micro-irrigation on

each farm using solar-powered water
pumps that are being developed. The
diesel 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.
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started. As already pointed out, there
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vocational schools. We are aiming at
a 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 it
is 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,
phosphorus and potassium).
102

(xvi) The increase of the pay for the

scientists has been started but more
must be done. The whole of the NRM
leadership 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
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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.
103
Above, I have talked about ideology,

strategy, politics (applied ideology) plans
and programmes. As I conclude, let me
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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
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should explain all this to the people
(okunyonyora 6LPSO\ VKRXWLQJ VORJDQV
104

at rallies will not help people understand

the ideology, the strategy, the policies
or the plans. Explaining, sensitization
(okushobororera, okunyonyola LV
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
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should also be used.
President Museveni launching the BPO

Communication Centre
105
Apart from explaining, the leaders

should monitor, inspect and ensure the
implementation of the programmes for
kukyenuura (solving peoples problems).
The leaders could also lead by example.
If it is, for instance, farming, the leaders
themselves should be the lead farmers. If
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the example.
Finally, we need to also address the
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supported this mighty organisation that
has brought peace to your country. The
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I have been fundraising for the Party.
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106

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6LQFH , KDYH EHHQ VWUXJJOLQJ ZLWK
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
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were about 150 Bank account holders.
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Assuming 5 million were NRM supporters
or sympathizers and each made a onetime
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thousand shillings), the Party would raise
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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.
107
Long Live the NRM

Long Live Uganda
Long Live the East African Federation
Long Live the Common Market of Africa
108


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NRM DELEGATES CONFERENCE 2015

Address by the Chairman

the failure of marriage. The two names,

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targets and the blockages that obstruct

strategic bottlenecks? Answering these

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people that buy my goods or services, the

Down with Sectarianism:

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identities. On the question of natural

integration. Economic integration aims

Symbol of the East African Community

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With economic integration, in search

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on a reciprocal basis. Internal strength

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even the UK could have been conquered if

3 as far as the NRM is concerned. We

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the parastatals tend to be corrupt

which are prosperity and security; we have

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President Museveni enjoying different cultural

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been imbued with the NRM ideology

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Minimum Wage in USD per Month

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Hydro electric dam construction underway.

Bujagali Power dam has boosted electricity

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