Movement House Is A Private Venture â€" NPC

THE National Political Commissar and Minister without Portfolio, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, has said the proposed Movement house is a private initiative, reports Joyce Namutebi. He said the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi, is not a hardship training centre.He was appearing before the parliamentary committee on presidential and foreign affairs yesterday.The committee chaired by James Nsaba Buturo was scrutinising the policy statement for the Movement Secretariat for this financial year.Kiyonga explained that the President had publicly said some people closely attached to the Movement would like to have some tangible asset to leave behind.“That (Movement house) is going to be a private initiative,” he said, adding that this was an idea by people who like the system and want to put up a house.“What is happening is still in the kitchen. The idea is not concretised to see how its going to be handled legally,” he said. Elijah Okupa (Kasilo) said MPs were invited to State House and that a committee was constituted to make plans for the fundraising for the Movement House. “Who is this private person?” he asked.On Kyankwanzi, Aggrey Awori (Samia Bugwe North) said there was a seminar of 3,000 people organised by the Secretariat there. “When you bring a chairman of a district and you treat him like a soldier and the ladies are not accorded amenities, it’s a hardship training centre,” he said.Awori said at an appropriate time, he would move a motion that military training be de-linked from political education.Ends