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After 36 years in power, Museveni blames past regimes for poverty in Uganda
Ugandan President says former leaders and colonialists “poisoned the minds’’ of hardworking farmers.
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After 36 years in power, Museveni blames past regimes for poverty in Uganda
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The President encouraged poverty-stricken Ugandans to carefully select lucrative enterprises such as the farming of coffee, fruits, dairy, poultry and fish farming.
President Yoweri Museveni has blamed past leaders and colonialists for Uganda’s poverty, saying they “poisoned the minds’’ of hardworking farmers.
“When the colonialists came here, they made our people grow the crops they wanted: cotton, tobacco, coffee, tea, and then our leaders just copied what the colonialists told them...So, when I studied the issue, I could see danger, number one was only working for the stomach.
“They (locals) must work for the stomach and the pocket. But secondly, even the ones who are working for the pocket do so without cura (calculations). That is how you get West Nile growing tobacco. If you grow tobacco on one acre, you will never get out of poverty…” he said.
