President Museveni has warned leaders misleading Ugandans saying what they are doing is wrong.
According to the president, these leaders divert Ugandans from important issues such as wealth creation.
“I’m really not happy with the people who divert our people’s attention. I am tired of the misleaders of our people and they should check themselves or I will check them,” he said.
Museveni made the remarks on Saturday while officiating at the thanksgiving ceremony of the Energy Minister, Ruth Nankabirwa, who was appointed Canon in the Church of Uganda at her country home in Ndejje, Luwero District.
According to the president, most leaders have failed to help their people to fight poverty due to their failure to follow and spread the National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s wealth creation message.
“When you come to an area, people tell you we want roads and electricity but from long ago, we told you that all those roads and electricity are what we call development, you can have development, but you still have poverty in your house. Wealth is direct to the home,” he said, adding that places like Ngoma, Kapeeka and neighbouring areas don’t have good roads but most families there are rich, simply because they listened to the NRM’s wealth creation message and undertook commercial agriculture with “ekibaro”.
“They have cows, they sell milk, and they have a lot of money. If I rear pigs here in Nakusibyaki, Nakikonge, Kalasa or Mugogo and I put my pigs on a pickup, the road which I use, even if it’s not tarmacked, can the pigs say that we cannot go to Kampala because the road is not tarmacked?” he inquired.
“The message of the LC1 Chairman confirms what I have been telling you, seek me first the Kingdom of heaven, the rest will be added onto you. When it comes to life on earth, our advice is seek first homestead incomes, the rest will be added onto you.”
The president also castigated leaders who frustrate government programs which are meant to develop the country.
“Now here there is paralysis. The president can bring up something which he thinks is very crucial but Parliament blocks it. Now the good thing is that Iam a patient person, most of the time I keep quiet, even if I dont agree with them, I keep quiet,” he said.
The president cited an example of when he brought an idea of how to build Bujagali Dam and Parliament blocked it, something which highly affected the country since it ran short of electricity a few months later.
“I kept quiet but very soon the results came. By 2005, we had a shortage of electricity, we even had elections during that load shedding period but because people love NRM, we won all the same,” he recalled.
“When we came back, I called the cabinet first and Parliament, I said please let us invest more in roads and electricity. If Parliament had not agreed at that time, we were going to have a showdown, so that we can resolve this business of stand-off.”
He explained that due to his decision at that time, the country now has good roads and enough electricity with a surplus.
