BBC has a normal, straight news article, Uganda opens first HIV drug plant.

But New Vision has a Museveni-quoting-worth-requoting, in part, article:

“It is very embarrassing and annoying that there are some saboteurs who were opposed to this project. They prefer to import. We cannot keep importing drugs.”

Without naming them, the President said there were people in the system who did not see the “wisdom” of such a factory in Uganda. “They dragged their feet to sabotage it,” Museveni said.

“You see in the government side we also have opposition that sabotages programmes. But they have no choice but to do what is expected of them because ours is an elected government,” Museveni said.

He denounced leaders whom he described as “blind, ignorant and defiant” and praised Vice-President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya for following the plant project to the end.

He assured the company that the Government would fulfill its obligations. “We are going to buy the drugs you will manufacture. But I must stress that the drugs should be of comparable quality, price and time-bound. There is no way I can refuse to drink my own mubisi (banana juice).”

On allegations that he had given away Uganda Prisons land, Museveni triggered laughter when he said: “These 15 acres that I gave for this ultra-modern plant will earn an estimated $36m per year. Could we earn that amount of money from the potatoes, cassava and maize that were here?”

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