Museveni Warns Media Over Kony
Sep 09, 2002
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has strongly warned local newspapers, especially The Monitor, to stop causing unnecessary scare among the public by misrepresenting the security situation in the north.
By Joyce Namutebi
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has strongly warned local newspapers, especially The Monitor, to stop causing unnecessary scare among the public by misrepresenting the security situation in the north.
Museveni said, “My government is doing everything possible to bring about peace in the north and we have already instituted a team to talk to Kony.
“While some newspapers can play around with issues like politics, they should not do it with the security of the country because this is about lives of people,†he said.
Museveni, the UPDF Commander-in-Chief, was yesterday lecturing to over 1,500 UPDF officer cadets who are undergoing a one-year training course at the School of Infantry, Jinja, a statement by Museveni’s press secretary Mary Okurut said yesterday.
The theme of the lecture was “The importance of ideology in the development of society, evolution and modernisation.â€
Museveni said the problem in the north is in the process of being solved. Museveni said most African countries lag behind for lack of ideology.
Uganda people’s Defence Forces chief political commissar, Brig. Kale Kaihura, attended the lecture. Museveni said one of the major problems of African societies was underdevelopment characterised by low capacity and ability to tame and harness the natural laws of nature.
He said unemployment was a result of underdevelopment. He said the problem can be solved by attracting more industries and broadening the tax base.
He said because of lack of a wide tax base most African countries depend on donors. He emphasised the need to add value to local products such as coffee and textiles.
He said while the total coffee business in the world is US$55b a year, coffee producing countries get only $8m a year.
On underdevelopment of the human resource, Museveni said the Movement introduced the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme because education was the medicine for Africa’s problems.
The School of Infantry chief, Lt. Col. Igumba, thanked Museveni for the lecture.
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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has strongly warned local newspapers, especially The Monitor, to stop causing unnecessary scare among the public by misrepresenting the security situation in the north.
Museveni said, “My government is doing everything possible to bring about peace in the north and we have already instituted a team to talk to Kony.
“While some newspapers can play around with issues like politics, they should not do it with the security of the country because this is about lives of people,†he said.
Museveni, the UPDF Commander-in-Chief, was yesterday lecturing to over 1,500 UPDF officer cadets who are undergoing a one-year training course at the School of Infantry, Jinja, a statement by Museveni’s press secretary Mary Okurut said yesterday.
The theme of the lecture was “The importance of ideology in the development of society, evolution and modernisation.â€
Museveni said the problem in the north is in the process of being solved. Museveni said most African countries lag behind for lack of ideology.
Uganda people’s Defence Forces chief political commissar, Brig. Kale Kaihura, attended the lecture. Museveni said one of the major problems of African societies was underdevelopment characterised by low capacity and ability to tame and harness the natural laws of nature.
He said unemployment was a result of underdevelopment. He said the problem can be solved by attracting more industries and broadening the tax base.
He said because of lack of a wide tax base most African countries depend on donors. He emphasised the need to add value to local products such as coffee and textiles.
He said while the total coffee business in the world is US$55b a year, coffee producing countries get only $8m a year.
On underdevelopment of the human resource, Museveni said the Movement introduced the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme because education was the medicine for Africa’s problems.
The School of Infantry chief, Lt. Col. Igumba, thanked Museveni for the lecture.
Ends