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Museveni On Land
President Yoweri Museveni dismissed as untrue claims that the government intends to grab private land through the constitution amendment bill 2017 because all land ownership matters in Uganda were clearly resolved by the 1995 constitution and the 1998 land act.
“My purpose of going to Radio stations is to give guidelines,” he said. “Those people who were saying that I want to steal land, I’m here to demystify that lie.”
“It is not correct that the present land law is enough,” he said. ( See Understanding land acquisition challenges that have necessitated the Constitutional amendment bill, 2017)
Museveni stressed that the current proposed amendment to the land law is to counter those that have been using the weakness within the law on compensation to fraudulently rob the country and frustrate government fundamental programs.
Museveni described those who are propagating against the proposed amendment as “the enemies of Uganda” who think that once the law is amended they will not be able to cheat the country through illicit compensation claims.
On need for a legal framework that favours industry, Museveni said “the job of a modern government is to promote the private sector.”
He advised youth that jobs and wealth are in ICT, the services sector, agriculture, industrialization and public Service.
The briefing was the climax of the first phase of his radio land sensitization countrywide tour.
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These so called Nyekundiire may not be toeing the official NRM line but what is the unofficial line? We all know that nothing of such great importance would be allowed to happen in Uganda without M7’s personal input. How many times have the opposition been assaulted by the police when the try to protest this amendment. The latest incident I think was in Entebbe yesterday. The police refused to take statements about the assault citing lack of jurisdiction. They are quick though to go miles out of their jurisdiction to teargas civilians who are opposition leaning. M7 is at it again. Insulting our, or should I say, my intelligence.
Once Hitler, came to one meeting with a live chicken. He started to pluck its feathers one by one off.
The chicken quacked in pain, blood oozing from its pores. It gave out heartbreaking cries but Hitler continued without remorse plucking feather after feather until the chicken was completely naked. After that, he threw the chicken on the ground and from his pockets, took out some chicken feed and started to throw it at the poor creature. It started eating and as he walked away, the chicken followed him and sat at his feet feeding from his hand.
Hitler then told members of his party “This chicken represents the people, you must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up and leave them. If you do this and then give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life.They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, it is you who brought them to that situation in the first place.”
Does this sound familiar?