{UAH} Message from the peoples president

"The Honouarable Excellency who is going to United Nations in executive jets, but has a population at home of 90% walking barefoot, is nothing but a pathetic spectacle.
Yet this Excellency may be trying to compete with Reagan and Golbachev to show that he, too, is an Excellency"

This is a verbatim extract of the speech Mr Museveni made on the steps of Uganda Parliament, after being sworn in as president on 26th Jan 1986.

Mr Museveni has just arrived in New York for this year's (2016) United Nations General Assembly meeting in the latest model of Gulf Stream 5 Executive Presidential Jet. This is more than 30 years when he made that speech!

Not only has he left home a barefoot population, but some are dying of hunger! 84% youth are unemployed; 19 women are dying, needlessly, in childbirth daily; young doctors (interns) are on strike because they aren't paid; an epidemic of jiggers looms in parts of the country; 75% children drop out of primary schools due to pathetic state of education standards etc, etc.

In 1986, I, too, stood at the stairs of parliament as Mr M7 swore-in as president and made that speech. Back then, we were found of saying, rightly, that shame is a revolutionary sentiment.

I'll not just be ashamed at having been a part of the "pathetic spectacle" that we continue to witness, I'll not rest until it's overcome. That's the least that I can do.

Happily, our country is now awake to the situation that we face. Ugandans are set to overcome the monumental challenge of being controlled as subjects of dictatorships. They are determined to reclaim their citizenship! I'll exert every bit of myself in this effort- POPULAR DEFIANCE!!
Dr Kiiza Besigye

Lopirigo Kakwenza

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