Museveni explains his radio land campaign

Museveni identifies those frustrating government

Museveni told his listeners on Monday that, “the challenge that the government has is land owners who reject government compensation and run to court thereby making government projects stall. I even wonder what these liars mean by “government grabbing people’s land” and Ugandans must know these liars as their enemies and enemies of Uganda because they are against the development of the country.”

“They are the same people who talk of unemployment amongst the youth but go on to frustrate government projects such as those in the energy and transport sectors that provide incentives for investment. They even frustrate investors directly as you are aware of the Amuru sugar project that has stalled for 6 years due to the same people,” he added.

“We need mass industrialisation to develop our country but these saboteurs continue to frustrate investors. I call upon all Ugandans to rise up against these people who are enemies of Uganda,” the President said.

“We even risk denting our country’s image internationally and being isolated because of the character of these people. We have to expose and shun them; otherwise the rest of the world will misunderstand us,” he noted

On the fight against household poverty, President Museveni called on the population to engage in modern agriculture that is commercial and profit oriented. He also called for cooperation with the Operation Wealth Creation Programme officials.

He said that Government has embarked on the promotion and use of irrigation throughout the country focusing on availing solar powered irrigation pumps in order to mitigate the effects of the long drought spells that have hit the country.

He further called on the population not to destroy wetlands and swamps and also refrain from cultivating on riverbanks and lakeshores. He said that such activities contribute immensely greatly to climate change in the country.

He revealed that government has a program to resettle a small portion of Ugandans who could have un-knowingly settled in swamps especially during the colonial era and revealed that government has so far secured 24 million dollars towards this direction.

Museveni who is also the national Chairman of the National Resistance Movement also used the occasion to rally all NRM supporters to offer themselves and participate in the upcoming Local Council 1 elections slated for November 21^st 2017 and to elect Movement candidates.

“Don’t allow those opposition hypocrites, liars and opportunist to take those leadership seats because if they can lie when they are few on the top, what damage would they cause if they take leadership positions at the village level,” he said.

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