President Yoweri Museveni has lashed out at Ugandans that are focused on promoting sectarianism, saying some have tried to cast the NRM as a system monopolized by people from western Uganda.
“Here in the Presidency, I am quite comfortable without many Banyankore, or, indeed, any Munyankore around,” he said in a missive released today, that addressed several responses he got on social media since July 14, 2020 when he last shared his thoughts.
To illustrate his point, President Museveni listed the key staff in State House to show they are from across the country. They included State House Comptroller Lucy Nakyobe and his PPS Dr Kenneth Omona.
“I am quite comfortable without any big Munyankore in the vicinity. Do not tell us about those cheap things of tribes and religious sectarianism,” he wrote.
In his missive, he responded to several issues raised on social media from his long reign, politics, the economy to COVID-19 and sports.
“I welcome the positive suggestions like the idea of sports without audiences that have been tried in other countries of Europe. There are also ideas of isolating the tourism areas that I saw in Cuba. However, all this must be subsidiary to life,” he wrote, adding that “Any activity that can be opened safely, with SOPs, will be opened. I am one of the people most interested in good economic performance. However, economic performance should never be more important than lives.”
