{UAH} Dreamers dream on: I’ll be 69 years in September but still strong, says Museveni
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In what might be the first explicit revelationabout the actual date of his birth, President Museveni has said he will be making 69 years in September, but that he is still going strong because he takes very good care of himself.
"Take my example, I will be making 69 years in September but because I have been doing physicals, I am still energetic," said Mr Museveni on Friday. Mr Museveni, who was addressing veterans at Kityerera Sub-county headquarters in Mayuge District, urged Ugandans to borrow a leaf from him if they are to remain strong even in old age.
The President has previously said his parents, who were illiterate, never documented his date of birth but from his own research, he established that he was born in 1944 but he could not tell the exact date and month. This makes him 69 this year, but for the first time, he has revealed the actual month of his birth.
Mr Museveni advised the people, especially children, to involve themselves in sports and abstain from sex to avoid contracting HIV/Aids that weakens their bodies.
According to him, it was largely because of his careful living that he survived being killed at Musita by soldiers of the Uganda Army as he was heading to the South Busoga forest in Mayuge where some of his fighters had camped.
He said a truck carrying soldiers stopped at Musita where he had parked his Volkswagen vehicle and started questioning him but he and his co-driver pulled out guns and shot the soldier forcing the others to flee.
Busoga support
It was the support of the veterans from the 18 families in Mayuge that helped him to unseat past regimes which had become dictatorial, he said, adding that he was meeting the veterans to appreciate their contribution to the guerilla wars and to give them a plan for development. "I am here to see that you the liberators of this country find something to sustain your development and also benefit people in your area,'' he said.
The President pledged to give the veterans a tractor and a bricklaying machine saying that this would help them generate income, but hastened to warn them against involving themselves in boozing and acts of sectarianism, saying those will eat them up.
The veterans led by Mr Zaake Nawedi complained of lack of jobs for their children who have finished school and inability to pay fees for them, but Mr Museveni advised the veterans to take advantage of Universal Primary and Secondary Education as they wait for government sponsorship in public universities.
Mr Museveni (below) thanked the Basoga for hiding his fighters and voting him for President.
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