Sam Amanyire and Badru D. Mulumba
2 September 2002
President Yoweri Museveni has said that if he stood for elections against a cow in a police barracks, he would get 10 votes against the cow's 100.
Speaking at the wedding reception of a police cadet Muhabwe Labani at Kitagata S.S Saturday, the president said the police hates him because they are criminals.
He said the force is still rotten and that he has hope his cadres who joined as police cadets will redeem it.
"Police ekikanzire ni twetenga abantu nkaba kugikanduura," the president said, meaning "Police is rotten, we need such people to clean it."
Muhabwe is a former youth mobiliser attached to the President's Office.
"It is okay for police to hate me because they are criminals and know I don't support what they do," Museveni said.
"Even if a cow stood against me in a police barracks, it will get 100 votes and I get 10 votes. I always lost badly in their barracks."
The president said that other Movement cadres would soon join other government departments to clean them as well. President Museveni last year appointed Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala to head the police force.
He said old guards of the Movement are fading out therefore it is only the young cadres like Muhabwe who will sustain it.
He said the Movement government is the best and should be supported because it has managed to cling to power longer than any other government.
"UPC was toppled twice, how can that be when I have firmly held to power for 16 years on end," said Museveni. "I was in DP and UPC so I know them very well as hollow parties."
He said DP is using religion as its ideology and said it has no destination.
Museveni also said that he led the UNLF offensive against Idi Amin, but when it came to sharing power he was left out - and that was the reason he went to the bush.
"I led the '79 liberation war but when it came to sharing I was left out," he said.
The president thanked Muhabwe for helping the Movement win elections in 1996 and 2001 and said that despite his busy schedule he had to attend the party to show support to his cadres.
Muhabwe got married to Rose Kyamutonde of Mutala, Ruhinda in Bushenyi. Several RDCs attended the function.
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