President Museveni dragged after leading march against corruption

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is being criticized for leading hundreds of people in a march against corruption on Wednesday.

The President said in order to end corruption, they will need to develop their economy.

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“Commercial agriculture, industry services and ICT, because that’s how we can create jobs and wealth and income so that our people do not have a material basis for acute need, which forces them to be corrupt,” Museveni said.

The critics came due to high-rank Uganda received last year. Transparency International ranked Uganda as one of the most corrupt countries in Africa.

Action Aid International-Uganda says the march that the President embarked in is ironic because his government is to blame for much of it.

The director of programs and policy at Action Aid International-Uganda, Nickson Ogwal said: “He is the chief law enforcement officer of Uganda.”

“He’s, therefore, the one [to] whom the citizens are supposed to walk and show and demonstrate that they are angry about corruption. Now, to whom is he angry? So, we really think that he is playing politics,” he added.

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However, some believe that the President is really trying to change the country.

“You see when he says, ‘I am ready to fight,’ it means he’s ready to give them up. So that if you start looking for them, and to be true to him if you are investigating a person who is near him, he doesn’t say stop investigating. He says, ‘bring me the evidence,” inspector, Irene Mulyagonja said.

Uganda’s deputy speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah says he doesn’t believe that Museveni holds the issue as a priority.

“Unless we take this from our own frontline and extend the frontier to cover other areas, it’s a waste of time

“It’s a public show for nothing. I come because it’s a public show, but deep down I know. We are going right back to practice the same damn corruption that we claim to fight,” Oulanyah said.