Museveni Messing Up Economy - Kiggundu
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The Monitor (Kampala)
May 10, 2005
Posted to the web May 9, 2005
Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi
Paliisa
President Yoweri Museveni has come under attack over his fiscal policies that critics say have driven the country into poverty.
Museveni was the target of attack by the officials of the opposition of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) at the party launch in Pallisa on Sunday.
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The former governor of the Central Bank, Dr Sulaiman Kiggundu, said Museveni had deviated from the fiscal policy the NRM set before it captured power in 1986.
"I was involved in writing that fiscal policy but we never said that Shs50 billion be spent only at State House. We did not plan to pay 15,000 ghost soldiers and never provided for the President's children to give birth in Europe," Kiggundu, who was chief guest said.
He said Museveni had suffocated indigenous banks and sold Uganda Commercial Bank at a give away price.
The FDC, which has variously complained of harrasment from security agencies in other various parts of the country enjoyed a peaceful function at the Pallisa Boma grounds.
FDC National Mobiliser, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, said their major task once it gets into power will be to fight poverty.
"The government gives only Shs24 billion to the Ministry of Agriculture which is the engine to poverty eradication yet it is spending nearly Shs50 billion on State House alone,"he said.
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Prof. Ogenga Latigo said the poverty levels in the country were alarming and there was little difference between parts that have been affected by war and those that have not been.
Ms Beti Kamya said Museveni had scored far less in his 20 years in power compared to the leaders of the first 20 years after independence.
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