Queen sends Independence message
QUEEN Elizabeth II of England has sent a congratulatory message to President Yoweri Museveni as Uganda celebrates 45 years of independence today. The Queen is scheduled to travel to Uganda next month for the Commonwealth summit.
By Apollo Mubiru
and Moses Mulondo
QUEEN Elizabeth II of England has sent a congratulatory message to President Yoweri Museveni as Uganda celebrates 45 years of independence today.
“I have much pleasure in sending your excellency my congratulations on the celebration of your national day, together with my best wishes for the happiness and prosperity of the government and people of Uganda in the year ahead,†Queen Elizabeth II said in a message released to the press yesterday by the British High Commission. The Queen is scheduled to travel to Uganda next month for the Commonwealth summit.
Meanwhile, the information minister, Kirunda Kivejinja, has said the main independence celebrations to take place at Kololo airstrip in Kampala, will be presided over by President Yoweri Museveni.
Activities to mark the independence anniversary this year will include the commissioning of the plant to manufacture HIV/Aids drugs, as well as the launching of the Prosperity-for-All programme, Kivejinja explained.
The New Vision has also established that by yesterday, some opposition party leaders had not received invitations to the celebrations.
Democratic Party president general Ssebaana Kizito said: “I have not received the invitation yet. It means they are not interested in my attendance because independence celebrations are not abrupt. I will not attend.â€
However, the Uganda People’s Congress deputy secretary general, Chris Opoka, confirmed that party president Miria Obote had been invited.
The Forum for Democratic Change said they had received the invitation, but would not attend because the event had degenerated into a partisan affair for the ruling NRM.
Conservative Party president John Ken Lukyamuzi said it was a pity that Uganda celebrates its 45th independence anniversary with a mismanaged economy where parastatals and national banks have been sold off.
and Moses Mulondo
QUEEN Elizabeth II of England has sent a congratulatory message to President Yoweri Museveni as Uganda celebrates 45 years of independence today.
“I have much pleasure in sending your excellency my congratulations on the celebration of your national day, together with my best wishes for the happiness and prosperity of the government and people of Uganda in the year ahead,†Queen Elizabeth II said in a message released to the press yesterday by the British High Commission. The Queen is scheduled to travel to Uganda next month for the Commonwealth summit.
Meanwhile, the information minister, Kirunda Kivejinja, has said the main independence celebrations to take place at Kololo airstrip in Kampala, will be presided over by President Yoweri Museveni.
Activities to mark the independence anniversary this year will include the commissioning of the plant to manufacture HIV/Aids drugs, as well as the launching of the Prosperity-for-All programme, Kivejinja explained.
The New Vision has also established that by yesterday, some opposition party leaders had not received invitations to the celebrations.
Democratic Party president general Ssebaana Kizito said: “I have not received the invitation yet. It means they are not interested in my attendance because independence celebrations are not abrupt. I will not attend.â€
However, the Uganda People’s Congress deputy secretary general, Chris Opoka, confirmed that party president Miria Obote had been invited.
The Forum for Democratic Change said they had received the invitation, but would not attend because the event had degenerated into a partisan affair for the ruling NRM.
Conservative Party president John Ken Lukyamuzi said it was a pity that Uganda celebrates its 45th independence anniversary with a mismanaged economy where parastatals and national banks have been sold off.