By Olivia Nabaggala
Government has refuted claims that the rolled out patriotism courses in schools are intended to indoctrinate young ones with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ideology.
Addressing the press at the Uganda media center in Kampala, the Commissioner in charge of patriotism Col. Patrick Mwesigye says patriotism courses have nothing to do with politics but rather to teach young ones how to love their country and the use of a gun to defend themselves.
A total of 750 senior six leavers from all the districts in Uganda and students of Shimoni Primary Teachers College will undergo a two weeks Patriotism training course at Shimoni Primary Teachers College grounds at Bulindo, Wakiso District.
The training is organized by the National Secretariat for Patriotic Corps (NSPC), will take place from 27 May to 8 June 2017.
Mwesigye emphasizes that the training is in line with their mandate of inculcating patriotism values and norms to all students and all youth of Uganda through patriotism studies.
The NSPC is a presidential initiative launched by President Museveni in 2009 to produce a “new breed of enlightened population committed and devoted to national causes, and have the love for the country.”
Over the years NSPC says it has trained over three hundred thousand (300,000) students and youths, and have established over 4,000 patriotic Clubs in secondary and Tertiary institutions in Uganda.
The target is to train over 1,500,000 secondary school students and their teachers, 6,000 students in UTCs and NTCs, and over 84000 in universities and other tertiary institutions of learning.
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