Presidential race closes in Kampala
Feb 16, 2011
AS the 2011 campaign trail drew to a close, the leading candidates, NRM’s Yoweri Museveni, DP’s Nobert Mao and IPC's Kizza Besigye spent the day scouting for votes in and around Kampala city.
AS the 2011 campaign trail drew to a close, the leading candidates, NRM’s Yoweri Museveni, DP’s Nobert Mao and IPC's Kizza Besigye spent the day scouting for votes in and around Kampala city.
Nobert Mao promises better for youth
Besigye will not go to court over polls
Museveni defends Luzira land give-away
By CYPRIAN MUSOKE
President Museveni has defended his decision to allocate part of Luzira Prison land for industries, saying it was being used to grow potatoes for prisoners, which can be done elsewhere.
Campaigning at Luzira Boma grounds yesterday, Museveni said the prime land should not be wasted but be used to build industries for job creation.
The President also spent the day campaigning in Nakawa division. He said he would hold his last rally in Kololo in Kampala today.
Talking on Bukedde TV on Sunday, Museveni said he wants the city turned into yellow, the NRM party colour.
Commenting on the Luziira land, Museveni said: “Luzira is now full of factories built on land previously belonging to prisons. You remember when I did that I was castigated as if I did not know what I was doing.â€
He said the land was for prisoners, some of whom were convicted murderers, to grow Lumonde (potatoes) to eat. “I told the ministers that if these people wanted to grow potatoes they could go to Rwakitura, Bukomero, Singo and other rural areas but not in Kampala. Where there is electricity we need to build factories because our children need jobs,†he said, to thunderous applause.
Growing potatoes on one acre of land, he noted, cannot yield tangible profits but a factory on a similar piece of land will offer countless opportunities.
“The enclosure of Luzira Prison is enough. We should not keep this excess land redundant because having idle land in the city is not economical,†he said. Besides, he added, prisons can be located anywhere.
“There is factory here in Namanve producing roofing materials and is located on a few acres but it employs about 5,000 people. This is more employment than we are getting from coffee all over Uganda, but it is coming from only one acre,†he said.
This is the more reason, he added, the youth must know which politician is correctly identifying their needs and promising realistic things, and vote accordingly.
“Employment, industry and electricity are interconnected with elections,†he said, adding that he had a big problem convincing the 6th Parliament when he wanted to build Bujagali hydro-electric power dam.
This dam, he added, will be ready in October but would have been ready ten years ago.
“Who delayed this dam and what was the cost to you who want services and jobs? So politics is not just excitement but serious business. If you elect badly you will reap badly,†he warned.
He asked the people to vote for the NRM parliamentary flag-bearers Fred Ruhindi for Nakawa, Kampala Woman MP candidate Margaret Zziwa, and mayoral hopeful Peter Ssematimba.
He also introduced independent mayoral candidate, Francis Babu. A resilient Babu told the people that in essence, there were no mayoral primaries, and that they (people) would decide on Friday who their mayor will be.
When people in Luzira complained to Museveni that in most factories they were being exploited by the Indian investors, Museveni said that for one to milk a cow, they should first convince it to enter a kraal.
“Let us first get these investors here and after they have come, we set for them a minimum wage,†he stressed.
At the Nakawa and Ntinda rallies, Museveni told the youth that they were healthy because of mass immunisation brought by the NRM.
He said the Government had also introduced free education and what the youth now needed were jobs.
Nobert Mao promises better for youth
Besigye will not go to court over polls
Museveni defends Luzira land give-away
By CYPRIAN MUSOKE
President Museveni has defended his decision to allocate part of Luzira Prison land for industries, saying it was being used to grow potatoes for prisoners, which can be done elsewhere.
Campaigning at Luzira Boma grounds yesterday, Museveni said the prime land should not be wasted but be used to build industries for job creation.
The President also spent the day campaigning in Nakawa division. He said he would hold his last rally in Kololo in Kampala today.
Talking on Bukedde TV on Sunday, Museveni said he wants the city turned into yellow, the NRM party colour.
Commenting on the Luziira land, Museveni said: “Luzira is now full of factories built on land previously belonging to prisons. You remember when I did that I was castigated as if I did not know what I was doing.â€
He said the land was for prisoners, some of whom were convicted murderers, to grow Lumonde (potatoes) to eat. “I told the ministers that if these people wanted to grow potatoes they could go to Rwakitura, Bukomero, Singo and other rural areas but not in Kampala. Where there is electricity we need to build factories because our children need jobs,†he said, to thunderous applause.
Growing potatoes on one acre of land, he noted, cannot yield tangible profits but a factory on a similar piece of land will offer countless opportunities.
“The enclosure of Luzira Prison is enough. We should not keep this excess land redundant because having idle land in the city is not economical,†he said. Besides, he added, prisons can be located anywhere.
“There is factory here in Namanve producing roofing materials and is located on a few acres but it employs about 5,000 people. This is more employment than we are getting from coffee all over Uganda, but it is coming from only one acre,†he said.
This is the more reason, he added, the youth must know which politician is correctly identifying their needs and promising realistic things, and vote accordingly.
“Employment, industry and electricity are interconnected with elections,†he said, adding that he had a big problem convincing the 6th Parliament when he wanted to build Bujagali hydro-electric power dam.
This dam, he added, will be ready in October but would have been ready ten years ago.
“Who delayed this dam and what was the cost to you who want services and jobs? So politics is not just excitement but serious business. If you elect badly you will reap badly,†he warned.
He asked the people to vote for the NRM parliamentary flag-bearers Fred Ruhindi for Nakawa, Kampala Woman MP candidate Margaret Zziwa, and mayoral hopeful Peter Ssematimba.
He also introduced independent mayoral candidate, Francis Babu. A resilient Babu told the people that in essence, there were no mayoral primaries, and that they (people) would decide on Friday who their mayor will be.
When people in Luzira complained to Museveni that in most factories they were being exploited by the Indian investors, Museveni said that for one to milk a cow, they should first convince it to enter a kraal.
“Let us first get these investors here and after they have come, we set for them a minimum wage,†he stressed.
At the Nakawa and Ntinda rallies, Museveni told the youth that they were healthy because of mass immunisation brought by the NRM.
He said the Government had also introduced free education and what the youth now needed were jobs.