“This is a place of sacrifice. The NRM is a party of sacrifice,” President Museveni said, warning against leaders who use public office for personal gain.

“We are to demand performance from both the NRM and the opposition. As long as you are getting money from the government, you must check what is happening on the ground,” Museveni said.

The President also applauded the riders for operating under organized leadership and encouraged them to continue mobilizing communities to embrace government poverty alleviation programs.

“The population of 45 million citizens if not properly planned for, the peace that you have worked so hard to achieve will be lost. There is no person that can be governed if they are hungry,” Kavuma said.

The President directed veteran leaders to account for UGX 231 billion disbursed over the years under a 2009 arrangement that provided financial support to liberation war leaders, their spouses, and support cadres.

Uganda has intensified efforts to contain Ebola, with President Museveni assuring the World Health Organization (WHO) that the country remains vigilant and prepared to stop the outbreak.

“He delivered a personal memoir that begins in 1959, when he visited a stock farm as a Primary Seven pupil, compared milk production figures from 1986, recounted bus fares from 1967 from Rushere to Katongore, and described sleeping next to sheaves of millet in Naama. This is an autobiography,” Centenary said.

“I don't want to hear that there is poverty in homesteads that have land and yet money is there at the parish level. If you are a minister and I come to your village and people are still suffering, I will sack you. I want to inform everybody that I have been monitoring and I don't want to embarrass mature people. The money is there on the ground; let's use it to get our people out of poverty,” Museveni said.