Museveni to Libya: Letting Foreigners 'Fight our Wars is Plundering Africa'

President Yoweri Museveni urged the Libyan leadership to stand up against foreign interference in the governance of their country.

The president, who was meeting the Vice-President of the Libyan Presidential Council Abdullah Al-Lafi at State House Entebbe, said Libya should look into holding an election by mobilizing citizens and educating them about its value.

" I opined that Libya has its owners who should get a chance to make their own mistakes through elections instead of imposing the mistakes of foreigners on them," the president tweeted Wednesday afternoon.

"Libyan leaders should spend more time winning over the Libyan people, elections are fair and strategic in terms of encouraging people to make peace rather than war and everyone should participate without conditions. Getting foreigners to fight our wars is plundering Africa."

Since Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhāfī's death in 2011, the North African nation descended into a civil war that extensively damaged its socio-economic stability.

According to President Museveni, Libya is currently unstable because of lack of ideological preparation.

"It can't be difficult to organize elections," he said.

"Libya has been messed up by outsiders taking advantage of Libyans who were ideologically not well prepared. Let the people now make their choices whether good or bad, it will be their responsibility after all."