President Museveni has asked Ugandans to move away from thinking that only government jobs matter, noting that farming is a job too.
“You hear people talking jobs but there is a disorientation of people from colonial times as they came to believe that working in government as clerks is the only job. This is wrong. You find a farmer and ask what is your job, they say they have not job. You have no job yet you are the one feeding us! Without you we would die. Agriculture is a job, fishing is a job,”Museveni said.
The president was on Wednesday addressing a rally at Amolatar Secondary School playgrounds in Amolatar district as he kicked off his campaigns in Lango.
He said it is high times all Ugandans got involved in wealth creation, noting that this way, they will create jobs .
“When you create wealth, you also create jobs. You can’t talk of many jobs without wealth creation. These are jobs from agriculture. There are also those from factories and they employ 1.2 million people. If you put together all government jobs they are 400,000. Factories are therefore employing more people than all government jobs,” Museveni said.
“All Ugandans need to know jobs come from wealth. Wealth can be in agriculture, manufacturing, services like hotels and boda boda riding among others.”
Museveni emphasised the need for prioritising wealth creation other than development.
“Development in form of roads, hospitals and schools is good because these are things which benefit all of us. This is very good but it is also dangerous for leaders who don’t understand. Some of the leaders speak about dongolobo(development) but forget wealth,” he noted.
“Development is ours but wealth is mine(individually). At night you don’t sleep on the road. You go back to the house and find all the poverty you left . It welcomes you back saying , I am still there. You will find children have no clothes and staying in a bad house. Don’t just speak about only development and forget wealth. Wealth is yours but development is ours. Wealth is for you as an individual or family but development is for us all.”
