Movement Advises On Parties
Oct 18, 2002
THE Movement on Thursday said multiparty advocates should agree to engage all the people of Uganda in smoothly changing the system of government, reports <b>Geresom Musamali</b>.
THE Movement on Thursday said multiparty advocates should agree to engage all the people of Uganda in smoothly changing the system of government, reports Geresom Musamali.
The Reform Agenda, however, said the methods so far used in involving the people, such as the referendum, are fraudulent and therefore meaningless.
Movement deputy director of research and former Moyo West MP Raphael Baku was representing the National Political Commissar Dr. Crispus Kiyonga at the constitutional appraisal conference.
The Reform Agenda was represented by Robert Ndyomugenyi, the administrative secretary.
Makerere political science lecturer Dr. Yassin Olum presented a paper on the merits of a multiparty system at the Hotel Africana conference sponsored by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Uganda Human Rights Commission.
Olum said there has never been a true multiparty system in Uganda. He said what Uganda had in the past was a misapplication of multipartism to fit selfish interests of leaders.
Baku said the movement was not totally against a return to multipartism but that the process must involve all the people of Uganda.
He said under Article 74 of the constitution there are two ways of changing the political system.
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The Reform Agenda, however, said the methods so far used in involving the people, such as the referendum, are fraudulent and therefore meaningless.
Movement deputy director of research and former Moyo West MP Raphael Baku was representing the National Political Commissar Dr. Crispus Kiyonga at the constitutional appraisal conference.
The Reform Agenda was represented by Robert Ndyomugenyi, the administrative secretary.
Makerere political science lecturer Dr. Yassin Olum presented a paper on the merits of a multiparty system at the Hotel Africana conference sponsored by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Uganda Human Rights Commission.
Olum said there has never been a true multiparty system in Uganda. He said what Uganda had in the past was a misapplication of multipartism to fit selfish interests of leaders.
Baku said the movement was not totally against a return to multipartism but that the process must involve all the people of Uganda.
He said under Article 74 of the constitution there are two ways of changing the political system.
Ends