President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered Uganda police traffic
department to enforce the traffic code and ensure that all road users
are following the rules and guidelines.
The President said this while speaking about discipline of Ugandans especially on the road.
Speaking this afternoon during the celebrations of 32nd liberation day
anniversary at Boma grounds I Arua, the president said boda boda riders
and taxi drivers in Kampala have no discipline on the road and this is
giving the country a bad name.
He added that many foreigners have complained to him about reckless
drivers who drive on the pavements, making it clear those pavements are
meant for pedestrians not drivers.
The president further said Uganda is one of the most peaceful society in
Uganda, and that criminals in Kampala will all be arrested, with the
new improvement in infrastructure including roads and electricity in the
city and other parts of the country.
In his long speech, the president called for discipline amongst the
youth if they are to do away with poverty. He promised that government
would do everything to help them develop economically and financially,
but that without discipline, this was impossible.
Youths must be disciplined, stop taking alcohol, drugs, stop Umalaya.
These misbehaviors will not help them. It is not enough to say I am
taking drugs because I am frustrated. If you take drugs, how will
frustration go away? Wondered the president.
He added that youth without land and money will be helped by forming groups to help them work together.
“Even
youths without land will be assisted to do work collectively. Why
should we export maize without processing it? We are going to make sure
many of our youths are assisted to own maize mills to process maize”
Museveni promised.
He ended speech by thanking the residents of Arua for sticking to
democracy and not participating in the atrocities committed by warlord
Joseph Kony.
“Even when the idiot Kony was killing people, the people of West Nile
did not participate in this nonsense, I congratulate you” Museveni
said.
On January 25, 1986, the National Resistance Army (NRA),
under the wing of the political National Resistance Movement (NRM),
ousted a government that represented years of corruption, civil rights
offenses, and alleged voter fraud.
The movement, led by
Yoweri Musevini, promised “a fundamental change in the politics” of
Uganda. The country now commemorates the event every year as NRM
Liberation Day, though not without its detractors. The day is
commemorated on January 26th, since it is the day, Museveni was sworn in
as president.
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