Politics is about solving people’s problems – Museveni
Museveni has urged the people of Serere County to vote for politicians who are able to solve their problems.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says Ugandans don’t understand the true meaning of politics and have now resorted to politics of identity which is very dangerous to the country.
He said that Ugandans while partaking in politics consider friendship, religion, tribe, clan and family yet politics is not about those things.
“Politics is about solving people’s problems and solving them truthfully and sustainably and this is what NRM is about. Of course, the problems are so many, you may not solve all of them at the same time because solving them at the same time is also a problem since you will not manage,” he said.
The President made the remarks yesterday while campaigning for the NRM flagbearer Philip Oucor ahead of Serere County By-Election on Thursday 23rd February 2023.
Museveni explained that the NRM has been solving Uganda’s problems for a long time even before they came to power in 1986.
He said when they were still students, they started addressing the country’s problems by telling students not to think about tribalism, religious sectarianism, not look down upon women, highlighting it as a reason why the National Resistance Army (NRA) was the first one to recruit women in the army.
“Why? Because that is how we believed that the country’s problems can be solved by relying on everybody according to their individual capacities,” he noted.
“Here (Teso) we had to first deal with the issue to disarming the Karamojongs because if we didn’t, whatever we do would not survive. And it was not easy because we had to remove 45,000 guns from the Karamojongs.
“The guns we removed from them were more than the guns of the army of Idi Amin and Obote combined. You can imagine those guns because Idi Amin’s army was 20,000, Obote I army was 8,000.
“I remember the lady who is standing here Alice Alaso, when she was still in Parliament, she opposed our idea of disarming the Karamojongs and other opposition politicians like Pulkol were opposing our idea, we said without disarming, there would be no development,” President Museveni remarked.
The President also warned saboteurs of government’s free Education for all program, saying that they are going to come up with a strong law to deal with them and prohibit the charging of fees in government schools.
