Avoid hate statements, President tells leaders

Aug 04, 2010

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has advised religious and traditional leaders to avoid making hate statements.<br>During a meeting at State House Entebbe yesterday, Museveni said leaders must concentrate on issues that unite Ugandans and programmes that improve their welfare.

By Vision Reporter
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has advised religious and traditional leaders to avoid making hate statements.
During a meeting at State House Entebbe yesterday, Museveni said leaders must concentrate on issues that unite Ugandans and programmes that improve their welfare.

He advised the public to evaluate what leaders say. “Do not fall for their nice suits. Evaluate their statements and see how you benefit from them.”

In a meeting with entrepreneurs and opinion leaders from Katwe, a Kampala suburb, the President said: “What some of our religious and traditional leaders say on radio stations are hate statements that can divide Ugandans.”

Museveni met businessmen, mechanics and timber traders of Katwe Metal Fabricators Cluster and Ndeeba Timber Dealers.

The President gave the group sh20m for the mechanics to buy tool boxes and pledged a lorry to the timber traders.
He also directed that the Government secures land for garage owners.

The leader of the group, Juma Kayima, said some group members were formerly with the opposition.
He told the President that electricity was unstable and expensive.

Museveni promised that with the completion of Bujagali and other hydro-power dams, more electricity will be generated, making it cheaper.

He assured the industrialists, who are the biggest energy consumers, that the current high power tariffs were temporary.


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