‘Movt using Reform ideas’
May 03, 2004
THE Reform Agenda (RA) yesterday said President Yoweri Museveni’s government was implementing “Reform Now†ideas
By Jude Etyang
THE Reform Agenda (RA) yesterday said President Yoweri Museveni’s government was implementing “Reform Now†ideas, including last week’s proposal for the suspension of graduated tax.
The deputy secretary general, Louis Otika, told journalists at the group’s weekly briefing that the movement government had realised that RA had the correct pro-people programme from the beginning and are now promising to reconsider their positions on graduated tax, federo and on the size of Parliament.
Otika’s statement follow a proposal by President Museveni reportedly that graduated tax be suspended effective 2006 to ease the burden on peasants.
“President Museveni and his cabinet have finally realised that the RA had the correct, pro-people programme from the beginning and promising to reconsider their position on graduated tax, federo, size of parliament and holding presidential and parliamentary elections on the same day,†he said.
Otika said during the 2001 presidential campaigns in which RA chairman Col. Kizza Besigye lost to Museveni, RA promised it would abolish graduated tax.
Otika said RA’s positions on the said issues are documented in both Besigye’s campaign manifesto code named “Reform Now†and in the party’s submissions to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC).
THE Reform Agenda (RA) yesterday said President Yoweri Museveni’s government was implementing “Reform Now†ideas, including last week’s proposal for the suspension of graduated tax.
The deputy secretary general, Louis Otika, told journalists at the group’s weekly briefing that the movement government had realised that RA had the correct pro-people programme from the beginning and are now promising to reconsider their positions on graduated tax, federo and on the size of Parliament.
Otika’s statement follow a proposal by President Museveni reportedly that graduated tax be suspended effective 2006 to ease the burden on peasants.
“President Museveni and his cabinet have finally realised that the RA had the correct, pro-people programme from the beginning and promising to reconsider their position on graduated tax, federo, size of parliament and holding presidential and parliamentary elections on the same day,†he said.
Otika said during the 2001 presidential campaigns in which RA chairman Col. Kizza Besigye lost to Museveni, RA promised it would abolish graduated tax.
Otika said RA’s positions on the said issues are documented in both Besigye’s campaign manifesto code named “Reform Now†and in the party’s submissions to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC).