FIGHT POVERTY AND CORRUPTION AND BUILD THE MONEY ECONOMY
President Yoweri Kaguta
Museveni opened the 1st Meeting of the 4th National Conference of the
National Resistance Movement (NRM) at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds on Monday 25th August 2025 rallying
delegates to focus on discipline, fight poverty and corruption, and ensure every
Ugandan household joins the money economy.
Accompanied by the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Kataha Museveni, the President who is also the National Chairman of the NRM, addressed thousands of delegates from across the country gathered to elect special interest group representatives and chart the Movement’s future direction. The conference will see the election of leaders representing the youth, elderly, workers, and persons with disabilities, among others.
while addressing the gathering, the President
Museveni expressed delight at the youthful composition of many of the newly
elected delegates, describing it as a healthy sign of generational renewal
within the Movement. He urged them to uphold the NRM’s principles of
patriotism, Pan-Africanism, democracy and socio-economic transformation, while
taking the party’s vision deeper into households across Uganda.
The President took
delegates on a reflective journey of Uganda’s economic transformation under the
NRM, tracing progress from the days of “minimum recovery” to what he now
describes as the country’s “take-off stage.”
He recalled the difficult
years when Ugandans lacked basic commodities such as sugar, salt, and soap,
noting that those days were about mere survival. He explained that Uganda later
expanded its economy through cash crops like coffee and tea, diversified into
other sectors, and is today producing higher-value products.
President Museveni pointed
to recent milestones such as the manufacture of vehicles through Kiira Motors,
the establishment of vaccine production facilities, and the rise of ICT as
evidence that Uganda has firmly entered its industrial age.
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