MUSEVENI ASSURES WORLD: UGANDA IS UNSTOPPABLE, LAUNCHES NARO ANTI-TICK VACCINE

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]So, therefore, Uganda is really unstoppable.

[00:00:10]That money you are talking about, 600 billion, is not a lot of money.

[00:00:22]We shall get it and give it to make it available.

[00:00:26]>> [music] >> The I had I had walked out a bit when Ramadhan was speaking.

[00:00:39]He said there was good news and bad news. What were the bad news?

[00:00:59]>> [music] [music] >> Your Excellency, the bad the good news is that we have made a milestone and we are going to reduce hemorrhage of money that has been going into acaricide.

[00:01:24]The bad news is that the acaricide manufacturers they have lost market in Uganda.

[00:01:30]Oh, that's not bad.

[00:01:34]That's good news.

[00:01:37]The The acaricides were a bad replacement because they are toxic.

[00:01:51]And eventually, the ticks get used to them.

[00:02:02]But maybe the scientists could come back and explain to the Ugandans how the vaccine protects the livestock, the the animal. Come back and tell and and tell us. When you when you have the vaccine, the one who knows.

[00:02:36]Does the Does the cow now kill the the the tick?

[00:02:50]Your Excellency, I want to request the leader of research, Dr. Mugerwa, to explain.

[00:02:56]Your Excellency, we got the protein from the tick itself.

[00:03:02]I know, and but what does it do to the tick? So, when you put this protein in form of a vaccine and inject it in the blood of the cow, the cow recognizes it as a foreign body.

[00:03:16]And when it recognizes it as a foreign body, it produces soldiers or antibodies to fight against that protein. So, when the tick comes and sucks blood, which contains the soldiers, those soldiers kill the tick.

[00:03:31]>> Uh-huh.

[00:03:48]The cow now kills the tick.

[00:03:51]That's what the vaccine does.

[00:03:54]And therefore, what will happen is that over if you How long does it last in the blood of the cow?

[00:04:06]Your Excellency, it lasts for 6 months.

[00:04:08]Every after 6 months, you vaccinate.

[00:04:11]Uh-huh.

[00:04:12]So, now if you do it repeatedly, in the end there will be no ticks in your land.

[00:04:21]They will disappear.

[00:04:24]What is the cost now?

[00:04:29]The cost of production is 10,000, Your Excellency. Per vaccine? Yes, per dose for each animal. Uh-huh. So, how much are you selling to the farmers?

[00:04:42]Your Excellency, that is the the the amount at which the farmers will get it.

[00:04:48]10,000. No, but you need to make some profit, you.

[00:04:54]Your Excellency, the cost at the factory is 5,000.

[00:04:58]>> Okay. Okay. Yes. Got it. Got it.

[00:05:01]So, 10,000, that means that uh if you have got 10 cows, you spend 100,000.

[00:05:16]If you have got 100, you spend 1 million.

[00:05:24]6 months.

[00:05:26]Yes, 6 months.

[00:05:27]If you have got 1,000, like some of us, you spend 10 million every 6 months.

[00:05:37]So, for for 1,000, you will spend 20 million in a year. That's what you are saying.

[00:05:44]Yeah.

[00:05:46]And and in the end, the ticks actually will will disappear.

[00:05:50]Is there any possibility that the ticks may become immune again?

[00:05:57]No, Your Excellency. The beauty with this vaccine, the ticks cannot develop immunity against it.

[00:06:03]Very good.

[00:06:04]So, really, thank you so much.

[00:06:07]Now, the farmers, I will invite you to at the end of the the wet season, I invite you to Kisozi.

[00:06:21]You come and immunize my cows, but you come with many vaccines because the cows there are many.

[00:06:29]And then we go to Ikitura.

[00:06:32]So, the farmers now, we have got a durable solution to this problem of ticks.

[00:06:38]And it is all the ticks.

[00:06:42]Because the other acaricide was sometime it would get a problem with some of the ticks because the ticks here are three.

[00:06:51]There is Entruru, which Waguma was not pronouncing well.

[00:06:56]Entruru. Entruru is Boophilus.

[00:07:00]There is Embarra barra.

[00:07:04]This is Amblyomma.

[00:07:06]There is Akagoha ricinus.

[00:07:10]So, all these are killed by this combined vaccine.

[00:07:17]It is really a revolutionary step in African agriculture.

[00:07:27]I can tell you that cattle keepers suffered a lot from these ticks.

[00:07:35]Areas of of Sheema, Kajara, but many parts of Kajara, Igara, Bweru, even parts of Kashari, never had tsetse flies.

[00:07:52]It was where the other areas which had tsetse flies.

[00:07:56]But the biggest problem was ticks. These ticks would cause They cause four diseases in cows.

[00:08:05]They cause amashiyo, which is East Coast fever.

[00:08:11]In Uganda, they call it amakebe.

[00:08:16]They cause uh kashanku, anaplasmosis.

[00:08:24]They cause omusto, babesiosis.

[00:08:30]They cause heart water, which the Banyankole call it ekinjerera.

[00:08:37]So, all those were really big problems for farmers.

[00:08:43]So, this is a very big step, and I congratulate the science community for this.

[00:08:50]>> [music] >> I have been working to stabilize our science community.

[00:09:01]That's why, although I had opposition from other people, I insisted on increasing the pay of the scientists.

[00:09:14]>> [music] >> But but I would I would want us to do more.

[00:09:18]Because the scientists, even when you give them what we give them, starting pay, with a tax of 30%, they go back to very little.

[00:09:33]So, in the new government, I want to propose some ideas which they will discuss.

[00:09:44]For the soldiers and the policemen, we give them tax-free tax-free pay. They don't pay tax.

[00:09:57]You you >> You Ugandans, if you really want your economy your agriculture to stabilize your economy to stabilize this scientist What if we treated them as soldiers and we said okay >> [music] [applause] >> They are not many. They are not many.

[00:10:20]They are not like other people. They are not many. They like this man Baguma there He has got 16 institutions.

[00:10:34]This is narrow and like this one there are 16 of them.

[00:10:39]But all of them they are now employing 700 people.

[00:10:43]So this is a big number.

[00:10:45]What if we said you you because you are doing a special job the little you have got you don't you don't tax exempt.

[00:10:59]And we did the same for the doctors those doctors so they they they stabilize.

[00:11:06]And the engineers they are not very many.

[00:11:10]This is what I'm going to propose if they kill me then you know that I I have died for I would die like Jesus died for the truth.

[00:11:22]But these people as you will see the impact they will have in agriculture because of what they have done here is is is encourageable.

[00:11:35]Yes, I did literature.

[00:11:39]I can quote for you what Shakespeare said.

[00:11:43]And where he was standing he was looking this way and he said this but this one will not solve the problem of the ticks.

[00:11:50]So I think we the social scientists should be a bit polite.

[00:11:54]And use these our scientists brothers and sisters to build up this economy first.

[00:12:03]And then we can also come in scientists and and record history and literature and and songs and so on.

[00:12:12]When I am going to say When I when I have eaten that's when I I I I I I appreciate fashion.

[00:12:21]I first eat and then I appreciate fashion. So I congratulate the scientist for me I will give you all the support.

[00:12:28]And I would ask You had a rumor that there were members of parliament here.

[00:12:36]Where are these members of parliament?

[00:12:37]Let's see them.

[00:12:39]Come forward.

[00:12:43]Come forward come forward and they see you.

[00:12:52]>> [music] >> So you are you have seen the members of parliament.

[00:13:19]>> [music]