Lukwago Blasts Sevo
Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, has criticized President Yoweri Museveni for always making empty promises to Ugandans in his speeches.
Lukwago made the remarks on Eid alfitri celebrations after Museveni’s inauguration speech at his swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday.
He says Museveni has failed to fulfill all his pledges made like transforming Uganda to a middle-income status by 2020, giving 2 trillion shillings to alleviate poverty through the business community, Teachers’grant, Modernization of agriculture among others.
“We need to seek Allah’s intervention because it appears that Mr. Museveni has entrenched a life presidency. The country is in a terrible crisis, it is in a dire situation. We must as a nation seek for the intervention of the almighty,” he said.
According to a Parliamentary Committee on Government Assurances committee report of which Daily Monitor broke the story on November 14, the President has not delivered on over 800 pledges ever since he took power.
However, the State House has called the committee narrative “mere politicking” and the handiwork of the opposition in Parliament.
Lukwago also says it is a national shame for the president call members of the international community ”idiots ” for criticizing him on democratic issues.
Lukwago Blasts Sevo
“And that is why he was very arrogant towards the western world who are critiquing him about the democratic credentials, the human right records, and all the gross violation of people’s rights. He used such shameful words like ‘idiots’, to describe people who are telling him that the human rights record is not good,” Lukwago noted.
During his inauguration speech at explained that he didnt need lessons on democracy.
‘‘It is quite laughable to try to give lectures about democracy to architects of such a system. We built this system for our people. We neither seek nor need any approbation from anybody outside Uganda, except our peers in the AU and EPAD to whom we are linked by 9African brotherhood, solidarity and shared values, based on mutual respect. We can also share our experience with those beyond the African shores, on the basis of mutual respect.”Museveni said
