FDC gaining from our failures- Museveni

President Museveni has castigated the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders in Rukungiri District for not reaching out to the youth and the vulnerable people, making the opposition FDC to take advantage of the gap.
He said with the NRM concentrating on the rich and the elite class, FDC has been appealing to the neglected youths who follow former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye despite him providing nothing and having no record of performance.
"You leaders, chairmen learn to reach out to all people. Jim (Maj. Gen Muhwezi) knows how we fought war in Luweero. When we were fighting in Luweero, we did not pass through Bishops, there is no Bishop I consulted, not even one," President Museveni said.
He was speaking during a commissioning of a youth savings and credit cooperative at Kasoroza trading centre in Nyakagyeme sub county Rukungiri district on Friday.
"You confine yourselves in the local elite. My contact is a house girl in Kampala. That is how we managed the war. It's how Jesus worked. I ask you people of NRM that you penetrate and reach these people, you hear that FDC is penetrating our people, they are passing through these young ones, like this one (pointing at his contact), those who have been left aside without being reached, those are the ones FDC comes and takes. Besigye is using children we do not reach, those we neglect," he said.
"People of Rukungiri, you became infested with FDC disease, FDC, failed you getting leaders who would have helped you and you chose those who can't help you and you never thought of keeping contact with those who have a record of transforming. Us as NRM have a record of transforming people from the worst and our record is visible. To follow someone you need to see the track record; the FDC you joined where is its track record, what has it ever done? So now taking our people in FDC who took them there? to benefit what?"

The SACCO was an initiative of a young woman, Ms Scovia Atuheire whom President Museveni said is a house girl in Kampala.

"So what has brought me here is to launch and reach out to these young people so that they don't get neglected and FDC gets to them and start telling them lies; that they start protesting and fighting with the army. There is a child who died here in Rukungiri that he was fighting with police," he said.

"I have reached out to all of them because I am like couch grass. The Baganda had a song when we were fighting, that Museveni is like a black jack that has already made fruit."
President Museveni donated Shs50 million to the three SACCOs founded under the initiative and a Shs300 million truck to help the SACCO members.

He also donated Shs50 million to an onion growing organization, Boona Bagaigahare Nyekundeire group.
Former Minister and Rujumbura county MP Maj. Gen Jim Muhwezi, Prof Mondo Kagonyera, Dr Alex Kamugisha, Rukungiri woman MP Ms Winfred Matsiko among other local leaders attended the function.