Middle class focused President Yoweri Museveni supposed to the region’s judiciary that Uganda and East Africa must do away with peasants to attain transformation.
“I am telling East Africa that we must do away with peasants. Not that they should die but go from pre-captalist mode of life to a modern way of life, to make justice easy,” Mr Museveni said at the closure of the annual conference for East African Magistrates and Judges Association in Munyonyo yesterday.
“Integration is important because it supports prosperity. In Uganda we don’t eat so much maize yet we produce 4 million tonnes per year,” he continued. “We consume only one million tonnes. If it wasn’t for East Africa, the extra maize would go to waste.”
“Same for milk where by Ugandans drink 800 million litres but produce 2.2 billion litres. We have been contributing so much to Kenya’s prosperity. Ugandans are buying $700 million worth of goods and services from Kenya and Kenyans are buying about $500million from Uganda. Therefore, integration is crucial for us as a community.
Mr. Museveni’s ‘jerrycan and bottle’ irrigation method skills this week has generated mixed reactions from the public.
He engaged actively in his Operation Wealth Creation campaign by spending four days at his farm and teaching locals how to kick out poverty through agriculture.
The 72-year-old president started his third day (Monday) at Luweero district by walking for about a kilometer with a bicycle carrying gallons to fetch water “in a drip irrigation demonstration”.
Earlier this month, Museveni blamed locals in the district of being poor by choice because of the fallow land in their possession.
He was given 10 acres of land after a request to cultivate coffee, tea, food crops, fruits and also to rear animals on an acre each as part of the programme.
