If you have elections based on lies then you are killing your country, President Yoweri Museveni stated at the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of US$ 129 million state-of-the-art Akii-Bua Olympic Stadium in Lira City.
The President castigated political actors spreading lies tying the upcoming Presidential and general elections to the project.
“No Akii-Bua Olympic Stadium, no votes for NRM. So please we are tired of lies. Elections based on lies are not good elections, they should be based on the truth. If you have elections based on lies then you are killing your country,” President Museveni warned.
Egyptian firm SAMCO National Construction Company and Khater Sports have been hired to construct the stadium which is projected to take a record period of 20 months to complete.
The President explained that the government had to prioritize the implementation of the competing programmes on a small resource envelope.
He said the government did not deliberately abandon sports or the construction of stadiums but had to first deal with the basic necessities in the country like peace, infrastructure, education and health, among others.
“Therefore, the delay of the construction of Akii-Bua Stadium was not because we did not care, it was because we had to survive first; peace, food, education, health and infrastructure, among others,” he said.
“When some people try to say,Oh,this government is useless, they have forgotten sports – I am a sportsman myself, but I couldn’t start with sports when there was no peace or food in the country. It is not that we didn’t know about sports but one by one makes a bundle,” President Museveni explained.
He also cautioned the wanainchi against some political actors who claim to be able to do everything at once and always to treat them as liars.
