Do not buy second-hand imported clothes as they are in some way imbued with the fall-out of dead white people from Europe.
This is the view of Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, who has warned his countrymen against buying and using imported second-hand clothes termed mivumba.
According to Museveni, such clothes are gathered from Europeans who have died.
"They are for dead people.
“When a white person dies, their clothes are dumped. I do not know which person gathers their clothes and sends them to Africa. We should stop wearing them," Museveni said.
"We have people here who produce new clothes but they cannot infiltrate the market because the second-hand clothes are already all over.”
Museveni made the statements while commissioning 15 factories at Sino-Mbale Industrial Park in Mbale District last week. He also broke ground for nine other factories at the same park.
"These investors have spectacles that enable them to detect where there's money. It's upon us to provide a conducive environment that enables whoever wants to invest to come. That is our role," Museveni said.
"With a proper policy, everything does itself; that is why a person you least know about approaches you that they want to set up a textile factory.
“They do this because they know Ugandans must dress up and they have the required raw materials here needed to produce clothes. Then that's how government comes in to be a catalyst for the process by providing electricity, peace, roads and other needed infrastructure," he added.
