{UAH} Museveni slams ghetto youths for wanting instant benefits
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President Museveni has chastised a section of ghetto youths he met for wanting instant benefits.
Describing them as "dangerous", the president said the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) which he leads and the Church have not done enough uplifting the youth in slums and teaching them the values of life like patience.
"Impatience, the lack of working for a long period. I met our youth here from the ghetto and they told me that for them they want 'kagwirawo' (quick benefits), so I said to the children, you are very dangerous. You can see the church people, you are not reaching the people in the ghetto and the NRM people are not reaching them. That's why they have this orientation of wanting quick benefits," President Museveni, 76, said Thursday during the 22nd prayer breakfast meeting at the State House Entebbe.
In his speech during the Independence Day anniversary, the President again condemned the youth for wanting "kwagirawo."
"The commercial banks we have are like our Kampala youths who want ekigwirawo (instant profits)," Mr Museveni said before adding that government plans to set up a specialised agricultural bank that will be able to give affordable capital to Ugandan farmers.
Mr Museveni who has been in power since 1986 and the only president most youths have known, said quick benefits are a disaster yet life calls for persistence and patience.
"Kagwirawo" is a slang in the local dialect, Luganda, used to mean instant payment or benefit.
The president also urged Ugandans to desist from doing evil things as the wages of sin is death.
"When I was seeing the bad things that were happening in the NRM primaries, I was wondering if these people know that there is God. They seem to think that these things will end here; that if you cheat, alter results, announce different ones, it is really amazing how people are bad planners," Mr Museveni said.
Mr Museveni added that, "From practical life I confirm two things; one is avoid evil and secondly know that God is there. There are those who try to say there is science and God and at the same time lie. Science is God's work. We are simply discovering…, if you avoid evil you get blessed even if you are in a very difficult situation…The wages of sin is death and the wages of righteousness is blessings. I have experienced this in real life," President Museveni added.
Meanwhile as coronavirus continues to ravage the country, the president urged Ugandans to be more cautious.
"When Pontius Pilate ordered for the crucifixion of Jesus, it was because people were shouting. I am not Pontius Pilate, I cannot condone a wrong just because people are shouting, first of all I am not working for you but for someone else; a much higher authority," the President said.
The First Lady Janet Museveni prayed for safe reopening of schools despite the Standard Operating Procedures put in place.
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