Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni has opened up about some of the feeding choices he made in the past that have kept him healthy.
The president revealed some of these untold secrets while meeting East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) members at the Uganda Parliament chambers on Tuesday.
“In 1965, Kenyans liberated me from Coca-Cola. The beverage was the only decent drink one would find then. One day, I came across packed milk, KCC, from Kenya. I stopped drinking Coca-Cola but also began contributing to the prosperity of Kenyan farmers by consuming their milk,” Museveni revealed.
In 2013, a local daily carried a story indicating that the president avoid reckless meals to stay healthy.
“I don’t eat fish because I call it snake, I don’t eat chicken because I think if you eat chicken you will be unstable, I don’t eat pigs, I don’t eat very many of those things which you people eat,” he told the BBC’s Stephen Sackur during a Hard Talk programme.
The paper added that besides matooke, Museveni takes rice and either boiled sweet or Irish potatoes served with beef, groundnut stew with vegetables as a constant.
Other accounts also contradict the president’s public version that he does not eat birds because he is said to taste chicken, although occasionally. Comrades of the NRA guerilla war that brought Museveni to power in 1986 have randomly said chicken was among delicacies in the bush reserved for the Military High Command that he chaired, much to the chagrin of other rebel fighters who griped about the discriminatory class system.
