In his statement President Museveni clarified as follows:
Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu. Habaari. Greetings to all of you
Of recent, I have noticed a lot of orwaari (noise, kelele), regarding the Sovereignty Bill. Which Sovereignty Bill is the rwaari about? The one I initiated in the Cabinet or another one? The Bill will stop FDIs (Foreign Direct Investments), support for religious bodies from abroad, Remittances from Ugandans working abroad, etc., etc. Really!! That is not the Bill I initiated.
The Bill I initiated, was about what we fought for and what the whole of Africe fought for ever since 1900 when the whole of Africa, except for Ethiopia, had been shamefully colonized after 400 years of slave trade because of our egocentric Kings that were spending more energy causing wars among us thar uniting us to defend ourselves.
Starting with the Afro-American Pan-Africanists such as Marcus Garvey and the ANC founded in 19 12, the African Resistance, assisted by some othe factors such as the support of the Socialist Countries of the USSR and China finally defeated the colonial invasion with the freedom of South Africa in 1994. A whole century spent on that effort for survival as free People.
It is that Sovereignty that we were fighting for. Sovereignty in what? In policy decision-making. Policy decision-making on what issues? Policy decision- making on political issues (e.g., special women representation in Parliament or UPDF representation in Parliament); social issues (e.g., promotion of homo- sexuality or not); economic issues (e.g., privatization or not, return of Asian properties or not); diplomatic issues (e.g., taking sides on the issues of the Ukraine- Russian war or remaining neutral); etc., etc.
As Mwalimu once said, Independence means the right to make our own mistakes if necessary and learn from them. Sovereignty means: “Please, muteleke (leave us alone), so that we make our own decisions.” Do not fund groups to influence our decisions as a country. As our Constitution covered it we exercise e1r sovereignty regularly through elections and referenda (Article 1(4), Article 59 and 68 of the Constitution),
To all and sundry, please do not interfere by word, action or money in tha effort. Policy and ideological decisions can make or break countries. Uganda had become a failed state because of the politics of identity (tribe, religion,