State of the nation address 2026

追加: 2026-06-04

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[00:00:35]>> Your Excellency the President, Article 101 of the 1995 Constitution grants you the mandate to deliver to Parliament and to the nation at the beginning of each session of Parliament your address on the state of the nation. The House is greatly honored by your presence this afternoon. I now take my maiden and singular honor and privilege to invite you, your excellency, to address the nation. Our excellency vice president of Uganda, the right honorable speaker of parliament and all the other leaders and fellow Ugandans.

[00:01:21]I'm again very happy to address you on this occasion.

[00:01:27]of the state of the national address for the year 2026.

[00:01:36]First of all, I thank and congratulate all the Ugandans for having participated in the series of elections ever since the 15th of January 2026.

[00:01:56]and for massively supporting the NLM. Thank you so much, Ugandans.

[00:02:07]Above all, I thank God for all these victories and for the peace in the country in spite of so many evil people that have been plotting to disturb the peace.

[00:02:25]During the presidential address on the in during the presidential inauguration, I put forward a call of no more sleep.

[00:02:40]Some people are already distorting it as just no sleep.

[00:02:46]It is not just no sleep. It is no more sleep.

[00:02:53]And to clarify the message, I should add no more corruption obser when others are digging.

[00:03:11]That's called in our language.

[00:03:14]No more kuza diverting somebody's attention from the real target to a wrong target.

[00:03:30]No mock to hand overburden us when we work and we are just sitting down and no more politeness to non-performers who want leadership for their own ego and personal interests.

[00:03:51]This is the exa no sleep.

[00:03:56]The story of the NRM and Uganda starts in the early 1960s.

[00:04:04]Personally, I started waking up our people our people in 1959 when I visited Barasto farm as a junior secondary one pupil at high school. Having come from the Tungamo area that was democratically outside the money economy and everybody was on working only for the stomach subsistence combined with the school education when we came to know about the enclosure movement in the UK for agriculture.

[00:04:50]the industrial revolution in Europe, etc. by 1965 the sectarian politics of the political groups not withstanding our ideas about the social economic transformation had coalesed.

[00:05:09]It was clear that the small enclave economy of the British of the 3s and 3Ts was a disaster.

[00:05:19]for the majority of the people.

[00:05:23]You want proof?

[00:05:25]Just look at the infant mortality rate in 1962 and the average life expectancy in 1966.

[00:05:37]There were 128 per 10,000 life birth and life expectancy was 46.8 for everybody on the average.

[00:05:56]We soon grasped the importance of having vertically integrated and horizontally integrated national economies.

[00:06:07]In the 20 years of chaos between 1966 and 1986, our views were eventually crystallized.

[00:06:17]The 10 points program of Kanyara.

[00:06:20]Kanyara was where we wrote this document 1984.

[00:06:27]Point number five of those 10 points run as follows in quotes building an independent, integrated, self-sustaining national economy.

[00:06:42]However, for the people to participate in the vertical and horizontal integration of the economy of the country, they had to join the money economy first and move out of the traditional pre-capitalist economy of working for a chida working only for the stomach just subsistence since my nomadic family because my family was nomadic.

[00:07:14]Since my nomadic family had migrated from Tungamo to Nyaboi, it was the good luck of Nyaboi that we started our activities there.

[00:07:29]This these activities.

[00:07:42]These activities involved sensitizing the population of the cattle corridor to stop normism make enclosures around their land sen engage in commercial agriculture with the chura IMAR culturation for profit and maximum returns.

[00:08:09]You can see in the videos. Let let them show us some of the families we started with. If they are there on the videos, their testimony.

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[00:11:36]So there you have the you have the testimony of the some of the families we started with in 1966, end of year.

[00:11:53]That old lady was speaking in Nyangor and she said that when we came to teach them in 1966, we were students having finished A level and we told them to stop. She was saying that they were like the nomadic and if you read our booklets, if you are if you are polite, if you if you can make yourself a bit humble to learn from smaller people like us, then you will see how we urged with those traditional people to stop from normalism stop normalism and and have settled agriculture grow crops and so on.

[00:13:00]Now she was saying that because of the insecurity we had to go away to fight.

[00:13:08]But when we came back 1986 we added the issue of going now not only just being settled but being settled and also doing uh commercial agriculture with the charo.

[00:13:28]That's why we advise them to go into dairy farming because dairy farming was more for small holders and medium people. It was better than beef ranching. Beef ranching needs more land.

[00:13:49]Now that model which started in area has spread to the whole cattle corridor south of the Nile.

[00:14:07]There's a man called Matongo in the Goma area. Let's see what he says.

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[00:15:17]on our farm. We collect over 900 liters of milk per day and a liter costs 800 shillings which is approximately 21 million per mile. So now this is now another side of the cattle corridor Nagasik district but the cattle corridor is continuous from the border with Tanzania in Israel all the way up to northern Uganda.

[00:15:52]But much of the work we have done so far has been was in the south of the Nile from river kajera up to tandongo their board change now that man is in GMA area the infrastructure is not so good but you can see they are having a lot of money they particular one is selling 900 liters of milk per day the price is low. It's not high, but they still get 21 million shillings a month.

[00:16:29]You can see that girl there. She's educated because of the money which the parents have to pay for her in the schools and they have moved from the other small houses which the old lady was showing you to now permanent buildings to live a better life. Now that is the testimony from the cattle corridor. That's why this time really I am no longer interested in non-performers.

[00:17:02]The between 1986 and 1989, we campaigned for prioritizing the enterprise of dairy farming for the small and medium farmers while the big players could continue with the ranching for beef.

[00:17:26]By 1995, the cattle corridor had started changing.

[00:17:33]People getting income per month from from the milk, building better houses, paying school fees for for children in paying schools.

[00:17:45]Indeed, our late Maga Maga is the husband of the other lady whom you saw and father of of General Kavum. Is Kabuma here?

[00:17:57]Is he here?

[00:18:01]He's a big general now.

[00:18:04]Oh, you can see how big he is. There he is.

[00:18:10]Now their family together, the the wife, the one you saw, and the husband who died.

[00:18:21]Indeed, our late comrade Magaga, the father of Kavumar, came to me and told me that he did not know what to do with the money.

[00:18:34]When they started getting money from the milk, he couldn't believe it. He came to me.

[00:18:46]You are you you you are people really you once you say you are a leader you are putting a problem on yourself if you don't become a real leader God will not like you I can show I can assure you of this either you lead or you stay in your home don't try to be a leader when you are not when you don't care about the people so came and said a citizen should be realized Because the milk people are paid every 15 days they they are paid.

[00:19:24]And this had never happened in Magaga's life. She had never seen it that a villager is being paid every 15 days. Being paid money being paid every 15 days.

[00:19:42]That's what she he told me.

[00:19:44]as if I am working in a government a government office and being paid a salary.

[00:19:53]That was the tragedy of Uganda at that time.

[00:19:57]Only the civil civil colonial servants could get regular income.

[00:20:02]This change in the k corridor by the traditional families of abatas s because these people had never gone to school.

[00:20:12]Maga had not had never gone to school.

[00:20:15]His wife had never gone to school to change our tasma. The ones who who never went to school was engineered by us. Engineered by us was against the advice of the professionals. Professionals did not believe we could change these people.

[00:20:37]They were they would tell me you're wasting your time. Those cannot change.

[00:20:43]They were all saying to a man that the kore could not change from their precapist lifestyle to a money economy.

[00:20:52]Moreover, when we are doing this, nobody among the colonial elite would agree to support us.

[00:21:05]It is only who gave us 20 shillings with my colleague Moses Black who died in 1972 in our wars. We used the only person who helped us gave us 20 shillings.

[00:21:22]That's about $3.

[00:21:26]$3 just short of $3 because a dollar that time was seven shillings. a dollar.

[00:21:35]So $3 will be 21 shillings. So when we went to say we going to mobilize to stop normalism, other people refused to help us.

[00:21:47]Gave us 20 shillings with my colleague Mug Black who died in 1972 in our wars. We used seven shillings per person to use Monga's bus from Barat through Humba.

[00:22:06]That was 14 shillings. So out of our 20, we used 14 to come to from Barat.

[00:22:13]Two of us each one seven shillings.

[00:22:16]Muso was a smoker.

[00:22:19]So he took away shillings 120 to buy a packet of sportsman.

[00:22:26]That left us with four shillings 80 cents.

[00:22:32]After holding public meetings at we used the bazaron bus to a place called kong each using shillings one one shilling and 20 cents that is 20 two two shillings and 40 cents.

[00:22:49]In the Katung area, we started moving on foot up to near Nama where we spent the night leaning against the harvested millet.

[00:23:01]When we we the when we spend one of the nights we spent it leaning against the millet of of one of the of the of the of the peasants called Changuru.

[00:23:16]Milit is very comfortable when it is not not threshed when it is in the shift in the shifts.

[00:23:25]After addressing a public meeting at Nama, the group gave us bicycle rides to Mas's place near Rama Shadam.

[00:23:35]Moving on foot, we addressed meetings including a mega one at where there is Caro secondary school. Now you should have seen the grandfathers and other adults listening to these young people.

[00:23:49]I was just 22 years old that time and Mos was just slightly older than me.

[00:23:55]Thereafter we moved on foot out of Zanuka's home that we had made our camp and spent the night at with Minga.

[00:24:13]Thereafter our remaining two two shillings and 40 cents could only take us up to and from there we walked on foot all the way to Bara spending the night at my inong near area. It was now 1967 January and it was time to take up our temporary teaching jobs and get our own money to easily support our voluntary struggle for our people.

[00:24:44]Therefore, when I hear leaders talking of allowances to reach their people and get them out of poverty, I almost get nausea. I I feel like vomiting.

[00:24:56]If you don't know when I look at you the way you do things I really feel very not pleased but I out of politeness I've been keeping quiet but now I'm telling you even those who get government allowances do not go to the field I hear that many just stay in campa mistake is for leaders to give personal money to constituents as you can see here we had no money to to to to give to anybody.

[00:25:29]The only money we had even when we started getting our own salaries was to for bus transport.

[00:25:37]Most of the time I would ride the bicycle from Kazo to Buronga from Buronga through Aura and back. The only fuel I needed was no fat on my body.

[00:25:51]So now you hear a problem. Machief needs a motorcycle. motorcycle for what?

[00:25:57]Let ride a bicycle.

[00:26:03]I'm really sick and tired of that parasitism and that's why I told you that this is exa no more sleep because I've been polite talking thinking that people will learn by example. Uh no, this is the time to talk straight to everybody.

[00:26:23]Why should chief have motorcycle, fuel, money. Let him use a bicycle.

[00:26:32]It is better for him. He will live longer if he rides a bicycle.

[00:26:38]Even a goomba chief, the goombar is not so big. Why should we have fuel? All that work can't be done because there's no money for fuel.

[00:26:50]The only fuel I needed was no fat on my body.

[00:26:55]Would share food and accommodation with our hosts, the population.

[00:27:00]God has kept me here and I am now 82 years old almost. Not exactly but almost in spite of the efforts we expended in the resistance.

[00:27:17]The most important contribution to the people of the cattle corridor was diagnosis diagnosis of their problems and the prescriptions we offered because these people had no money to give them. The only thing we gave them was a correct analysis diagnosis and a prescription.

[00:27:43]They were enough to arouse their enthusias enthusiasm and expectations.

[00:27:48]That was the reason they massively joined the young party we formed in 1980 known as UPM after the parties were again allowed to exist. No money given to them but accurate analysis and prescription that was that was a projected solution and also reaching them.

[00:28:08]You can imagine a 22 year old 22 year old children calling adults grandfathers and they come to these meetings.

[00:28:19]By 1986 the production of milk in Uganda was 200 million liters per month per anam.

[00:28:27]It is now 5.4 4 billion liters saving us US Uganda US US dollars 1.56 billion of imports and earning US dollars 285 million in export earnings. So this work we did did not only help this cattle cattle grow raising families but saved Uganda the import bill of 1.56 billion if we are importing all this milk would Uganda would be spending 1.56 billion.

[00:29:11]Additionally, Uganda is earning now $285 million in export earnings. Uganda used to import tinned condensed milk from as far away as New Zealand, packed pepper milk from Kenya, butter, cheese, yogurt, powdered milk etc from Denmark etc. Uganda now is a big export of all those products. That is our work.

[00:29:42]The people in the cattle corridor need to deepen their work by going away from oxetra free range to growing pasture and endor feeding of cattle, goats and sheep. The only people who indirectly helped us in this were the late king Gashonga and some community leaders like Yazadbe who had mobilized by to come back from where they had been dispersed by the spread of the city flies following the invasion of city flies from Karagua Tanzania in 1918 and after to Visitor in particular is President Eisenhower of the United States who deployed USID to spray against the flies in 1958 using a chemical known as deedin.

[00:30:40]When President Clinton visited us in March 1998, I wanted him to visit the Cro corridor and see the outcomes of the good of the good the USA had done. However, his people preferred to take him to Mono to see pancakes.

[00:30:57]So I wanted him to go and see this this work. But his people said, "No, you go to Mukon and see pancakes." So they went see pancakes. Even me, I went with them.

[00:31:10]Ever since the coming into power of the NRM, we have eradicated the sflies in Chichoga Lango etc. With the shift from free range to endor feeding of the dairy and beef cattle and stopping the primitive practice of property fragmentation after the death of the head of the family, Uganda would overtake countries like the Netherlands, Australia, Argentina in in production levels of diet products, beef, leather, etc. After this success, I started inviting delegations of leaders from other parts of Uganda to visit and learn.

[00:31:56]This is where the question of no more sleep, no more conga, no more, no more, no more politeness to nonp performers comes in because I would invite leaders come please and see this area was like this.

[00:32:14]We have now moved. ities in moving like this and then and they would visit.

[00:32:19]My expectation was that they would go and try to do the same in all our areas in Uganda.

[00:32:28]The county each day delivers to the factories and milk coolers 1.15 million liters of milk per day.

[00:32:42]That county alone, there are 115 milk coolers in Yavo alone, mainly private and there are now 160 milk and milk products factories in the whole of Uganda.

[00:32:59]Having succeeded in the Nyab Kazo area and having been inviting delegations after delegations in 1995, I made a countrywide tour. When exactly this point, I studied the whole country and I recommended the two modes of agriculture.

[00:33:18]Intensive agriculture for people with small pieces of land and extensive agriculture for people with big pieces of land. In the 1996 manifesto, we reduced it into the 4 acres model with seven activities for intensive farming and for other products for the plantations and big farmers with big pieces of land. With four acres or less, you could engage in zero grazing for one acre of pasture with eight frizzian cattle, one acre of coffee, one egg of fruits, one egg of food for the family, poulry for eggs and pig in the backyard and fish farming near the wetlands. With large farming, there was more flexibility.

[00:34:08]You could undertake any or all of these seven that were high income earners even when you do them on a small scale and you could get you could also take on the low value the low returns activities but on a large scale because the country also needs them. These are products like tea, cotton, sugar cane, cattle ranching, etc. The logical question was how do we the cashless people start?

[00:34:48]That was the question once I started talking about this after the 1996 elections. The question was where is the capital to start?

[00:34:57]Immediately 1997 we put in money at the sub county to work as a revolving fund.

[00:35:07]I remember checking in Raga division here in Campala. There was a DP chairperson known as Sadi at that time in that area. That money was already there and I was challenging sad how to use that money to give low interest capital to our people. Since that time we have never relented. NADS in the year 201 Operation Wealth Creation 2013.

[00:35:36]PDM starting with the year 2022 Moga in the year 220 etc. Many families have listened and benefited.

[00:35:48]In my country tours I found a man called Mbo in Sono. Let's see.

[00:35:58][music] [music] Housing estate.

[00:36:57]Where's Zak?

[00:37:23]and Kagaz >> [snorts] >> Now what is saying in rumor which you people don't understand is saying that he was living in the town in a mu trading suburb of Mumbai.

[00:38:21]But when this program came, this one was of I think this was Nads, one of the first ones.

[00:38:30]He got a cow from Nads and was keeping it in Namqu.

[00:38:40]But eventually he got money and bought I think two two acres in Sri Lanko.

[00:38:47]He moved from now he he went back to Sri Bland Zikaf what he was saying the cows I think now they giving like 60 liters is my correct 60 lit or something like that now with the milk not only the milk but also the cowan he went coffee growing.

[00:39:20]We we don't have time to listen to the whole story, but he's doing very well.

[00:39:24]This is MBO who started with Nads long ago.

[00:39:30]Then now you go to there's somebody called Cherimo.

[00:39:45]Uh welcome to this village is called Capen village caporosab county uh buka district.

[00:39:54]Uh I I'm a farmer. I'm doing diary. As you can see I have three cows now but two are producing milk. One is still uh growing. I also have coffee 1,200 trees.

[00:40:12]I have bananas on one acre. I also have fruits, apples specifically and then I have horiculture.

[00:40:21]I am growing vegetables and then I have chicken the local breed but I have 100 so far under poultry unit which we are producing for mill I mean for eggs and also for sale. We really sang our men because when I started this farm I started uh doing this activity farming activity in 2004.

[00:40:45]I did it using my own resources but in 2018 government under operation where restoration they gave us a cow and now this cow so far it has sire three these ones are three year because of the congestion here I've taken them to another annexed farm which I I bought uh these cows here it has assisted me so much as as a farmer because we are getting milk as you can see this one here this One is Ashia. It is now it is it has produced milk for over one year plus. So the milk production has gone down. But so far we are we are getting 10 10 liters a day from this other cow.

[00:41:29]Then this one is a crossbreed local and a crossbreed. We are getting this one gives us 8 lit. So in total these cows give us eight 18 lit per day. this 18 lit when you calculate it with the current market price of 1,800 uh we get like 900,000 every months from these two cows. So next year this all of them are under they are pregnant we expect them to produce in January. So when we get now pig production our milk is going to increase but so far these other two cows is assisting us in payment of fees maintaining the home. We are also getting the bananas which we sell on on weekly basis at least we get like 200 250,000 I mean in a month we get like uh about 1 million from the from the bananas then the coffee coffee is also doing very well so far this year we have already picked five bags of dry parchment and that five bucks when you calculate it to the price of 10,000 that is for 5 million. The coffee is doing very well because of this mixed farming ingredient. We get the the cow done, we get the bioillary and that is what is you can see the bananas are very healthy and also the coffee is doing very well. So that is what we are getting.

[00:42:59]>> That is that is the testimony of cherry mo. I didn't get time to calculate the whole chibaro the whole calculation the milk the 900,000 per per month that would be like 10 million a year then you have the bananas 200,000 per then then you have the coffee but he started benefiting from uh operation we creation let's See now kaze of ginger [music] district mixed farm. Farm Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.

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[00:46:32]>> [music] >> And garden 4 acre model.

[00:47:11]Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.

[00:47:33]Nowhere near ginger.

[00:47:38]Has cows selling 80 liters of milk a day.

[00:47:43]Has coffee.

[00:47:45]Has cocoa.

[00:47:47]Has bananas as you can see. I think he even had pigs. But I we don't have time to see all all that. Now all these some of them he got them from operation creation when it was giving out some of the seedlings.

[00:48:05]Then there are other the my favorite from Abim Kamoja. Let's see that one.

[00:48:16]I am a model farmer in a beam district.

[00:48:21]My village here is called Arangay West.

[00:48:28]Aang parish Abuk town council Abim district in Karamoja.

[00:48:39]The mango trees you are seeing here were given to me by the president through operation wealth creation.

[00:48:51]I received 200 mango seedlings and I planted all and they all doing well.

[00:49:01]Apart from this venture, I got money from PDM last year.

[00:49:10]I got 800,000.

[00:49:15]And I used 800,000 for buying 10 goats.

[00:49:19]And the goats are there. They have multiplied.

[00:49:23]They are now 16.

[00:49:26]Part of the money of PDM I used for buying cava stems.

[00:49:33]Through that money I've managed to plant two acres of cava.

[00:49:42]They are now doing well.

[00:49:44]The first acre I intend to have vest next year in January.

[00:49:53]Then for the mangoes you are seeing I started a vesting last year in 2023.

[00:50:02]The first harvest I got 6 million that was in June.

[00:50:11]Then second harvest in September November not September November I got another 6 million.

[00:50:20]So last year from these mangoes I got 12 million shillings.

[00:50:27]I've been selling to the people around.

[00:50:31]Actually sort fruit factory has booked this mango.

[00:50:36]They want me to take these mangoes tomorrow 2025 to the factory.

[00:50:42]Actually I've been selling locally. I've been selling one at 500 shillings.

[00:50:46]to 1,000 and people are buying these mangoes are very good.

[00:50:52]The mangoes trees you are seeing here are giving me money a lot of money and I want to thank his excellency the president of the republic of Uganda Kaguta Musevani for coming up with the idea of operation wealth creation in the country. This is money. I am not going to suffer. My children will not suffer because of this wealth. I I call it wealth now. I always I don't mango. I invest money not mangoes. So I want to thank our president so much. And uh next year if all goes well I expect to get 18 million first harvest and then second harvest I also expect to get 18 million. So now there you have another Maga in Kamoja cuz you remember Magaga the father of General Kavuma told me that he did not know what to do with the money sent in every 15 days I get money now here you have got this man from saying that I'm not going to suffer My family will not suffer. Bye-bye poverty. He's here speaking in English and he speaks very English. That's why I like that that video with the big farmers and the manufacturers.

[00:52:31]The government has put a total of Uganda shillings 1,600 billion in the UDB because the question was once we started preaching stop working for the stomach only work for the stomach and the pocket.

[00:52:50]Some of the communities in the C corridor they didn't ask for capital.

[00:52:54]They moved without capital. They used their own capital. The only thing we we gave them was advice.

[00:53:03]But in the other areas they didn't have the indig because for them they had indigenous cows. They converted them and they got capital many of them. But in other areas it was not so easy. So that's why we started with the enta and nads and operation we creation and now PDM but this is for the smaller people.

[00:53:31]The question is now how about the big farmers and the manufacturers? Yes, we have not forgotten those. with the big farmers and the manufacturers.

[00:53:45]The government has put a total of Uganda shillings 1 1,600 billion in the UDB.

[00:53:52]The interest rate for that money is 12% peranom.

[00:53:57]The interest rate for PDM is 6% peranom and payable after two years. Hence for shieldings 1 million the borrow will return shieldings 1.2 2 million for PDM.

[00:54:12]We are always creating other funds for the ghettos, for the musicians, etc. So capital is not a problem.

[00:54:22]Unlike the colonial agents who never want to plan for Africa, we have told Ugandans that our economy has got potential in four sectors.

[00:54:40]services, commercial agriculture, manufacturing and ICT.

[00:54:48]The president is here, parliament is here.

[00:54:54]Once people have woken up from sleep and they want low cost capital, if the shillings 100 million per parish per peram or any other funds is not enough, we can increase the money by adjusting from other areas.

[00:55:14]With the C corridor, we did not wait for low interest capital. As already said, our only contribution to them was the word in the C corridor.

[00:55:25]The work there was like the one with the Bible. In the beginning, there was the word. The word was God. There we just used the word.

[00:55:35]In the other areas, we use the word and the capital is there.

[00:55:39]Small capital for small things, big capital for big things.

[00:55:49]Their advice was to go from normalism in agriculture to go from chunka to working for the stomach and for the pocket and do so with the chibaro.

[00:56:00]Additionally in the cattle corridor I gave 20 milk coolers that had been brought by Danida.

[00:56:07]That was all. They converted their indigenous anchor cattle into half breeds a biwa with fzians and they took off.

[00:56:18]However, wealth creation cannot take place if there is no peace, no law and no law and order and supportive infrastructure in the country.

[00:56:33]The UPDF always guarantees peace in the country. The police and judiciary must ensure law and order.

[00:56:41]The NLM has struggled to tack. So with infrastructure, our score card is is is is clear and must not be allowed to be spoiled.

[00:56:54]The NLM has struggled to the core national roads from north at Oraba, Aru, Nim, and Mingo.

[00:57:07]in the north. These are all linked by tamak roads.

[00:57:12]Then the tamach roads continue continuous from the north through the campa area to kachumba katuna chanka and bunagana in the south.

[00:57:29]The mistake has been by the ministry of works to allow these roads to deteriorate and then we start to doing heavy work afterwards.

[00:57:39]The new ministers must ensure I don't want to see what happened to some of the roads like the fort road but there's a story about that for poor road there's a story of corruption that road I hope the new team will deal with that issue.

[00:57:59]We have turned the road from east to west from Busya, Roa, Swam, Amdat all the way to Pondway, Busonga and Isasha in the west.

[00:58:12]This does not include the tarmac roads linking to the water bodies that are also transport connections such as ginger because when you have the tarmac road up to ginger you go into the water you cross by fansa to wherever you want to go majangi portava the tamak roads going up to these water bodies We are revamping the meter gauge railway and building the standard gauge one. We are working with Kenya and Tanzania on the pipelines for the crude petroleum products and for the refined petroleum products. This will move cargo, heavy cargo away from the roads to the railway and petroleum products from the roads to the pipeline.

[00:59:11]In the coming years, you will no longer see tankers on the road. Petrol tankers, they should not be on the road.

[00:59:21]Petrol should go by pipe.

[00:59:24]should not be competing with with with with with cars that leaves the roads for only passengers and light cargo. The madam roads must be maintained always where the where the the three billion shillings per district which we send chum cham they just eat it.

[00:59:56]If it is not enough why not bring up the matter.

[01:00:03]You the members of parliament, if you think that the three billion per district is not enough, bring it up and we cut money from somewhere and we make sure the roads are worked on instead of just keeping quiet and you find the madam the madam road from from from my village in Bi was terrible.

[01:00:30]It was very bad. cannot been maintained for a long time.

[01:00:37]Therefore, the NLM has identified all the requirements for building a prosperous Uganda.

[01:00:46]The NM has also provided for the means for individuals, families or companies that want to be part of the social economic transformation story. As I was, as I've said before, our mission has been to ensure that the individuals, the families or the companies that listen to our message are assisted to be wealth and jobs creators.

[01:01:13]Right from the beginning, we realized that the internal factors are crucial but not enough to ensure the social economic transformation of Uganda. We need to answer the question in quotes.

[01:01:30]If the individuals, families or companies create wealth and produce products and services in four sectors of commercial agriculture, manufacturing, services and ICT, is the internal market enough?

[01:01:47]Is the internal market enough of these African countries? Our answer was no. The internal market cannot be enough.

[01:01:58]Indeed, if the internal markets were enough, why would a country like China with 1.3 billion people or India, India with 1.4 billion people be looking for external markets?

[01:02:22]Hence, ever since the 1960s, we have been having a Panaffrican agenda on top of the patriotic agenda within Uganda.

[01:02:33]The Panaffrican agenda was aimed at the economic integration of the whole of Africa in a continental market and for the political integration within East Africa leading to the political federation of East Africa.

[01:02:49]The economic integration would deal with the prosperity of the African people while the political integration of the parts of Africa that are compatible would deal with the strategic security of Africa especially defense on land, in the air, at sea and in space.

[01:03:05]Therefore, for the wealth creators of Uganda, most of the factors are in place now.

[01:03:13]That is why we are now saying no more sleep, no more conger leaning on your while others are working. No more gooas diverting people's attention. No more corruption and no more politeness to non-performers who want leadership for ego and personal interests.

[01:03:39]We must ensure that house to house ought in our language ensure that for the families with the land they get into the money economy with the ones without land their solution is skills.

[01:04:04]Indeed, we also need to know that with increasing population, it will be neither possible nor necessary for everybody to have land. That is why there are other sectors manufacturing and artisanship services, ICT, eg transport, entertainment, ICT, EG, BPOS. In the developed countries, very few people own land.

[01:04:36]I saw in the negative monitor newspaper an article by an individual known as GA who is always writing menaciously and maliciously saying that Uganda has been wandering in the desert for 40 years like the children of Israel.

[01:04:54]Those who are wandering in the desert are partly those who listen to those liars.

[01:05:00]If you listen to the liars, you will wonder in the desert.

[01:05:03]It is true that many of the leaders do not amplify this message of how people can get out of poverty. However, those who do change their lives, I understand GA comes from Bugu area, let him visit Mama Abton and her husband council. Let's see if you have her.

[01:05:35]>> [music] [music] >> Paris County district.

[01:06:43]External field extension workers.

[01:06:58]MB You know when they speaking when they are speaking they speak in their own way.

[01:07:54]But I can for everything. So they had some local pigs before but when PDM came they bought the modern ones they speak also mix it with kara is or what?

[01:08:19]No is a bit different. So the now the they have pigs they have also seok I didn't know anything about seoko myself they're the ones who who exposed me so once the people get capital they will do their own things like like napono there Uganda has gone through five phases of positive development these are the recovery phase of bringing back some of the three C's and three T's of the colonial enchive economy and ending the informalization of the economy into Mendo Mendo Chibanda and that was smuggling forex black market and speculation following the destruction of the economy by Idiamin expanding the economy diversifying it that is how the D sector changed the cattle corridor and the cava is changing in many parts of Uganda.

[01:09:28]These are totally new cash products very addition some of the raw materials eg gold and the knowledge economy of the automobiles vaccines computers etc. What is high sounding sloganering there?

[01:09:42]Because that's what the other gentleman was saying that just slogans. These are achievements on the ground.

[01:09:49]Let's go to nearby industrial park.

[01:09:53]Show us the industrial park.

[01:10:18]How can you call that a slogan? Is that a slogan?

[01:10:22]That is slogan.

[01:10:27]I think now they were saying there were like more than 80 factories there, 12,000 workers in that area.

[01:10:40]These are achievements on the ground.

[01:10:43]Let Gawa go nearby in bar industrial park. How can how can such a park be a desert where there's no water or PC or production? Yes, there are problems of the issues like drugs in health centers.

[01:11:00]That is why another time I will talk more about this the issue of service delivery.

[01:11:05]That is why the NLM introduced democracy from the very beginning by getting people to elect the committees of the resistance councils especially in the book area. Foba FBA the group of who are saying they were following started killing those elected leaders until we crushed FOBA elect people who help in exposing those mistakes. You have the power.

[01:11:34]another time I I'll speak about that because the the parishes are in Uganda and everywhere there is local leadership especially the sub county and they are counelors why should things go wrong when when all those leaders are there of course even the government is also responsible because they are the goss the goss in every sub county why would things go wrong and They just doesn't to know and they do. So the facts of the matter are that with the limited waking up where 67% of the homesteads as compared to 9 because in 1962 only 9% of the people were in the money economy only 9%.

[01:12:28]When I checked in 2013, only 32% were in the money economy.

[01:12:35]But as we speak now, 67% of the homesteads are in the money economy.

[01:12:45]And Uganda has graduated from the least developed countries to a lower middle income country.

[01:12:51]Our GDP rose from 3.9 billion 1986 to now 69.3 billion by forex exchange method and 197.1 billion by the PPP method.

[01:13:12]The GDP per capita has risen to US dollars 1,278 while the threshold for lower for lower middle income status is $1,136.

[01:13:39]Household poverty has declined from 56% in 1992 to now 16.1%.

[01:13:49]Life expectancy was 43 years 1986. It was 46 in 1992 but it had come down to 43 by 1986 because of the chaos which I mean created.

[01:14:05]It had come from 43. It is now 68 68 years.

[01:14:26]The infant mortality rate was 122 for 1,000 born alive. It is now 36 for 1,000 born alive. In other words, our economy has expanded more than 17 times in the last 40 years of recovery, expansion, diversification, body addition, entering the knowledge economy and transformation.

[01:14:53]This year the economy is projected to grow at 6.4% and the next year the GDP will grow to by 10%.

[01:15:05]pushing the size of the economy to US dollars 80 billion.

[01:15:11]All this is before the start of the flow of our commercial oil. The last 15 years alone, the country has added 31 new products to the export basket.

[01:15:25]Uganda now exports manufactured goods including pharmaceuticals, refined gold, steel, ICT products, ceramics, plastics, the diary products already talked about.

[01:15:41]Uganda's exports have reached US dollars 18 billion in the 12 month ending in March 2026.

[01:16:00]The 67% of the people that have listened to our messages and friends from outside that have invested here have turned our economy into a country of surpluses.

[01:16:14]Milk 5.4 billion liters from 200 million liters in 1986.

[01:16:21]Fish 737,000 coffee 9.3 million60 kilogram bags from 2 million bags in 1986 76,000 metric tons of cocoa cement from about 5,000 tons to 7 million metric tons of cement maze from 200,000 to 5 million metric tons bananas from 6.6 million to 11 million metric tons. Cassava from 3.5 million to 4.5 million metric tons. Sugar from 150,000 to 700,000 metric tons.

[01:17:05]We are now set for further and faster growth and transformation with electricity. We have moved from 60 megawatt in 1986 to now 298 megawatt. We are however aiming at 50,000 megawatt from hydro, solar, gas, wind, nuclear and geothermal.

[01:17:30]Therefore, all the leaders must ensure that those programs are downloaded in the next five years. All the households with with land must get the low interest capital in the form of PDM. You the leaders you must ensure this. You must go after the parish levels.

[01:17:54]You may not vis parish but you call the parish chiefs at the constituency level and make sure they do their work. If they don't do their work, we shall suck all of them.

[01:18:06]There's already 557 million in the parish. I was saying 800 million in the other address but there now the because when the PDM started initially they sent less than 100 million per year. So they are now saying the money which is in the parish including the one of payback is 557 million in the parish and it has reached 3.7 million households. We are going to put shillings 100 million plus 15 million for the leaders per anam per parish in the rural areas and shillings is 300 300 million plus 15 million for the leaders per ward in the towns Uganda shilling 7 760 billion has gone for the yoga operating from the constituency level where is that money how many and which yoga associations are benefited from this There's one of the young people was involved with the maman.

[01:19:14]Fortunately, fortunately, he was elected as a member of parliament for kasand area. Misaso is is maso here.

[01:19:26]or I'm not allowed to because I'm I'm not allowed to speak to say anything and the other people are not supposed to to stand up or walk or what is it so here ah that's how looks like he knows about that man thank you on account of peace some traders have generated a lot of capital through imports. These are the ones that built arcades real estate. There's a young lady called Nantza that is always showcasing on on UBC the different real estate developers. Can we see Nantza?

[01:20:10]If you have captured her, she's always showing how rich people are.

[01:20:18]Let her speak also. Where is she? You have suppressed her. Those those are all real estate built by your people.

[01:20:40]Where is Nant? you suppressed her cuz I've been watching her her show every Sunday. She's always showing.

[01:20:54]So there's poverty in Uganda, but there's also wealth because those are Ugandans.

[01:21:01]Those are Ugandans.

[01:21:14]A Ugandan retainer from abroad was recently trying to buy a flat in the campa area and they were demanding US dollars 1.2 2 million Uganda who has come from outside came back you know the when people are outside they think that Uganda is in poverty so this Ugandan came back was looking for a flat and the flats were selling at $1.2 $2 million.

[01:21:49]And uh as she she was as she was trying to mobilize the money, the resident Ugandan had bought all the flats. When only she came back, they said, "Sorry, all the flats are are sold." She was amazed that me the diaspora, I don't have money. These Ugandans with the STE have a lot of money.

[01:22:16]She was amazed at how rich some of the Ugandans are. The middle class is coming up. The question is what sort of middle class are we witnessing coming up? Are they the compi that are agents of foreign interests or support or importers, commission agents, etc. or are they the national bwazi that build the capacity of the country through being big or small farmers, manufacturers, service providers and ICT operators.

[01:22:53]Let us therefore move. No more sleep, no more conga, no more corruption, no more gumaza, no more politeness towards non-performers. This one it is actually I have been polite enough. I don't I don't people all the non-performers must leave leadership.

[01:23:23]Leadership is not for ego but for people and country. In agriculture it is possible to have pan Ugandan rural transformation.

[01:23:34]In the exos area I have nine villages with 248 homesteads. Now as of today all the 2048 homesteaders have joined the money economy with coffee, bananas, dair farming, goat rearing and poultry. Let me see my areas if you have got some [music] Sorry.

[01:24:27]Okay.

[01:24:49]Soch.

[01:25:18]foreign speech.

[01:26:00]president.

[01:26:21]When I first went when I first went to in 1990, they were all democratically poor.

[01:26:35]They had no idea of money.

[01:26:38]I would go very early in the morning to see my cows and by 9 they would be sitting in the trading centers on the verandas.

[01:27:00]They are just there.

[01:27:03]They are doing what?

[01:27:14]Money is not seen.

[01:27:17]That's what they would do. They would ask me for money.

[01:27:21]So I really started fighting with those people. So please donate your own money.

[01:27:28]Now I'm very glad that all the initially the homesteaders were 1,300 I think. Now they are 24,448.

[01:27:38]They all are in the money economy.

[01:27:42]I don't want to to be in a parish where their homes where people are in poverty and they just contented.

[01:27:53]I visited a parish in Rubiri many some years ago called Dangaro.

[01:28:04]There are 2,500 homesteads and they were all poor, no money, very rich area. It's a a volcanic area with very very fatile soil. But the advice what of what to do?

[01:28:25]They said, "Ah, we are all poor here except one man called Katea who had seven pigs.

[01:28:37]This is the one who was rich.

[01:28:53]This is terrible.

[01:28:55]And you find the leaders, the political leaders, even the church leaders. I I started calling with the church leaders.

[01:29:07]I went to Chonyi in Tungamu.

[01:29:12]This what they call bring to God.

[01:29:21]I saw one woman bringing one egg that he's bringing the one egg to God after one year.

[01:29:31]Walking very very very very humble as if as if she's going to heaven that time.

[01:29:37]This is terrible. You cannot have people like this.

[01:29:43]Please honor members allow me to show you that woman of rubies again.

[01:29:48]That God called what? one. The one over [music] district president Uganda.

[01:30:41]Now that's the statement I want you to capture that she was 64 years that time but she had never owned anything in her life.

[01:30:50]You imagine that what sort of society and he has got she has got children then what how would the family behold you the other time appe again of >> [music] >> My town council.

[01:31:47]district.

[01:31:49]>> Uh her name is Auiki, a resident of Aling Rel Council in L district.

[01:32:03]She got the money for PDM in 2023.

[01:32:11]970,000 and then 30,000 remained in the bank.

[01:32:18]She she planted maze.

[01:32:23]She bought maze of 15 circuits.

[01:32:29]>> 30,000 each each circuit.

[01:32:36]She she she used it actually she planted it in in 3 acres of land.

[01:32:46]Preparing the garden cost her 150 for 4 for the 3 acres.

[01:32:54]Wedding cost her 50,000.

[01:32:59]Then spraying cost her 40,000 time for [screaming] 10 to the story of Aio.

[01:33:12]She had been married for 20 years and she has got other children like 18 and so on, teenagers.

[01:33:23]But she had never handled 1 million shillings in her life.

[01:33:28]She did not have land.

[01:33:31]When she got land, she didn't even when she got the 1 million shillings, she didn't have her own land.

[01:33:42]shall to go and hire three acres from somebody else, grow maze, sell the maze, put some of the money went back into agriculture and then buy those sheep, the ones you saw.

[01:34:01]When I was there in the campaign, she told me she had now 60 sheep.

[01:34:06]Then me, I didn't know about sheep. say who who buys who who buys sheep. She the one who told me that no South Sudan like sheep they buy. So these people our our people are really clever people if they if they are supported they even know things we don't know I didn't know sheep that sheep sheep I even dreaming in my dream I can't dream sheep but for her she knew that sheep has got a market in South Sudan nabu I don't know who buys seoko I have no idea but they So what they lack is support.

[01:34:52]So therefore I want the model.

[01:34:56]I don't want to live in a parish where there are poor people. That's what I told them.

[01:35:08]I want to go to heaven.

[01:35:11]I don't want the angels to block me. say you an exosi you are neighboring poor people you kept quiet so I must tell you I told them now you can you saw you saw the the house of let's see that that man show us his house his coffee show us again the man of ah see the house see the car house bar coffee that's how they they are now so the lead leadership is not for ego but for the people and the country in agriculture it is possible to have an Ugandan rural transformation in the exposed area I have nine villages with 2 48 homestead Now as of today all the 20 48 hosted I joined the money economy with coffee bananas diary farming goat rearing and poultry you didn't show my manager Narwanga do you don't you have her picture Uh I' I've got a girl whom I educated from P2. She went to N. Now she's the one managing the these people don't like my useful people.

[01:37:16]In the C corridor, most of the original families have joined the money economy through the direct economy. In order to stabilize agriculture, we are addressing the issue of irrigation.

[01:37:38]Apart from the big irrigation schemes such as Moubuku, Doho, etc., we are developing many micro solar powered irrigation schemes.

[01:37:48]Working with the British group known as Nexus Green.

[01:37:53]As we speak, they have worked with government to put solar powered irrigation schemes in Angola, Cere Buka, Amoratar, Qua, Apach, Casand, Masaka, Mukono.

[01:38:14]In con those are some of the irrigation schemes.

[01:38:20]In conclusion, however, the two residual problems with the peasantry are, as I pointed out above, some of them still relying on oxetra free range which underutilizes the land.

[01:38:35]A square mile of well cleared farm, no bushes, no mrubs, no acacia will cater for 300 longhorn cattle including the calves with pasture growing and zero grazing. A square mile will cater for 6,000 cattle.

[01:38:55]6,000 cattle can be fed by a square mile of where you grow the pasture.

[01:39:05]With free range you need three acres for one cow.

[01:39:10]With zero grazing one acre can support eight freezian catro and 12 ones. We are aggressively sensitizing them on this.

[01:39:20]The other residual issue is the primitivity of poverty fragment fragmentation in the form of inheritance after the head of the family has died.

[01:39:36]These recent arrivals from poverty need to be sensitized about family companies instead of individual inheritance.

[01:39:47]With these measures and those earlier mentioned, we shall have massive production and will also create jobs for hundreds of millions of Ugandans and the Africans from the neighboring countries.

[01:40:00]All this is before you add manufacturing services and ICT. In this speech, I've spent more time on agriculture.

[01:40:10]Agriculture agriculture. It's not because I don't know. I don't I don't I'm I'm not aware of the other sectors but this is where many of our people can all move more easily. This why I'm emphasizing it especially for you the new members of parliament.

[01:40:30]Now the the main in conclusion the main problem I have seen in all these 65 years when I have been active it has been ignorance and Africans under themselves they like other what other they like what other people do they don't know how useful what they do is our our friend Basanga.

[01:41:05]Show them Basanga again.

[01:41:12][music] [music] Johnson, managing director of our Ja Farm. Uh Japan municipality district 2007 by 100 ft.

[01:42:06]Five. President 2010.

[01:42:54]billion.

[01:43:02]So president Now that is the story of Basanga.

[01:43:25]How he listened to my message in 2007 and started with a small plot for poultry and eggs.

[01:43:35]is now selling 2,000 trays per day earning 20 million shillings a day.

[01:43:44]Now during during I think during the campaign or one of those times I was showing these pictures these videos people in UK where Ugandans in diaspora were watching they watch even the ones who are in the diaspora.

[01:44:02]So when they they they they saw me showing Basanga earning 20 million shillings a day seven is telling lies. How can anybody in Uganda earn 20 million shillings a day?

[01:44:21]Let's go and see. People people came from UK to come and see. They say this picture which showed was taken somewhere else.

[01:44:33]It's not in Uganda.

[01:44:35]So they came Ugandans from UK. They came to to to check the lie of how can Ugandans earn 20 million shings a day?

[01:44:51]How can somebody earn 20 million sh a day? So they came and they visited. They were shocked to know that what I was saying was actually true.

[01:45:04]Now they have actually invited Basango to go and become a lecturer there in the diaspora to go and visit them.

[01:45:14]He came and told me said they invited me the diaspora have invited me. They didn't believe this where the problem is.

[01:45:23]And when we are talking about these things at in the school in 1960s they say ah is a communist is not they didn't believe they didn't believe that anor cut were useful they were teaching in the school that anor cows are neither good for meat nor for milk really but I grew with the cows I said go to hell I will never leave the cows you want to see them you show them my cows How can people now these are the most precious the other day Raaposa sold one of our cars for 200 million shillings 187 million.

[01:46:16]So this is what I have seen. I think the main problem is ignorance and not having confidence in oneselves. I think this is the really the main problem to find people going to work in Dubai. What are you going to do in Dubai? A desert.

[01:46:36]Dubai. Dubai. Dubai. What are you going to do in Dubai?

[01:46:40]When I go there, I pray that I come back quickly.

[01:46:45]the the temple, the the climate, the what you leave paradise. See, this is paradise.

[01:46:52]You go to work in in those places.

[01:46:57]If you complex, ignorance, poor leadership, uprooted, people who have no roots. I am rooted here.

[01:47:07]My roots are here. There's nothing I don't know. I grew with our culture. I'm able to know what is what is should should be forgotten because it was not scientific enough but much of it is correct and can be updated.

[01:47:26]So with these few words I present the government's legislative program to the parliament.

[01:47:42]It is in in annex one here. No annex two.

[01:47:49]Uh there are so many bills which I will prime minister will represent parliament. The ministers will represent the bill for building substances, the small arms, light weapons control, amendment of universities and other tertiary institutions and there are so many of them here.

[01:48:12]The laws I represent, my ministers will represent parliament.

[01:48:17]There are there are so many 38 of them 38 beers we should be presented. Right honorable speaker I present [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Download the app on App Store or Google Play Store now. Vision Digital Experience, the future of media.

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