Commonwealth lauds Museveni for Covid-19 response Wednesday March 17 2021 Commonwealth Secretary General Dr Patricia Scotland (purple dress) and Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at State house on March 16, 2021. PHOTO/PPU. Summary Advertisement The Commonwealth Secretary General Rt Hon Patricia Scotland has hailed President Yoweri Museveni for the ‘proper response’ to Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda. “I must commend you your excellency and your leadership for what you did right from the very beginning in terms of leading this by listening to science, listening to the empirical evidence, planning and helping to get the population to support the measures,” she said. Ms Scotland made the remarks when she paid a courtesy call on the President at State House Entebbe on Tuesday.