President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has unleashed a secret in clocking old age saying he has all the years avoided anger and alcohol.
Museveni has marked 77 years of age today, September 15.
He shares his birthday with Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) which celebrates 30 years of existence after its inception in 1991.
The President presided over URA’s Thanksgiving Ceremony at Kololo independence grounds where he made the revelation.
Museveni said for all these years he has eluded anger because when a human being gets incensed his lifespan reduces.
Museveni who was flanked by his wife Maama Janet Kataaha revealed that only his daughters had almost cut short his life when they started treating and plaiting their hair, “okwokya enviiri.”
“I told them if they wanted to see me clock 100 years of age, they should stop roasting their hair,” Museveni said.
Roasting hair in his context refers to retouching hair; a hair straightening technique used by many women in Uganda.
Museveni was triggered to make the secret public by Minister of Finance, Hon Matia Kasaija who is five months older than him.
Kasaija reminded his contemporary that sometime back as the pair reminisced on lifetime events, Museveni said he wanted live 100 years but only one things was bound to fail his dream and that is “my daughters.”
However, Museveni didn’t expound to Kasaija how his daughters were impeding his dream.
When he took to the podium to address the gathering, Museveni began by demystifying Kasaija’s myth.
Museveni said he was always against the practice of his daughters burning their hair to look like Indians.
“I told them. Look you are very beautiful girls from the Abasiita clan. You don’t need to roast your hair, just be like your mother,” Museveni said.
The First Lady’s hair style is popularly known “Janet Kut” among Ugandans.
The President jokingly said that since his daughters, Patience Museveni, Natasha Museveni and Diana Museveni all listened to their father and dropped the western practices of styling their hair, nothing can stop him from clocking 100 years of age.
