President Yoweri Museveni has advised Ugandans to eat muwogo (cassava) as an alternative to bread, whose price has gone up due to the current hike in prices of essential commodities.
While addressing the gathering at Kololo ceremonial grounds to celebrate Labour Day on Sunday, Museveni said the skyrocketing prices were a result of natural calamities like COVID-19 and exacerbated by man-made external factors like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which have disrupted the global supply chain and created a scarcity of products.
“If there is no bread eat mwogo (cassava). Africans really confuse themselves. If you’re complaining that there’s no bread or wheat, please eat mwogo. I don’t eat bread myself,” Museveni said.
Recently, the public has been counting on the government to find a solution to the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities. However, Museveni’s comments are a big blow to the hopes of many vulnerable Ugandans.
Meanwhile, Museveni said that before the NRM came to power, there was no government giving people money to get out of poverty.
“Getting out of poverty was everyone’s private business,” he said.