Drug addicts have no moral claim to leadership - Museveni

Nov 26, 2020

“You are taking drugs and you say you want to be a leader?"

NRM   I   UGDECIDES 2021

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, Yoweri Museveni, has said young people seeking leadership should lead by example to win the trust of those they seek to serve.

Museveni, while meeting NRM youth leaders from Bugisu sub-region on Wednesday, said the concept of youth had been misconstrued and abused.

"When you talk about the youth these days, people talk about biology - the youth of the body and age - that is very dangerous," he told youth leaders at a scientific campaign meeting at Mbale Secondary School in Mbale City.

"The youth, who is going to be useful to oneself and the country must be youthful biologically, spiritually, morally, educationally, maybe even technically, with managerial skills, and ideologically. This is the youth you must talk about.

"The good thing is that I was a youth myself, very active youth. So, I don't need any lecture from anyone in the world," he added. 

He insisted that young people seeking positions of leadership in the country must conduct themselves in a way that is not antithetical to societal norms.

"You are taking drugs and you say you want to be a youth leader. We need youth who are spiritually and morally upright and productive. That is what I always tell my grandchildren," he said.

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