President Yoweri Museveni, also the National Chairman of the ruling National Resistance Movement, has assured the NRM Parliamentary Caucus that the Party and country will reap from their wise decision to endorse him to continue to lead both the Party and the country beyond 2021.
Mr. Museveni made the assurance on Tuesday while closing a week long retreat of the National Resistance Movement Parliamentary Caucus that has been taking place at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi District. The closing ceremony took place Tuesday afternoon at Ngoma Government Ranch in Nakaseke District, President Museveni
The president also assured the legislators that Uganda was set for transformation under the National Resistance Movement leadership under his stewardship, calling for support from all Movement leaders in the struggle against household poverty that he said was the biggest challenge the country was faced with.
“Let us work together to uproot poverty out of Uganda. I want your support as a Caucus in Parliament in approving budgetary allocations to poverty eradication programs,” he said.
He also implored them to be agents of change in their own areas in the fight against poverty. “Go out and spread poverty eradication messages and be examples.
he people will follow you and it will ease your work as a leader instead of attempting to solve all problems of your constituents, which is not feasible. Once the population is economically empowered, your work as a leader will be made simple,” Museveni said.
The NRM Chairman further appealed to the legislators to sensitise the population about the danger posed by the continued fragmentation of land on account of poor inheritance rites that he said pose a great danger to the future of agriculture which is the main source of income, food and employment to the majority of Ugandans.
The Vice President, Mr. Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi, commended the National Resistance Movement Parliamentary Caucus for endorsing President Museveni to continue leading the Movement and the country. He said age was merely a number and only worked to help enrich one’s wisdom and said that Ugandans needed to tap into the wisdom and experience of President Museveni to develop Uganda into a modern first world country.
At the conclusion of the retreat, the NRM Caucus passed and adopted a number of social, economic, political and administrative resolutions that the will be forwarded to the National Executive Conference and later to the Delegates Conference for discussion and adoption.
