Museveni should address political question, graft - Mao

By Moses Walubiri and Franko Olong
 
Democratic Party president, Norbert Mao, has urged President Yoweri Museveni to settle the political question on peaceful transfer of power, describing the ten strategic bottlenecks in his recent state of the nation address as “diversionary.”
 
Museveni last week highlighted ten strategic impediments to Uganda’s development; key among which was what he called “ideological disorientation.”
 
Addressing journalists at the party headquarters on Tuesday, the former Gulu district chairman faulted the president for sidestepping “key issues on corruption, increasing economic disparity despite increase in GDP” and a democratic process he contends has gone off the rails.

Flanked by DP Legal adviser, Mukasa Mbide and Florence Namayanja, Mao said the history of Uganda’s ex-presidents spending the evening of their lives in lonely exile – far from their family members can be reversed if institutions that can anchor peaceful transfer of power are put in place.
 
“We can emulate Kenya and peacefully change leadership if we have an independent Electoral Commission, avoid putting the national treasury at the disposal of the ruling party and stop the military from meddling in the electoral process,” Mao added.