President Museveni has rejected millions of dollars that aim at kumuloobesa

If you didn’t know it is high time you knew. President Museveni has so often rejected millions of dollars from donors who aim at Kumuloobesa. These donors offer loans, but with strings attached. The son of late Amos Kaguta, The Drone Media, has learnt he always reject such loans.

The full list of rejected loans by Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda include:

1. US Dollars 13.79 million for the Islamic University in Uganda. This University is private, If we guarantee their loans, how about Mukono, Nkozi, Ndejje, Basajjabalaba, etc?

2. US Dollars 30 million from Korea for Agriculture. I do not accept the vague description of “commercialization and enhanced productivity.” What do these mean?

3. US Dollars 100 million Islamic Development Bank for “poverty reduction”. What do these mean? If it is for Technical Schools, it should go to Education. If it is for industrial equipment and machine tools, it should be in State House or Ministry of Industry and we should have the freedom to buy equipment from the best sources.

4. I reject the loan of US Dollars 200 million for “fiscal transfers and fiscal management”. Do we need a loan in order to learn how to transfer money?

5. I reject the US Dollars 40 million for the vague target of Gender Based Violence. How will you know which women fought with which husband? Let us get equipment for women groups to do maize milling, wine-making, etc. Equipment for value addition, not seminars. The survivors of violence, if confirmed, can be supported by our own budget.

6. I reject the US Dollars 60 million for “nutrition, incomes, climate change” etc, for Eastern and Central Africa. This is vague.

7. I reject the US Dollars 60 million because it aims at vague elements such as “hunger, eradication of poverty, quality of education, clean water, health, well-being”, etc. How can you meaningfully address all these elements? Let the money be used for irrigation. I will support it, then.

8. I reject loan of US Dollars 101 million because of the nebulous aims of “household incomes, food security, sustainable natural resources management”. If it is for agriculture, let us use it for irrigation.

9. Kampala – Jinja Expressway of US Dollars 200 million and of US Dollars 100 million should not be guaranteed by the State. The money should be recovered through the road tolls. The loan is good but no guarantee.

10. I reject the US Dollars 60 million of farming on computers (ICT). This is too much maridadi (fancy). The farmers need good farming practices , fertilizers, irrigation, bush-clearing, ploughing and not computers because, even without computers, we know how much we produce.

11. I reject loan of US Dollars 50 million for “enhancing value chain of agriculture”. What do these mean? They want a “consultant” for “country strategy paper” Really? Do we need a strategy paper? Our Manifesto is the strategy paper.