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From: Chris Opoka-Okumu 
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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:42 AM
Subject: All disabled people were born under Obote, says Museveni


      Museveni is politicising disability and consequently making fun and distortions of their situation. This is serious for a head of state. He deserves to be impeached and disabled as well.

      COO

      All disabled were born under Obote - Museveni 
      By Patrick Elobu Angonu 
      Oct 16, 2003


            SOROTI - President Yoweri Museveni caused a stir at Soroti sports ground yesterday when he said that all people suffering from polio in Uganda were born during the regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote.

            "Whenever you see a deformed person or anyone suffering from polio he/she was born during Obote and Amin regimes and not under the Movement government," Mr Museveni said.

            The President was officiating at the launch of the 2003 national immunisation exercise against measles.

            Museveni said he wanted children born under the NRM to be fit "like him" so as to be able to fight the Lord's Resistance Army rebels.

            The President said his government eliminated polio from Uganda in 1997. He told the crowd that when the NRM took over power in 1986 96,000 children were dying every year from the six killer diseases.

            Museveni blasted critics of the immunisation exercise - and those who oppose his plans to build health centres across the country as "night dancers", sending the crowd into laughter
           


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