Friday, November 14,
2025 - Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has blamed Kenya’s frequent
change of leadership for his decades‑long struggle to secure access to the
Indian Ocean.
Speaking during a radio interview at Mbale State Lodge on
November 8th, Museveni said negotiations have dragged on for 30
years without resolution.
“I have been negotiating access to the Indian Ocean for 30
years, and every time I finish with one Kenyan president, a new one comes, and
we start again from zero.”
“Why can’t the agreement be made permanent if they know they
will keep changing presidents?”
“I am tired of negotiating,” Museveni lamented.
The Ugandan leader argued that his country is entitled to
ocean access for economic and strategic purposes, describing it as “madness”
for coastal nations to deny such rights.
“How do I export my products? That ocean belongs to me; I am
entitled to it.”
“In the future, we are going to have wars,” he warned,
likening Uganda’s situation to tenants in an apartment block forced to share
common facilities.
Reacting to the remarks, Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal
Secretary Korir Sing’Oei avoided direct confrontation but expressed confidence
in Museveni’s grasp of regional sovereignty.
“I will not comment much on what President Museveni said
with respect to our oceans.”
“But I believe very much that he does have a fairly great
understanding of our territory and the nature of our rights,” Sing’Oei stated.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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