Museveni should appoint an advisor on poverty, FDC mocks the president
FDC: We are very disappointed by Museveni's statement about the poverty line in Busoga. This statement alone in countries that care about their people would see people on the streets.
Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, while driving to Kyando in Mayuge district to preside over the inaugural Bishop James Hannington Day on Saturday, was shocked to see the level of poverty in Busoga sub-region.
Dismayed, the president said: “I have been peeping through my car window as I travelled here for this function and I have kept wondering to myself how do these people live through this sort of poverty?”
“I have screened through all these villages where I have passed but the houses and all the other things I have seen have left me wondering how it’s possible for our people to survive through these hard economic conditions,” the president added.
The president’s words have been received with mixed reactions considering that Busoga has been supporting his regime voting for him over 90% all the time apart from the last elections when the region tilted to the opposition side with the emergence of Bobi Wine and his National Unity Platform.
Baffled by how detached the president is from Ugandans and especially Busoga, a region that has stood with him since, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), an opposition political party, has mockingly asked Museveni to appoint an advisor on poverty, just like he appointed an advisor on Ankole Cows and pays him Shs15m.
“The poverty in this country is stinking, people are sleeping on the streets, and ten million Ugandans spend a day without a meal the unemployment rate is at 60%,” Harold Kaija, the FDC Deputy Secretary General, told journalists at the party headquarters Najjanankumbi, a Kampala suburb.
“We are very disappointed by Museveni’s statement about the poverty line in Busoga. This statement alone in countries that care about their people would see people on the streets,” Kaija added.
The opposition party believes Museveni is tired and stressed to be in a sound state to lead the country and he is sleeping on the job because the people of Uganda have not been serious about ending his rule.
