Local Council election victories

prove correctness of NRM

ideology

by

H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

STATE HOUSE ENTEBBE

16th July, 2018

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Dear Countrymen and Countrywomen, especially the
Bazukulu.

Again, I greet you. Thanks for responding to my two long

messages on the social - media and mobile money taxes. I
will send an additional message later.

Today, however, I would like to add to my message of

11thJuly 2018 when I congratulated the Ugandans and the
NRM members in particular on their massive participation in
the Women Council and LCI elections that took place on the
4th and the 10th of July 2018 respectively. There was,
apparently, massive participation and the NRM won
massively in both elections.

With the Women Councils' elections, out of the total of 303,

460 positions, the NRM won a total of 256,100 positions,
which is 84.5%, while the Independents, many of them NRM
leaning but contesting the fairness of the NRM primaries,
won 27,069 positions, constituting 8.9%; and the opposition
Parties won a total of 20,291 positions constituting 6.6%.
With the LCI elections, there are 54,713 villages that voted,
out of a total of 60,774 villages. The NRM has won a total of
37,496 villages, constituting 69%, the Independents have
won 11,685 villages, constituting 21% and many of them are
NRM leaning; the opposition Parties won a total of 5,532
villages, constituting 10%.

This massive win by the NRM is in spite of very active and

sustained media demonization of the NRM by the social
media users, the enemy paper, the Monitor, some Radio and
TV stations, not to forget some elements in the opposition

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Parties. Some of the elements have even gone to the extent of
murdering Ugandans - Sheikhs, women, children, State
officials like Kagezi and Kaweesi as well as ordinary villagers
like the ones murdered on the New Year. All those liars,
charlatans and criminals thought that by these methods,
they would make the People hate the NRM or fear to
associate with it. These liars, charlatans and criminals forget
two things. One thing they forget is that Ugandans,
especially the village people, are not fools and they are
honest. They are not easy to deceive. When you go to
Acholibur, just South of Kitgum, where a new long tarmac
road, all the way from near Packwach, passes and you say
the NRM Govt has done nothing, the villagers can easily tell
who the liar is. That is the same story all over the country.
Secondly, these liars, charlatans and criminals forget that
there is God who sees everything.

When you deceive yourself by thinking that you will use the
Radio, social- media, the Church etc to turn black into white
and vice-versa, you should know that the Omnipotent, the
Omniscient and the Omnipresent is there and will hold you
accountable. In the last 58 years, since 1960, I have seen
people here in Uganda squandering their opportunity by not
being truthful to Uganda, to Africa, to God.

As Christians, our core belief is captured in the Creed of the

Apostles. It goes as follows, for those who are not Christians:

“I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

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 born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
He descended to the dead.
On the third day He rose again;
He ascended into heaven,
He is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen."

One God in Trinity, the resurrection of the dead as Jesus did

after He was crucified by Pontius Pilate and eternal life are
some of the core points.

Similarly, for politics, we in the NRM, believe in the four

principles:

1. Patriotism (against sectarianism of religion or tribe or

gender chauvinism);

2. Pan-Africanism- the integration of Africa economically

and, where possible, also politically to create more

capable political units in global terms, so as to

address our prosperity and strategic security;

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3. Social - economic transformation- transforming our

pre-capitalist society into a society of the middle class

and the skilled working class;

4. and democracy- ultimate power to the People, not just to

the inter-mediaries; democracy of substance, not just form.

In order to implement the four principles, we have identified

the 10 strategic bottlenecks:

These are:
I. Ideological disorientation;
II. A weak State, especially the army, that needed strengthening;
III. Under-developed infrastructure (the railways, the roads, the
electricity, the telephones, piped water, etc.);
IV. The underdevelopment of the human resource (lack of
education and poor health for the population);
V. Interfering with the private sector (either by policy or by
corruption);
VI. A fragmented African market on account of colonialism;
VII. Exporting unprocessed raw materials and, therefore, getting
little money and losing jobs and lack of industrialization;
VIII. The underdevelopment of the services sector (hotels,
banking, transport, insurance, tourism, etc);
IX. The underdevelopment of agriculture;
X. The attack on democracy.

All these strategic bottlenecks need to be resolved, more or

less, concurrently. We are sure that we have distilled both
the principles and identified the strategic bottlenecks
correctly. That is why even their partial addressing produces
dramatic results like the average of 7% rate of annual growth
of the economy for the last 32 years. Now that we have
identified and addressed all the bottlenecks, our rate of
growth will be even more dramatic. No wonder some centres

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in the World are already saying that Uganda will be the
fastest growing economy in the whole World by 2026. Stated
above is our creed and the strategic action points that will
help us to actualize our principles.

What is the creed of the other political parties and other

groups, including the so called civil society, in relation to
Uganda, to Africa and to our survival as the free peoples of
Africa? These groups try to use the media to undermine the
creed of the NRM and discredit its action points. What is
their creed and why? Our creed and action points are in
order to ensure the prosperity and strategic security of the
Africans so as to ensure their survival as free people, as
already stated above.

The good thing with modern politics is that we normally write

down our plans. By writing down our plans, we preserve for
posterity our correctness or our superficiality. By our own
words, we condemn ourselves or vindicate ourselves.

Indeed, Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "For by

your words you will be justified, and by your words you will
be condemned." Matthew 12: 25 and 37.
In spite of the hate campaign by the anti- NRM groups, the
People know the truth as already said. That is how the
People recently shocked the opportunists.

China, today, is the 2nd biggest economy in the whole world.

This was due to the clarity of thinking of its leaders, starting
with Chairman Mao Tse Tung, all the way to Deng Xiaoping.

Quite early, Mao Tse Tung, although a communist,

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enunciated the unity of the 4 classes: the National
bourgeoisie, the peasants, the proletariat and the urban
petite bourgeoisie that were seen as playing a positive role in
the growth of China.

To be excluded from this alliance were the land lords and the
comprador (agent) bourgeoisie. The latter two were parasitic
and not adding anything to the prosperity of the country. On
the contrary, they were the agents of foreign interests. The
land lords were parasites because they were scheming off
part of the sweat of the peasants for themselves selfishly and
were undermining production. Yet, the national bourgeoisie,
although capitalist, were adding to the wealth of the country.
The workers (the proletariat) were adding to the wealth of the
country through their labour. The Comprador bourgeoisie
were the greatest enemies of China because they were sellers
of imported goods and were, most of the time, acting in the
interests of foreigners who did not want China to stand up.
In our own situation, who are the Comprador bourgeoisie
and who are the national bourgeoisie?

Certainly, the Commission agents and the importers of

foreign goods are the Comprador bourgeoisie. How about the
national bourgeoisie? Certainly, the Mulwanas (milk and
plastics), the Mahdivanis (sugar, tea, steel, tourism), Mr. Lv
Wei Dong of Guangzhou Dongsong Energy Group (steel,
fertilizers, glass etc), the big farmers like myself , the
scientists (the Murangas, the Kyamuhangires, the Musasizis,
the Tickodris etc) are either part of the national bourgeoisie
or part of the petty bourgeoisie with a potential for growth.

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The peasants, although not part of the national bourgeoisie,
contribute greatly to the wealth of the country by producing
their own food and, in quite a number of cases, producing
food for others (maize, bananas, milk, potatoes, cassava,
beans etc ) and also other commercial crops such as
beverages (coffee, tea, cocoa etc). Practically, the national
bourgeoisie, the patriotic petty bourgeoisie, the equivalent of
the proletariat and the peasants, are engaged in activities
that add to the wealth of the country.

When we talk of the national bourgeoisie, do not think only

in racial terms. You actually have black Ugandans who are
playing a comprador role, while, on the other hand, you have
non-black Ugandans, or even foreigners playing the patriotic
role of the national bourgeoisie of manufacturing goods here
and, therefore, enhancing the dependence of Uganda and not
enhancing her independence on foreign interests. It is not
the colour that matters but the category of the activities one
is engaged in.

Before we leave the issue of the comprador bourgeoisie, I

cannot forget two points. No.1, the importer’s portion of the
comprador bourgeoisie, at least, atone for their sins by
paying taxes: Customs duty (25% or more for the whole of
East Africa), Excise duty and, eventually, other consumer
taxes. The import taxes alone, bring in Ug. Sh 5.234 trillion
per year. Being an importer of whatever category of jobs, you
do not have to suffer eternal damnation in the African court
of patriotism. As long as you are conscious of the needs for
the battle of national salvation, you can start off as an
importer, accumulate enough capital taking advantage of our

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purchasing power, when you are ready, you go into
manufacturing or other energy conserving activities e.g.
hotels.

Dangote in Nigeria, apparently, started off as a cement

importer. He, eventually, became a big cement manufacturer
in Nigeria and other African countries. When I visited South
Korea, I was informed of Samsung. In the 1930s, this
gentleman was importing textiles in Korea. He, eventually,
became a big electronics company, manufacturing TVs,
radios, computers etc. Even some of our own importers,
especially the non-Africans, are following this path. There is,
for instance, Tirupati. He was so poor when he came here
that he used to sleep in the Temple of the Hindus but he was
a hawker (Mutembeyi) during the day- selling imported
items. He is now a big housing properties’ owner.

There is another young man that I met recently. He has been

importing some products into Uganda for about 20 years. He
is now assembling TVs here and manufactures electric pasis
(flat irons) here. There is, therefore, a path to salvation for
the comprador bourgeoisie that are in imports.

Politically and ideologically, the parasitic groups use

sectarianism of religion or tribes or promote gender
chauvinism (looking down upon women, neglecting the
youth). The pro- national groups counter with the four
principles: nationalism, Pan-Africanism, social- economic
transformation and real democracy of the masses like we
saw recently in the Women and LCI elections.

The venom of the unfair media and social- media attacks on

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the NRM exposes the intentions of some of these groups.

It is also important for the NRM leaders to understand all

this and help as many of our youth to enter the productive
sectors of the economy: Commercial agriculture;
manufacturing (big and small); some of the services that
build our energies, not those that cause us unjustified
haemorrhage and ICT services that promote the growth of
our economy- not those that cause us haemorrhage. It is
clear, for instance, that Games betting, using machines that
are owned by foreigners, social- media conversations, using
foreign owned telephone companies and imports of non-
essential goods (whiskies, luxury cars, human hair etc) or
even essential goods that can be made here (furniture, shoes,
textiles, carpets, curtains, soaps, some food items etc) are
part of the Comprador activities. These haemorrhage causers
must be understood and phased out by policy actions such
as the Buy Uganda, Build Uganda (BUBU).

The so called civil society that are funded by foreigners,

including foreign Governments, are definitely part of the
Comprador bourgeoisie that should not be allowed to meddle
in our politics. They have, however, been heavily involved in
our politics, even daring to fund local traitors to try and
disorient our political direction.

Following the colonization of Uganda in 1900, a parasitic

class of landlords was created by the British in their scheme
to have local agents here. Nevertheless, even the British, by
1924-8, had realized the parasitism of the group they had
created. They decided to tame the group with Busuulu and
Nvujjo Decree of 1928. Amin abolished that law in his crude

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ways without, of course, dialogue. When our time came to
comment on that law in 1994, I advised our People to go for
a win-win way: do not allow the eviction of peasants but do
not dispossess the land lords without compensation and
negotiations. However, some of those elements, propelled by
incredible blindness, do not care or appreciate our calculated
and balanced solution. They collude with corrupt
Magistrates, Policemen etc and evict our people, the very
people that sacrificed so much for the recovery of Uganda in
the form of the Luwero Triangle war and other struggles. At
the same time, using the media, some of those groups
demonize the NRM, hoping that it will collapse and leave the
political scene so that they can re-impose their parasitic
system.

On account of the lack of vigour on the NRM side, our youth

are bombarded with wrong ideas on the social- media, the
TV's and the Newspapers.
As already said, the NRM leaders should not allow idleness
among our youth or allow them to be used by the comprador
interests in the form of the pseudo- Civil Society. They
should all be assisted to go into the four sectors: commercial
Agriculture; factories (big and small); energy conserving or
energy enhancing services, not the haemorrhage causing
ones; and ICT , always remembering the energy conserving
or energy enhancing and avoiding the haemorrhage.

The NRM has already succeeded in establishing the stability

that Uganda lacked so as to bring out its huge potential that
is already crystallizing. What is this huge potential that is
crystallizing?

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1. First of all, the growing purchasing power of the Ugandans
which today stands at US$ 95.45 billions. In the recent past,
US$ 7 billion of this was being spent on imports per annum.
Recently, on account of some import substitution measures,
this has declined to US$ 5 bn. This should be reduced
further by exhausting the list of products that can be
produced here so that we do not have to import them- reduce
the haemorrhage to the unavoidable. At the same time, we
should enhance our export potential so that we attract more
blood from outside. The purchasing power is by Ugandans
spending money from their pockets. We are advising them to
spend that money on products produced within Uganda so
that we keep the money here but also create jobs for our
children instead of just creating jobs for others by importing
more than we need to do.

2. The NRM has discovered for the Ugandans the huge and
large spectrum of the natural resources of Uganda. On top of
the agriculture potential which does not need amplification,
we have expanded the telephone network, generated more
electricity, availed more safe water, built more health
centres, built more Schools, discovered your petroleum and
gas, discovered iron ore deposits of the haematite and the
magnetite types of 200million tonnes, the phosphate deposits
of 230 million tonnes, the limestone deposits of 300million
tonnes, the aluminium clays of 3 billion tonnes, huge
deposits of uranium etc etc.

3. Thirdly, we have correctly identified the 10 strategic

bottlenecks that had bedevilled the growth of African
countries, Uganda included. One of the bottlenecks was

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undermining the private sector which is the greatest engine
of growth.

4. By building a strong Army, we have been able to

guarantee security in Uganda from corner to corner, for the
first time in 500 years.

5. Planning and arranging with our African brothers and

sisters to have the common market of the whole of Africa and
the political Federation of East Africa to ensure our
prosperity and our strategic security.
The vicious media campaign has been against these aims
and achievements. The parasites, however, misjudged
Ugandans. They under-estimate their ability to see for
themselves. That is why I congratulate the Ugandans on
their great show in the recent Women and LCI elections.

The people have clearly demonstrated their resistance to the

schemes of the liars, charlatans, murderers and parasites. If
you can, please, learn.

The two legs of the Resistance of Uganda were and are: the
National Resistance Army (later UPDF) and the Resistance
Councils (the RCs- later LCIs ). After these two branches of
the Resistance defeating the dictatorships, we handed power
and influence, mainly on account of speaking English and
education to the elites: the MPs on the basis of Education,
the Ministers, the Local Govt leaders, Judges, etc.

It is a serious mistake and miscalculation for the different

layers of what should be our partners to think that they can,
instead of partnership with the primary authors of the

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change, overran the Country in the interests of the parasitic
interests- internal or external.

It is not only the activities of the enemy that undermine the

NRM. Even some of the NRM leaders engage in seeking
commissions (bribes) from business people, do not render
Govt service without getting bribes or fail to detect and act
against these evils. I call on Ugandans to expose these evils
by ringing the telephone numbers my office will soon provide
to them through the media. We acted against officials in the
Ministry of Finance that were suspected of bribe taking and
other high profile cases that you know. Corruption can and
will be defeated. The LCIs must be shielded from this
corruption. Quickly, the Ministry of Local Govt needs to
centrally issue LCI stamps and, possibly, receipt books with
counter-foils so that the actions of the village authorities are
properly recorded. Let us discuss, led by Local Govt, how all
this can be best done. The Cabinet needs to issue written
guidelines to the LCI Chairpersons as to the dos and don’ts
of those structures.

Thankyou.

Signed:
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Gen. (rtd).

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