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One of his famous quotes on this issue goes like this: It is not from
the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we
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expect our dinner but from their regard for their own interest. We
address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love. In
other words, the butcher, the brewer and the baker work so hard in
order to serve us, not out of their altruism and love for us, but out
of their self-love. If, on the other hand, the diagnosis is inaccurate
like in the case of the bullionists who held that wealth is measured
by the amount of precious metals owned, society will stagnate like
Portugal and Spain, who excelled in stealing gold and silver from
South America and killing the Red Indians, did.
of
the
sectors:
commercial
agriculture,
industries
governments,
municipal
council
governments
or
government
What, then, are the factors that can stimulate, sustain and cause
the thriving of the four sectors to guarantee the prosperity of our
families? There are three major factors. These are a critical mass of
the buyers and consumers of the goods and services produced by
our families and communities; infrastructure to support production
and exchange of those goods and services (electricity, roads, the
railways, ICT, etc., etc.) and security of person and property (in
other words, peace in the country). There are other subsidiary and
supplementary factors such as regulatory framework, etc. However,
in my opinion, the three are the basic and cardinal ones: market
(buyers of goods and services); infrastructure; and peace security
of person and property.
Banyoro,
for
instance,
used
to
specialise
in
hoes
It enabled us to
firmly and scientifically distil the first principle of NRM from the fog
of perceptions that were abundant in Uganda at that time. This is
the principle of patriotism or nationalism as it is sometimes
described. It, therefore, became the first ideological principle of the
NRM.
It is not
only patriotism that will guarantee our prosperity but also PanAfricanism.
traditional
subsistence
cattle-keeping,
farming,
etc.)
are
traditional
the
crop
mainstay
of
husbandry,
the
under-
The recent census has not yet processed the updated figures on
these parameters.
machines the tractor, the motor-cycle, the pick-up truck for loads
and locomotion, the calculator, etc, etc. We have already moved in
some cases. By using the mobile phone, it is no longer necessary to
shout across the valleys when calling somebody (okweeta) or
sending runners (entumwa) to carry the message to the distant
village.
socio-economic
transformation.
Therefore,
socio-
villages. The weakness that this Conference must cure is that these
village NRM Committees and also the Local Government LCIs must
be fully engaged and taken advantage of to improve the welfare of
everybody in our society. The NRM, therefore, did not only provide
the diagnosis and possible therapy for the problems of Uganda but
also created a massive structure that could help the leadership to
more easily explain and implement that vision. In the bush, these 4
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The economy has expanded from US$ 1.5 billion in 1986 to now
almost US$ 28 billion. The GDP per capita is now US$788. The
Ugandan exports of goods and services ever since 1962 are listed
here below in terms of value in US dollars:
Exports of goods and
(millions)
(millions)
1962
108.28
1988
492.90
1963
146.07
1989
419.71
1964
176.17
1990
311.67
1965
226.24
1991
247.95
1966
236.60
1992
250.34
1967
244.72
1993
227.44
1968
248.36
1994
348.78
1969
251.57
1995
678.73
1970
294.13
1996
723.00
1971
280.83
1997
837.55
1972
289.09
1998
634.71
1973
281.68
1999
734.92
1974
308.95
2000
659.67
1975
204.11
2001
672.71
1976
278.70
2002
702.85
1977
268.76
2003
834.01
1978
330.43
2004
1132.29
1979
415.00
2005
1542.02
1980
242.00
2006
1735.59
1981
215.00
2007
2439.03
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1982
182.50
2008
3039.72
1983
194.00
2009
3353.75
1984
458.91
2010
3467.64
1985
483.55
2011
4297.50
1986
502.57
2012
4915.76
1987
517.05
2013
5176.46
Tororo-Mbale-Soroti;
Ishaka-Kagamba;
Jinja-Kamuli;
Moroto-Nakapiripirit;
Hoima-
Mpigi-Kanoni;
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Kyetume-Katosi;
Kikagate;
Mubende-Kakumiro-Kagadi-Ndaiga;Mbarara-
Tirinyi-Pallisa-Kumi,
Hoima-Kigoroobya-Biiso-Wanseko,
Using loans and grants from outside, we have already done, we are
doing or we shall also do the following roads in terms of tarmacking:
Arua-Oraba, Gulu-Atiak, Atiak-Bibia, Masaka-Mbarara, MbararaKabaale-Katuna, Fort Portal-Bundibugyo, Arua-Oraba, Gulu-AtiakBibia, Mbale-Magale-Bumbo-Lwakhakha with a branch to Manjiya,
Rukungiri-Kanungu-Ishasha-Nyakishenyi, Kapchorwa-Kween-BukwoSuam,
Kigumba-Masindi-Hoima-Kagadi-Kyenjojo,
Iganga-Kaliro
Soroti-Amuria-Acan
Pii-Abim,
Masaka-Bukakata,
etc., etc.
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negotiated for Bujagaali did not even stick to our position negotiated
with AES where we had agreed on US$ 4.9 cents per unit.
Unfortunately, on account of the delays caused by our internal
actors, by the time we came to Bujagaali, our people had accepted
the price of US$ 11 cents per unit because, as they are saying, the
financial situation globally had changed and contractors were also
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Whatever the
With
US$ 11 cents per unit to US$ 3 cents per unit, after 18 years, when
the borrowers have finished paying their loans. This is not good for
manufacturing.
Ugandan
accountants
and
auditors,
work
on
The other two interventions to help create jobs are, on the one hand,
to create, improve or expand the marketing points e.g.
urban
markets, work sheds etc and, on the other hand, to implement and
proliferate our policy of industrial
such as Namanve, Kaweweta etc. You have seen the quality of the
markets we have commissioned in Wandegeya, Jinja, Mbale etc.
We
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are going to roll out more and more of these as well as the industrial
estates and the export free zones.
Besides, the socio-economic interventions we have been carrying
out have not been in vain. While in 1986, we had only 1,209,640
pupils in primary schools, in 2014, we have 8,459,720 pupils in
government and private primary schools.
In
In 1986,
only 10% of the people were living in the urban areas. Today, about
22% of the people are living in the urban areas.
urbanisation
is
part
of
the
necessary
As you know,
social-economic
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mechanics, mathematicians,
singers,
sportsmen,
etc.,
etc.
This
is
not
doctors,
to
forget
Low costs of
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In
very projects that will generate more exports for us, create jobs for
our youth and give incomes to our homesteads by buying rawmaterials from the rural households. I am getting to the position of
zero-tolerance to this type of conduct by any actor official or
otherwise.
(Insert some pictures of palm oil trees in Kalangala)
recommended poultry for meat or eggs and piggery for those who
are not Moslems.
farming. To cater for those families that had already fragmented the
land, we recommended piggeries, poultry, onions and vegetables and
mushroom growing.
We advised
All this
My
Let us
than the old coffee trees. By planting the 323 million new coffee
trees, Ugandas production in future will be 20 million, 60kgs bags.
It will cover 717,000 acres of land. All at a cost of just sh100b, less
than 50% of one years NAADS allocation!! How could we fail to help
our people with all these possibilities?
acres of land, fruits covered 14,553.9 acres and the tea seedlings
covered 549.8 acres of land. Most of the homesteads of the civilian
FRONASA and NRA veterans have now been covered, in just 3
seasons. The maize seeds and beans have generated bumper crops
in these areas.
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by
the
people,
unlike
the
unpatriotic,
remote,
I have also already instructed the new Prime Minister and the
Minister of the Presidency to scan the whole spectrum of
Government expenditure and indentify the money that is supposed
to be for monitoring in the ministries and agencies that is never
used for that purpose.
Why?
It was
as
NRA/UPDF).
committed
cadre-ship
(e.g.
officers
and
men
of
Chief
Administrative
Officers,
Town
Clerks
and
While
stopping extra judicial killings, requires a form four (4) leaver (S.4)
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Besides, even
assuming we had them, which we did not have, we could not have
dismissed the public servants we found in place without causing a
big political crisis. To fight corruption in the roads sector, you do not
only need engineers, but you need upright engineers of adequate
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but
also
upright
professionals,
whose
professional
warriors are not political appointees. The PS, the CAO, the Town
Clerk, the Gombolola chief, the magistrate, the judge, the auditor,
the accountant, the investigator, the prosecutor are all, without
exception, brought forward by professional bodies. These are: the
Public Service Commission, the District Service Commission, the
Education Service Commission, the Judicial Service Commission,
the Health Service Commission, etc. Even where the President is
involved, he signs the instruments (documents of appointment) that
are forwarded to him by these professional bodies.
In all the 28
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years I have been President, I can only remember two or three times
when I refused to sign an appointment instrument forwarded to me
by these bodies. I would have been wrong to do so. I also cannot
blame those professional recommending bodies. They normally look
at the academic performance of these people which is, of course,
excellent. The recommending bodies cannot be expected to know the
integrity of all these applicants. They must be assisted by the other
structures. The corruption in them is not easy to detect, especially
when they have no track record, yet. Where there is a track record of
poor performance, I have rejected the nominees. These are the few
cases that I rejected.
Recently, you saw what I did with NAADS. We had given freedom of
action to the Ministry of Agriculture and NAADS for a total of 14
years since NAADS started and a total sum of
Trillions).
sh2,800b (2.8
sundry
that
the
residual
forms
of
criminality
i.e.
Extra-judicial killings,
Rape,
Defilement,
Poaching the animals in the National Parks,
Looting peoples property at road blocks,
Confiscating peoples property,
Destroying government resources (forests) by government
officials,
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The
immediately
above
mentioned
crimes
are
some
of
the
One
problem is the neglect of the vast structure the NRM created for
itself and for the country these are the LCs and the NRM
branches in the 57,792 villages of Uganda. After these structures
are elected, they remain dormant until the next election time. This
is not correct. It is a misuse of this human and political resource.
It is wasted opportunity. NRM was the first political force to create
enough consensus among Ugandans to the extent of garnering 75%
support in the 1996 elections.
by
the
gerrymandering
of
This is
constituencies
by
UPC.
Therefore, the people of Uganda have been lucky to have got the
NRM that finally put a huge chunk of them together. In the 2011
elections, they were even luckier when, for the first time, in the
history of Uganda, a political force won in all the four regions of
Uganda. It is, therefore, inexcusable for the NRM managers not to
fully use this opportunity.
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I do not
The only
resources I had were JOI Kagumire, a typist that had escaped from
the Police force, a looted type-writer and cyclostyling machine.
We
This
problem must be cured by having full time workers of the party even
if they are just a handful. Haji Kigongo and a few of the political
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The other political mistake is the use of money in elections and the
distorting of the purpose of leadership. A political leader is not a
welfare officer, he is not an employee of the population, he is not a
service provider. He is from the people, by the people and for the
people.
knowledge of the forest and how to get out of it, what will be the
relationship between him and those who selected him? If it is night
or early morning, his job will be to beat the dew (omusulo, orume,
lime, erindii - Lugbara, ekuuna - Ateso, toyo - Acholi, to clear away the
thorns and crush through the tall grass (kubaanda omukyenkye a
particular type of tall grass the one they get drinking straws from).
His job is to get the correct bearings of the geography (North, East,
South or East) and lead his group out of the forest.
by the civil servants. He is not an employee. That is, again, the civil
servants. To lead is to show the way, by speaking and doing things
of how people can get out of subsistence farming and engage in
commercial farming etc. etc., sending children to school and
providing them with entaanda (packed lunch) as we agreed under
UPE so that we minimize the issue of money, how to save money
and join cooperatives, how to be frugal etc. etc. Many of the leaders
have failed to know this.
church, the other mosque, this other school, etc., etc. What is the
result? Heavy indebtedness by the leader to the extent of having
their properties sold off. This is not only total failure of leadership
but endangers the security and independence of our country. We
cannot have financially beleaguered people deciding the destiny of a
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country.
institutionalized solutions for our people in place that have not been
properly utilized. As pointed out above, the total money for NAADS
and other funds that could be used for wealth creation amount to
about sh500b per annum. These do not include Universal Primary
Education (UPE) money which is of the magnitude of sh950b per
annum. UPDF, on my orders, has started using some of the NAADS
money. You can see the impact already, just after three seasons.
Uganda, however, are scaring away these factories by, on the one
hand, mishandling the investors and, on the other hand, leading the
premature campaign of over pricing of Ugandas labour that will lead
to Uganda, again, missing out. This is not acceptable. We must go
back to the arrangement where wages are fixed by one authority.
Besides, the wages policy must fit in our overall strategy of economic
development. Let us also look at countries that have recently got out
of poverty. What was the wage structure in China between 1949
when the Communists came to power and now? How about India?
How about South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia? Why? I will cause
a paper to be written on this subject for future discussion. At a
personal level, however, you could look at my testimony. In the last
50 years of my contribution to Uganda, I either get no salary (e.g.
1971-79 minus the two years at the Moshi Cooperative College and
1981-86) or I get very low salaries. However, using whatever little
money that I earn or borrow, I, prudently, invest that money. The
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With the
All the efforts I have talked about above, did not include the
petroleum and gas we discovered in 2006. By 2017, we shall start
pumping the oil out for our refinery and the pipeline. We estimate a
production of 180,000 barrels on average per day. If we assume a
low price of US dollars 70 per barrel, that will give us an annual
extra income of US $4.6b. 70% of this money i.e. US $3.2b will be
Uganda Government money. This money will never be used for
salaries, imports, etc., etc.; it will only be used for hydro-power
dams and other forms of energy, the Standard Gauge
industrialization
(industrial-estates),
scientific
Railway,
innovation
and
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In conclusion, the four principles of the NRM Patriotism, PanAfricanism, Socio-economic transformation and Democracy have
served us well. Distilled in the student study groups of the 1960s
and within the progressive wings of the old political parties, these
principles have helped us to successfully wage two resistance wars
(1971-79 and 1981-86), culminating in the capture of power, in
1986. Once we captured power, we were able to unite the people of
Uganda as never before. We have been able to reconstruct and
strengthen Uganda as never before.
corruption
in
UNRA
and
in
other
Government
whole
country
until
UPDF
had
to
come
in
and
the
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