Movement focused â€" Museveni

Apr 15, 2005

Uganda has registered success in tackling national development issues because the Movement leadership is focused, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

By Vision Reporter

Uganda has registered success in tackling national development issues because the Movement leadership is focused, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

He said Uganda had started the process of transforming its society fundamentally.

He said introduction of Universal Primary Education heralded the operationalisation of the fundamental change the Movement government committed itself to after taking power in 1986.

He said the programme had improved the country’s literacy rate that currently stands at 68%.

Museveni was on Wednesday meeting senior army officers who are undergoing a one-year training at the Ghana Armed Forces Command Staff College in Accra.

The officers, who are led by Hughton, are from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Botswana and Kenya. They are on a one-week familiarisation tour of Uganda.

The President told the military officers that Uganda had also embarked on industrialisation and creation of employment.

He said the industrial and services sectors were employing nearly three million Ugandans out of a labour force of 11 million.

Museveni told the visitors that instability in Africa stemmed from lack of direction on the part of the elite to stimulate economic production in a sustainable way.

He said African societies were overwhelming peasants who have not yet transformed to industrial status.

The officers visited Kimaka Senior Staff College in Jinja, the Source of the Nile and Bujagaali Falls.

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