President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has revealed that he will be meeting cultural leaders in Uganda in September this year.
The President says that the meeting will focus on sharing the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government’s vision with the cultural leaders. “We have been active since the 1960s. We started as a student movement, then we became a fighting force because of our internal politics here. We later became a political movement but we have very strong views that we would like to share with the traditional people so that we don’t clash because for us we are very firm. We cannot change,” he said.
President Museveni made the remarks on Tuesday while meeting a group of cultural leaders in Africa led by the Umukuka III of the Bamasaba Cultural Institution, His Highness, Jude Mike Mudoma at State House, Entebbe.
Uganda Hosted the biggest and most exciting cultural activity in the eastern city of Mbale where the Bamasaba launched their circumcision season at their cultural site at Mutoto in Mbale city.
During the meeting, the President implored the cultural leaders to sensitize their people to create wealth and uplift their livelihoods. He said as a government, they have always advocated for prosperity among Ugandans.
“Our starting point is a question. Do you want prosperity in Africa or not? If you say you do, then the question is how will it be achieved? Can it be achieved by begging Europeans? If begging was the solution, Africa by now would be rich because they have been begging for the last 70 years.
Begging has not worked that is why you see crises everywhere in Africa which means that the issue of prosperity is yet to be addressed,” he said. “Our view is that prosperity will come from each adult person producing a good or participating in producing a good or a service and selling it sustainably and getting money; that money will help me get rich and solve my problems.
President Museveni further explained that prosperity will come from wealth creation, which is why the government sends money (Parish Development Model) to villages to create wealth for every homestead.