{"id":4239,"date":"2021-10-10T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2021-10-10T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:46:55","slug":"covid-19-pandemic-has-proved-ugandas-economic-resilience-president-museveni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/covid-19-pandemic-has-proved-ugandas-economic-resilience-president-museveni\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID -19 PANDEMIC HAS PROVED  UGANDA&#8217;S ECONOMIC RESILIENCE -PRESIDENT MUSEVENI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda \u2018s longest serving President Museveni has picked on the covid-19 experience and the resilience of Uganda to say that the country was in the right place after 59 years of independence . He said that the global pandemic that forced economies to shutdown and left over a million people dead , has proved that developing countries including Uganda can survive and economically  sustain themselves with little or no outside help .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn these two years, as many of you know, we dealt successfully with problems of locusts\u2019 invasion; the rising levels of the waters of the lakes (the floods); the land<strong>\u2013<\/strong>slides; the floating island that were threatening hydro dams and the Covid pandemic,\u201d Gen Museveni stated at a colourful Kololo Independence grounds where the national independence day celebrations where held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Museveni said that Uganda&nbsp;&nbsp; managed to post a &nbsp;3.4% &nbsp;growth rate&nbsp; even when half of the economy remains under lockdown and &nbsp;it is projected to grow at a rate of &nbsp;3.8%, the Covid19 related shutdowns notwithstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He however lashed out at the visible rampant &nbsp;corruption which he said was now affecting &nbsp;the country\u2019s . \u201cAll these achievements, are in spite of the corruption of some public officials, including some of the political actors. I congratulate the whistle-blowers who<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;patriotically<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;expose these criminals, parasites and traitors to their own people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Museveni vowed that government was now in a better position to deal with the problem of corruption decisively .&nbsp; At Kololo grounds Ugandan innovators and entrepreneurs exhibited &nbsp;various locally made products following government\u2019s efforts to support value addition and he BUBU policy .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the prominent ones to exhibit included Makerere university working with Uganda \u2018s automakers -Kiira Motors Corporation are in the last stages of putting on the market a local made medical ventilator called Bulamu to facilitate the fight against the Covid -19 pandemic . Museveni said that once the equipment if certified , he will have the Bulamu ventilators bought by government and deployed in health facilities across the country .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS Uganda \u2018s longest serving President Museveni has picked on the covid-19 experience and the resilience of Uganda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG-20211009-WA0202.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7632,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-tells-americans-how-uganda-and-other-african-countries-survived-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":4239,"position":0},"title":"PRESIDENT MUSEVENI TELLS AMERICANS HOW UGANDA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES SURVIVED THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"December 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"President Yoweri Museveni while attending a sideline health session at the Washington Convention Center has told the Americans how Uganda and other African countries survived the deadly Covid-19 pandemic that left more than a million people dead across world . 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