President Yoweri Museveni has been described as a ‘managing director’, the role first lady and Minister of Education, Janet Kataaha Museveni has played in the first family.
This was part of President Museveni’s sweet message to the wife as she turned 76th on Monday.
“ Good news. Today, the 24th of June, the Managing Director of “the Museveni Incorporated”, the Matriarch of the Museveni group, the Mother, the Grandmother, my God-given comrade-in-arms of nearly 51 years, my dear wife, Maama Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha Museveni, has turned 76 years of age. Praised be the Lord who helped us to navigate through so many challenges and gave us so many blessings. I refer to her as the Managing Director, because while all of us are shareholders and Directors in the Museveni Incorporated, she is the Managing Director,” Museveni posted on his X.
The president praised the wife for keeping the family, including their young children;Muhoozi, Natasha, Patience, and Diana—Muhoozi was 6 years old, and Diana was 6 months old between 1986 and 1981 during the bush war.
“While our family had been in exile before (1971-1979), I had been with them in Tanzania-coming and going. However, during this time, she was with the children alone in Kenya and Sweden. Although by this time, I was well known and I had many African friends (SamoraMachel, Shamuyarira, Mwammar Gaddaffi, friends in the USA, Arap Moi, etc.), systems do not always work well.”
“I salute the Swedish for supporting my family between 1983 and 1986. I salute Ambassador Mirjam Blaak for making the arrangements. I thank God who gave me Maama Janet to give me a family even as I wandered around as a freedom fighter.”
