{"id":26545,"date":"2016-07-02T04:24:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/museveni-unveils-new-old-20-point-agenda\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T04:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:24:38","slug":"museveni-unveils-new-old-20-point-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/museveni-unveils-new-old-20-point-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni unveils new \u2018old\u2019 20-point agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Without explaining what became of his Bush War 10-point programme, President Museveni at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, unveiled a new 20-point development agenda, restating his promise of turning Uganda into a middle income country in the next four years.}<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni, according to cabinet sources, listed 18 priority action points, that he wants his new government to focus on in the next five years. <\/p>\n

However, before cabinet adopted his \u201cnew\u201d plan, ministers added two points on his list of priorities; supporting the water sector to widen safe water coverage and intensifying resource mobilisation to fulfil the agreed upon priorities.<\/p>\n

At the inaugural cabinet meeting last week, the President had listed 15-priority points, starting with the need to aggressively look for investments and listed corruption as the second priority issue that must be addressed in order to drive Uganda to a middle income status. However, in the second Cabinet meeting at State House Entebbe on Thursday, he added three more points and the ministers added two before he officially unveiled his \u201cnew\u201d 20-point plan for Uganda. For the first time, Mr Museveni promised to hold periodical meetings with the ministers and technocrats in the various dockets to assess progress, looking at specific deliverables and indicators he listed. The three points added by the president are improving government communication, supporting the judiciary with all the human and financial resources to improve delivery of justice and fighting crime and urban physical planning.<\/p>\n

After what sources called \u201ca comprehensive discussion\u201d of Mr Museveni\u2019s 18-point programme, the ministers also added two on the list.
\nA statement from Information and ICT minister Frank Tumwebaze, said the President \u201cstressed that organised urban planning is not only good for the environment, tourism but a great enabler for job creation through organised urban trade.\u201d
\nThe statement also confirmed the President\u2019s 20-point agenda, repeating some of the things the President had promised to do 30 years ago when he captured power in 1986.<\/p>\n

For instance, in his revised 10-point programme of 2012, among the 10 key bottlenecks he had promised zero tolerance to corruption, improving education to refine human resource, modernising agriculture and job creation, among others. Some of these priorities were also part of the president\u2019s old 10-point programme of 1986.
\nMr Tumwebaze said in the medium term under the ICT sector, \u201cthe President wants the Ministry of ICT to start and build a strong department of electronics that will ensure assembling of computers, among other electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President wants to see responsible and disciplined media reporting that is not injurious to the image of Uganda and tasked government agencies to always communicate timely and factually about government work and thus the reason he merged the communication agencies into one ministry for easy coordination,\u201d Mr Tumwebaze said in the statement. <\/p>\n

The President, according to Mr Tumwebaze, however, noted that all the 20 listed priorities notwithstanding, the issues which must always have the first call on the budget resources remain defence and security, electricity generation and distribution, tarmacking of the already identified roads in the NRM manifesto 2016-2021; concluding all the remaining funding modalities for the Standard Gauge Railway project to start; acquisition of Japanese road equipment for districts for routine maintenance of feeder roads.<\/p>\n

Other core priorities are support to operation wealth creation (Naads) to scale up the supply of inputs to farmers with special attention to the 68 per cent homesteads that still operate outside the money economy because of being subsistence producers, supporting and financing of industrial parks in the already identified 22 zones, continued investment in education and health programmes and financing of the science innovation, youth and women funds.<\/p>\n

{{The president\u2019s 10-20 point programme over the years}}<\/p>\n

20-point programme of 2016
\n1. Lower the cost of electricity
\n2. Lower cost of transport
\n3. Build 22 Industrial Parks to attract investors
\n4. Uganda Investment Authority must get all the necessary licences in two days
\n5. There must be zero tolerance to corruption.
\n6. Poor regulation must be handled
\n7. Converting 68 per cent of the homesteads from subsistence to commercial agriculture.
\n8. Expedite the granting of oil production licences to enable actual production start 2019\/2020.
\n9. Reform minerals sector.
\n10. Protect environment.
\n11. Address service delivery decisively, focusing on healthcare, Education and feeder roads
\n12. Stop illegal land evictions
\n13. Providing accommodation\/social services for security officers
\n14.Setting up a national airline
\n15.Elimination of our indebtedness to the army veterans
\n16. Improve government communication;
\n17. Support the judiciary with all the human financial resources to improve the justice system
\n18. Fight against crime and then, the issue of urban physical planning.
\n19.Support the water sector to widen safe water coverage
\n20. Intensify resource mobilisation for fulfilment of the agreed upon priorities<\/p>\n

{{10-point programme of 1986}}<\/p>\n

\u2022 Democracy
\n\u2022 Security
\n\u2022 Consolidation of national security and elimination of all forms of sectarianism
\n\u2022 Defending and consolidating national Independence
\n\u2022 Building an independent, integrated and self-sustaining national economy
\n\u2022 Restoration and improvement of social services and the rehabilitation of the war-ravaged areas
\n\u2022 Elimination of corruption and misuse of power
\n\u2022 Redressing errors that have resulted in the dislocation of sections of the population and improvement of others
\n\u2022 Co-operation with other African countries in defending human and democratic rights of our brothers in other parts of Africa
\n\u2022 Following an economic strategy of mixed economy,<\/p>\n

{{Revised 10-point programme, 2012}}<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fighting ideological disorientation
\n\u2022 Eliminating sectarianism
\n\u2022 Improving education to refine human resource
\n\u2022 Facilitating private sector-led economic growth
\n\u2022 Developing road, rail and electricity infrastructure
\n\u2022 Market expansion through regional integration
\n\u2022 Pursue industrialisation for exports value addition
\n\u2022 Develop the service sector to create jobs
\n\u2022 Modernise agriculture to increase household incomes
\n\u2022 Deepen democratic governance.<\/p>\n

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