Sectarians are opportunists - Museveni

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Kampala. President Museveni has said the diversity of Africans has been “mis-defined” by self-seekers and opportunists who don’t mind about their people’s prosperity.
While addressing the 4th Tana High-Level Forum on security in Africa at the weekend in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the President said there was need to suppress agents of sectarianism on the continent.
Mr Museveni said it was an act of short-sightedness for any person to emphasise the existing diversities within societies, whether religious or otherwise, instead of promoting commonalities that mutually benefit humanity.
He said secularism was largely an ideological issue and noted that leaders need to diagnose their societies and sensitise people they lead on what is important for their own prosperity and what was not.
Citing China, the President said despite the fact that the country is secular and its administration does not put emphasis on religion; the country has continuously made leap forward to currently being the second biggest economy.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Mr Heilmariam Desalegn, addressing the same conference, said politicised faith had no room in the world and is an act of self-seekers.
He called for joint action by all African states to check their action and stop their ill motives.