President Museveni meets Speaker, Deputy few hours to the State of the Nation address.

 

President Yoweri Museveni has held talks with the Speaker of Parliament Rt Hon Anita Among and her Deputy Thomas Tayebwa on Tuesday in Preparation for today's State of the Nation address.  

The President will deliver the State of the Nation address today. The event, which will be carried on all media  platforms, will take place at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala.

 Some of the issues expected to be prominent in the president’s address are economic growth, soaring national debt, taxation, state of roads, security, and health.

According to Patrick Amuriat, the president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the President’s address should highlight the levels of unemployment, which he said are soaring.

Amuriat who was addressing journalists on Monday, June 5 at party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, said the address should also entail solutions on how the Government intends to cut wasteful expenditures.   

Also, the Democratic Party (DP) says they want the President to give an update on the diverted iron sheets and what will be done to government officials who were reportedly involved in the act.

Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Ismail Kiirya, the president of the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD), a youth wing of DP, said the talk should address the state of health in the country.

On security, Kiirya demanded that the Government gives a satisfying audit into the lives lost in the recent al-Shabaab attack on the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) in Somalia.

Kiirya was addressing the party’s weekly press conference at City House in Kampala. 

The President’s address shall be in fulfillment of the Constitutional requirement under Article 101 (1) of the Constitution