Kadaga slams UPC

Sep 20, 2005

PARLIAMENT deputy speaker Rebecca Kadaga has criticised the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) for locking Lira Munici-pality MP Cecilia Ogwal out of the party’s primary elections to select leaders for the delegate’s conference to be held soon.

By Apollo Mubiru and Mariam Nalunkuuma

PARLIAMENT deputy speaker Rebecca Kadaga has criticised the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) for locking Lira Munici-pality MP Cecilia Ogwal out of the party’s primary elections to select leaders for the delegate’s conference to be held soon.

“I was seriously pained yesterday when I read in the press that Hon. Cecilia Ogwal was locked out at village level. Shame on UPC for locking out one of the strongest voices of women in Uganda’s politics,” Kadaga (left) said.

She added, “When I read the report I asked myself, didn’t we make a mistake to embrace multiparty politics? Because if it was in the other arrangement, Hon. Cecilia should have picked the nomination forms the following day.”

Kadaga made the remarks while presiding over a consultative national dialogue on the challenges of political transition under the theme ‘Understanding the principles and practice of multiparty politics,’ organised by Northern Uganda Women Forum at Parliament yesterday.

Kadaga said, “I called Hon. Ogwal to console her but she told me that what happened to her would most likely happen to women in other parties. We should have tolerance, unity and harmony as we go through the transition.”

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