A supporter of
Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement lifts an election poster of
president Yoweri Museveni. Phograph: Reuters/Radu Sigheti
Kampala
President Museveni’s State–of-the-Nation Address
continues to draw criticism with MPs on Thursday accusing him of being a
dreamer who is ignoring the problems gripping the country.
Reacting to the address presented by Mr Museveni
in July, MPs said the President did not confront issues of governance,
funding for agriculture, the poor road and railway network.
Mr Wafula Oguttu, the Bukholi Central MP, accused
the President of championing a budgeting process skewed towards the
rich, leaving majority of Ugandans out. He said Mr Museveni has turned
away from the ideals of the 10-Point Programme, a set of economic and
political action points hatched during the 1981-86 Bush War as an
antidote to a country emerging from years of misrule and economic
turmoil.
MPs accused Mr Museveni of suffering from
ideological disorientation and being a dreamer over a suggestion he made
that the government will construct an underground railway system.
“Everything that belongs to the Uganda Railways
has been sold. If you fail to construct a ground train, how can you say
you are going to construct an underground train?” Mr Deogratius Kiyingi
(DP, Kalungu East) asked.
Efforts to get a comment from Mr Ofwono Opondo,
the government spokesperson, Mr Frank Tumwebaze, the minister for the
Presidency or Mr Tamale Mirundi, the President’s spokesperson, by the
time of filing this report were futile as they did not respond to their
known phone numbers. However, Mr Simon Mulongo (Bubulo East) said the
President’s address tackled security problems.
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