PRESS STATEMENT ON NATIONAL DAY OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

President Yoweri Museveni has said that Uganda became a failed state shortly after gaining independence from Britain in 1962 because of the politics of identity.

“Uganda became a failed State because of politics of identity. What do people need? They need prosperity. This is through economic activities. One has to produce and sell what he produces best. Prosperity is achieved when products are bought,” he said.

JOINT ADVISORY ON EBOLA

President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned the newly built roads within Tororo Municipality in Eastern Region. The roads were constructed under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) programme that aims at development of infrastructure in new Municipalities.

The Executive Director of the Gaming and Lotteries Regulatory Authority, Edgar Agaba and the Manager of Finance Administration, John Patrick Kazoora, have been charged with stealing Shs. 712.5 million belonging to the Board. They appeared today in the Kololo-based Anti-Corruption Court before Chief Magistrate Pamela Lamunu Ocaya. 

The Head of the Anti-Corruption Unit in Stated House, Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema, has said that Government wants the genuine claims for the supply of tea seedlings in Southwestern Uganda’s Kisoro District to be paid. 

“We want the genuine claims to be paid. Payments have been delayed because of the fake claims. We shall arrest the thieves. There are reports of collusion between officials of Kisoro District and NAADS to defraud Government of Shs.7.3 billion in false claims,” she said.

President Yoweri Museveni has met and bid farewell to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio who is on a 3-day visit to Uganda at the invitation of Mr. Museveni. 

President Yoweri Museveni has received a special message from the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Mr. Ahmed Abiy 

The Prime Minister’s Special Advisor, Mr. Girma Birru Geda, who is also the Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States of America, delivered the message to President Museveni yesterday at State House, Nakasero. 

The President and the Ethiopian Envoy discussed matters of mutual interest between Uganda and Ethiopia.

SHAOSHAN, CHINA: President Yoweri Museveni yesterday (Thursday) made what he described as, ‘a revolutionary’s pilgrimage’ to the birthplace of the founding father of China, Chairman Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in China.

ENHANCING PREFERENTIAL MARKET ACCESS FOR UGANDAN GOODS AND SERVICES UNDER THE EAC COMESA AND SADC TRIPARTITE AND AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA NEGOTIATIONS