{{Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has advised Rwandans to develop their Industrial sector and export processed products.}}
Museveni urged Rwanda and other African countries to stop “donating” their wealth to the West.
In his key note speech at a dinner hosted in his favour as chief guest to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) at Serena Kigali hotel last evening, Museveni stressed that by exporting unprocessed products, Rwanda and other countries “donate” a lot of wealth to the West.
“We should stop being donors. Lack of industrialization and selling of unprocessed products coupled with a small internal market makes us one of the biggest donors,” he said.
“A small internal market linked with production of the same products means we cannot develop these economies with lack of industrialization and selling of unprocessed products.”
“We should stop being donors,” Museveni emphasised.
Among other bottlenecks to Africa’s development, he listed an underdeveloped services sector, un-commercialized agricultural sector, and lack of democracy.
Museveni who began his speech in Kinyarwanda congratulated RPF on their 25th anniversary, saying they turned a very hopeless situation into a situation of hope.
“Whenever I came here after we had captured Kabale in 1985 fighting for our freedom. Leaders of Rwanda were telling me that Rwandese are too many and cannot fit in the country so some should be taken to Gabon.
But now I am glad to hear a different tune from Kigali.
That’s what I used to tell late Juvenal Habyarimana that how come Holland the same size as Rwanda with 16 million Dutch can fit and Rwanda 7million people cannot?” he asked.
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