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Museveni kicks off nationwide visits to UPDF barracks

Mubiru Ivan by Mubiru Ivan
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President Yoweri Museveni has embarked on a nation-wide on-spot working visits to UPDF Barracks interacting with officers and men over their welfare issues including Housing, Education for their Children, Health facilities at stations and income-generating activities for the wives of soldiers.

On Friday, the president addressed the First Infantry Division at Kakiri Barracks in Wakiso District and here he first met Platoon commanders, Company Commanders, Battalion Commanders and Brigade commanders separately, later he held a combined meeting with other officers and men and said the UPDF must know its historical mission and the ideology of the revolution.

“To be an officer in the UPDF, you must know our ideology. You must know the interests of your people. Prosperity means security for the people of Uganda. We can’t guarantee our prosperity if we go by identity. Patriotism can help our people much better than parochialism and sectarianism,” he said.

“I have come to check on the units and the service they extend to our people in terms of security. We want politics of patriotism. It will help give us a bigger market than regional groups. Without African integration, the common market of East Africa and Africa, there can never be prosperity. We are lagging behind in science and technology and we must push for political and economic integration. Uganda cannot survive alone in a modern age.”

On education, the President noted that government policy is to ensure free education for the children of the poor. He said at Primary level, government has provided free education to four children per family and said soldiers children can access army schools. He said they would consider a proposal to offer the same for secondary school education. He however blamed some individuals who are trying to frustrate the efforts by charging parents fees.

On housing, the Commander in Chief urged the Defence administration to consider using their own labour as opposed to contracting building services. He said the SFC hospital was constructed for about Shs 400m compared to the Shs 1.5 billion earlier quoted by the private contractor. He therefore said that by using the UPDF construction Brigade, government would be able to meet the housing needs for the forces. He added that Government has been spending close to Shs96billion on rented offices which he said must stop.

The Commander Engineering Brigade Major General Timothy Sabiiti Mutebile said the force needs 60,000 housing units but currently has only 7000. He said the UPDF engineering Brigade has about 2500 well-trained human resource personnel whom they can use to bridge the gap without using contractors.

President Museveni urged the force to strengthen their confidence through knowledge saying without knowledge they can easily be deflated. He said the development of science and technology is the primer of social change alongside patriotism, Pan Africanism, Social Economic transformation and democracy. The President elaborated with a gun show and said when a soldier runs out of bullets, he can still improvise with his gun and keep fighting.

He urged the force not to squander their lives, live healthy lives and avoid alcohol, prostitution and malaria.

He later gave a donation to the SACCO of wives of soldiers in the unit to boost the income generating activities they are involved in.


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