NRM CEC Endorses President Museveni as 2021 Presidential Flag Bearer

The NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) assembly which has been taking place at Chobe Safari Lodge, Nwoya District under the stewardship & guidance of the National Chairperson, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has officially concluded business this Tuesday afternoon with a number of resolutions exhaustively discussed during the 5-Day Retreat.

According to a statement issued by Mr Rogers Mulindwa, the meeting resolved to have Mr Museveni as the NRM leader for 2021 and beyond.

“…To emphatically recommend to the membership of the movement and its organs that His Excellency Yoweri K. Museveni our leader and General of the African Resistance, continues leading the Movement and the State in 2021 and beyond- as we eliminate the bottlenecks to transformation,” reads part of the statement that is reproduced below.

IDEOLOGY & STRATEGY

1. That NRM cadres should appreciate & internalise the need for appropriate Strategy & Tactics at every phase of the struggle for the fundamental socio-economic transformation of Uganda and Africa.

2. That NRM shall invest massively in the development, consolidation, and dissemination of its ideological line, as well as the systematic mentorship of its cadreship.

3. To direct Government to expeditiously ensure the instruction in Patriotism straight from Primary to Universities and other Tertiary Institutions.

4. To sensitise & mobilise Ugandan people to work together for the political and economic integration of East Africa, as well as the consolidation of an African common market.

5. To warmly acknowledge & applaud the National Chairperson H.E Yoweri K. Museveni as the theoretician & principal strategist of the Movement in the fundamental liberation struggles & success of our people over the last 50 years.

6. To emphatically recommend to the membership of the movement and its organs that His Excellency Yoweri K. Museveni our leader and General of the African Resistance, continues leading the Movement and the State in 2021 and beyond- as we eliminate the bottlenecks to transformation.

THE ECONOMY

1. The Party hereby directs the Government to expeditiously study the multiple requirements of operationalizing the Parish Model and proceed with the implementation without delay.

2. The Party directs the Government to significantly recapitalize the Uganda Development Bank in the new Financial year, to enable the bank to play a more vigorous and central role in providing affordable credit for transformative effort.

3. The re-capitalization of UDB shall include relocating the Agriculture Credit Facility at the Bank of Uganda to UDB.

4. The Party further directs the Government to urgently revisit the legal and administrative regime for environmental conservation, as part of a fundamental push to roll back and mitigate the effects of Climate Change.

5. That the Party directs the Government to urgently revisit the reform of the Land legal regime, which currently creates unacceptable obstacles to national development.

CEC SESSIONS

The CEC sessions shall be rotated throughout the 18 NRM operational zones. Members will also be visiting Government and private projects within the zone hosting the session.