Kisoro – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Monday took his wealth-creation message to Kigezi as he launched the Western Uganda leg of his 2026 presidential campaign, rallying Ugandans to embrace income-generating enterprises and support the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to safeguard the country’s socio-economic gains.
Addressing thousands at Saaza Grounds in Kisoro District, the NRM national chairman and presidential flag bearer said the next phase of Uganda’s progress depends on transforming individual households through wealth creation, especially in rural areas.
He told supporters that while peace and development remain important achievements of the NRM, the country must now prioritise household income if it is to make “a qualitative leap into high middle-income status.”
“The reasons we are here are to ask you to support the National Resistance Movement and to give you the reasons why,” he said.
“People move around saying, ‘support me,’ but ask them what they have done for the country… Many of Uganda’s problems — sugar, cement, salt, clothes — have been solved by the NRM.”
Museveni emphasised that the heart of his campaign is wealth creation. “We have tarmac roads up to Bunagana and Cyanika, but people don’t sleep on the road,” he noted. “That is why the NRM emphasises wealth creation for every household.”
He highlighted examples of rural Ugandans who have prospered through commercial agriculture, including George Matongo of Ngoma, Nakaseke, who produces 900 litres of milk daily and earns about Shs 21 million a month, and Joseph Basangwa of Kamuli, who now earns Shs 20 million a day from poultry farming.
He reiterated the 4-acre model introduced in the 1996 manifesto, encouraging farmers to diversify into coffee, fruits, dairy, poultry, piggery, and fish farming. Museveni also noted that Uganda’s job growth is now driven by commercial agriculture, industry, services, and ICT, citing the rise in factory employment from 480,000 to 1.3 million and pointing to the Sino-Mbale Industrial Park as a model of expanding manufacturing.
While wealth creation dominated his message, the President also outlined the NRM’s seven major contributions, beginning with peace, which he said remains the foundation of progress. He praised Kisoro residents for supporting efforts to secure the once-volatile border region.