Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has completed a 195 km walk in honor of liberation fighters who won a five-year guerrilla war in 1986.

Museveni on Friday told hundreds of supporters at the decommissioning ceremony of the trekkers at Birembo, in the western district of Kakumiro, that the six-day walk showed interesting elements of endurance and maneuver.

“These same elements I witnessed with the National Resistance Army fighters during the 1986 liberation struggle,” he said.

“Bazukulu (grandchildren and youths) prepare yourself ideologically and physically to push forward the struggle,” Museveni said.

Museveni began the walk, dubbed “Afrika Kwetu,” loosely translated as “Our Africa,” from Galamba, in the central district of Wakiso.

He was joined by 1,500 veterans, youths and well-wishers in the trek through seven districts.

The trek aimed at retracing some of the tough routes used by Museveni, his fellow guerilla fighters and the heroic exertions of the country’s freedom fighters in the resistance war, which was launched on Feb. 6, 1981.

Museveni led a similar walk in 1999. (Xinhua)