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President Museveni blames past regimes of current poverty in #Uganda after 36 years in power.

President Museveni says past regimes guilty of poverty in Uganda - The East African
theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/…

“When the colonialists came here, they made our people grow the crops they wanted: cotton, tobacco, coffee, tea, and then our leaders just copied what the colonialists told them...So, when I studied the issue, I could see danger, number one was only working for the stomach. “They (locals) must work for the stomach and the pocket. But secondly, even the ones who are working for the pocket do so without cura (calculations). That is how you get West Nile growing tobacco. If you grow tobacco on one acre, you will never get out of poverty…”

President Museveni says past regimes guilty of poverty in Uganda

President Museveni says past leaders and colonialists “poisoned the minds’’ of hardworking farmers.
DAILY MONITOR (The East African)
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