President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has sounded another warning to politicians, especially members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party against using their own money in politics with the hope of solving all their constituents’ problems.
According to Museveni, the chairman of NRM, such an interventions is very expensive and depletes resources without creating any significant change to the population.
The President made the appeal yesterday while addressing hundreds at Kololo Independence grounds in Kampala city.
Museveni was meeting a total of 478 NRM party flag bearers and chairpersons from the five divisions that make up Kampala.
According to a press release from the State House, Museveni encouraged the NRM leaders to tell people what they can do using government resources, not their own money.
He revealed that for all his 63 years in Uganda’s politics, he has never sold his cows to facilitate elections.
He also called upon leaders to promote government programs in search of support.
He gave an example of the 1.2 trillion Uganda shillings injected in the Parish Development Model (PDM) and the billions of shillings in Emyooga and other government programs aimed at uplifting people from poverty.
He asked party leaders to encourage and promote politics of unity among Ugandans to create a market for goods.
