President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has hailed the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Museveni for spearheading a corruption free leadership in Uganda which has helped to save the country’s resources and also shaped the way leadership should be.
While speaking at celebrations to mark 76 years of the First Lady at Masulita Children's Village in Wakiso district on Thursday 27th June 2024, under the theme: “Celebrating 76 Years of Excellence”, President Museveni showered praises on the First Lady for cleaning up the corruption vices wherever she has worked, giving an example of Karamoja and the Ministry of Education.
“When she joined politics, me I did not support it because I thought she was not political, but I can testify that she has brought a corruption free leadership,” H.E Museveni said, giving an example of Karamoja where local governments were getting Shs 800 million each but had nothing to show on ground including providing water to the population.
“She had to start a war of resistance against those groups there. Then she came to the Ministry of Education where one of the big wars she had to fight was the war of furniture. One of your people was importing furniture from India, imagine! yet they were local furniture people who wanted to sell, and she had to fight that war. This one I can testify that when she joined politics, she said God had told her and indeed God used her to do some good work in Karamoja and now in the Ministry of education,” the President noted.
H.E Museveni congratulated the First Lady on clocking 76 years of age, further thanking God for granting them long life which is over and above the average life expectancy of Uganda.
“Before I came here, I launched the census results at Serena, and it was announced that the population of Uganda is now 45.9 million people and of course we know that they are now living longer than in 1986 where the average life expectancy was only 43 years. I think it has increased now. So, when you reach 76, this is really a good bonus. You have gone from the average 63 and added another 13 years. And I'm threatening 80. Therefore, we praise the Lord for giving us a long life,” the President said.
He further congratulated Maama Janet for her concept of Uganda Women's Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) in 1986 without his much involvement, an idea he says has helped so many children especially orphans. According to President Museveni, what the First Lady is doing at Masulita Children’s village through UWESO is to implement the vision of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) of free education which they introduced after the 1996 elections to enable children of the poor to study free through Universal Primary Education (UPE) and later Universal Secondary Education (USE), a concept he continues to blame head teachers and leaders to have suffocated.
“Here, Maama has demonstrated that free education is possible- you can educate children for free, but the problem is the greed of some of the people. You find a headmaster of a UPE school having his children in a private school, but he doesn’t want children of the poor to study free,” the President said.
On her side, Maama Janet expressed gratitude to God for the life well lived saying at 76 years, she has seen better the goodness of God.
“Let me first of all, thank Him who has given me the gift of life and time on this earth. He has given me time to collect the blessings of experience and to develop empathy. He has enabled me to understand the long view, the eternal perspective of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, and it has impacted the value of my time on earth. Therefore, I thank Him because I know that long life is a blessing not given to all people,” she said, further thanking God for the protection and providence of the period when President Museveni was in the Liberation struggle.
On the other hand, the First Daughter Mrs. Natasha Museveni Karugire praised the First Lady as a fearless and courageous woman who never gives up with God besides her.
“Everywhere Maama goes by the grace of God, and despite the challenges, she blooms. She works quietly and systematically, sowing the light of God and complete transformation in every assignment of her life. Her service is marked fully by her relationship with the Lord God and her life is circulated with her love for Jesus. I see a seal of favour on everything she does,” Mrs. Natasha said.
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