All
disabled were born under Obote - Museveni
By Patrick Elobu Angonu
Oct 16, 2003
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SOROTI - President Yoweri Museveni caused a stir
at Soroti sports ground yesterday when he said that all people suffering
from polio in Uganda were born during the regimes of Idi Amin and Milton
Obote.
"Whenever you
see a deformed person or anyone suffering from polio he/she was born
during Obote and Amin regimes and not under the Movement government," Mr
Museveni said.
The President
was officiating at the launch of the 2003 national immunisation exercise
against measles.
Museveni said
he wanted children born under the NRM to be fit "like him" so as to be
able to fight the Lord's Resistance Army rebels.
The President
said his government eliminated polio from Uganda in 1997. He told the
crowd that when the NRM took over power in 1986 96,000 children were dying
every year from the six killer diseases.
Museveni
blasted critics of the immunisation exercise - and those who oppose his
plans to build health centres across the country as "night dancers",
sending the crowd into laughter |
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