His Excellency President Museveni Meets Lango Paramount Chief and Clan Leaders

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni met and held discussions with the Lango Paramount Chief (Won Nyaci) Eng. Dr. Michael Moses Odongo Okune and clan leaders on Monday 6th –October-2025 at State House Entebbe, During the meeting he urged his guests to promote their local language and culture, education, health, transform their society through development, and create peace. The President also called upon the people of Lango to generate wealth by transforming their society through developmental activities. “We need modern wealth based on money, depending on the land holding, choose the right enterprise for the family. This is where coffee passes because with coffee, if you do a little bit of irrigation, you can get Shs18m from an acre in a year and fruits have also got some good money, in one acre you can get quite a lot of money sometimes even as much as Shs30m,” he added. The President went further to urge religious leaders to promote cultural leadership and abandon some of the traditional cultures which are not good and to audit the good ones like marrying outside the clan, and the issue of inheritance. “I have already audited the Banyankole culture because the Banyankole culture was suppressing the girl child, the girl child was dependent all her life. When she was a girl she would depend on the father, when she gets married, she depends on the husband, when the husband dies, she remains a widow and depends on the son and the children. I said my daughters must have their share, they are my blood,” he asserted. President Museveni also thanked the people of Lango for the love and support they showed him while campaigning in their region. On his part, His Highness Odongo Okune commended President Museveni for the peace and security he brought to the Lango sub-region. “You rid Lango of state-inspired violence of the 1970s and early 1980s, cattle rustling and numerous insurgencies like those of Kony, Lakwena that had caused death, and mass internal displacement of communities,” he said. “Lango is grateful to Your Excellency for the developments you have brought to the region.” He also thanked President Museveni for the wealth creation projects in Lango which have helped the people to develop themselves.

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