Movement committees and MPs are in a â€˜grand planâ€™ to campaign for the â€˜Yesâ€™ side in the referendum, reports Joyce Namutebi.

President Yoweri Museveni, who has been to many districts, is scheduled to address a rally tomorrow at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala. Kampala RDC Stanley Kinyatta said about one million supporters would attend.

Parliament was scheduled to be adjourned yesterday to allow MPs to campaign. The Kampala District Movement Conference chaired by the Minister of State for Primary Education, Nyombi Thembo, yesterday resolved to participate in the referendum and campaign for the â€˜Yesâ€™ vote.

At a meeting held at the Fairway Hotel, Kampala, it also resolved to work with the interim NRM committee to mobilise Kampala residents to attend Museveniâ€™s rally.
Thembo said the objective of the Fairway meeting was to ask members to go out and popularise the â€˜Yesâ€™ vote.

The referendum to decide whether Uganda returns to party politics or keep the Movement system takes place on Thursday next week.

Thembo said all district Movement committees nationwide met yesterday on the subject.
Thembo, who was responding to membersâ€™ concerns about mobilisation for the opening up of politics, said, â€œWe have a delay, yes, but we have a grand plan.â€ He said by Tuesday every voter in the country would have been asked to vote â€˜Yes.â€™

Members had complained of ill-facilitation and that some â€˜bigâ€™ people getting money were not campaigning.

Asked why the change to party politics which the Movement has described as bad, Thembo said, â€œNo political system can survive in a changing environment without adapting to those changes. You must change at a time when you still have time to bargain your change. You have to change when you are still strong.â€

On Tom Kayongoâ€™s concerns that some people have been cleared to use the â€˜Yesâ€™ campaign to promote themselves for the 2006 elections, Thembo said the President had allowed no such thing.
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