President Museveni has said prosperity for the people and building strategic security are at the heart of his mission for Uganda and Africa.
The President, who is also the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, made the remarks yesterday while delivering a lecture of opportunity to officers from the Tanzanian National Defence College, who are in Uganda.
The opportunity lecture took place at the President’s country home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District.
Mr Museveni welcomed them to Uganda and gave them a brief history of Uganda, which he said had collapsed completely politically and economically, until it was rescued by the freedom fighters in 1986.
“I welcome you to Uganda. To get a good picture of Uganda, I need to inform you that Uganda had become a failed state. It had collapsed. This was because of the endless coups. The political governance was collapsing, but also the economy and social services had collapsed,” he said.
The President said as freedom fighters, they formed two missions; one of building prosperity and another of building strategic security.
“When we analysed the reasons for all these conflicts, we came up with two missions that would be assisted with four principles. Our group soon after Independence, detached itself and formed the student’s movement, which eventually rescued Uganda. That student movement identified two missions; how do we build prosperity on the African continent, but also how do we build strategic security that covers all situations,” he said.
The President said people would talk about sectarian politics of region and tribe, which could not solve the problem of prosperity and strategic security.
Stressing his point, Mr Museveni added that when you have a producer and a consumer, then you will need infrastructure such as roads and electricity to enable products reach the consumer.
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