This time Beti O. Kamya was wide of the mark on the Movement!

Nov 17, 2003

SIR— I commend Beti O. Kamya for he usual positive and constructive criticism of the Government in which she often goes ahead to suggest a possible remedy.

SIR— I commend Beti O. Kamya for he usual positive and constructive criticism of the Government in which she often goes ahead to suggest a possible remedy.

This is different from people like UPC’s James Rwanyarare and now Eriya Kategaya and others who only criticise that “relying on the masses (Ugandan peasants) is
retrogressive” without suggesting a remedy to that.

However, in her November 9 commentary in Sunday Vision, she too got it wrong on chakamchaka.

When she claims that the Movement has only excelled
in deliberately misleading Ugandans by distorting facts and history during its stay in power.

The major reason for chakamchaka is to instill a sense of patriotism
and nationalism in Ugandans through awareness of their environment politically, economically and socially.

The national civic education curriculum she talked about, would only concentrate on the school-going population, denying knowledge to those above the school-age bracket (peasants), yet they are adequately covered in
the outreach programmes of chakamchaka at subcounty level.

Furthermore, chakamchaka stresses the pros and cons of multipartyism, emphasising the post-independence Uganda compared with the all-embracing Movement (bus) politics. Otherwise, chakamchaka does not use history to perpetuate divisions and hatred among Ugandans as Beti Kamya would like us to believe.

Charles Lwanga
Bugiri

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