Reform Agenda to register as party
Apr 18, 2004
THE Reform Agenda (RA), a pressure group of Col. Kizza Besigye, has resolved to register as a political party. According to members, this would rob the Government and security organs of an excuse to break up its rallies and arrest RA supporters.
By Henry Mukasa and Geresom Musamali
THE Reform Agenda (RA), a pressure group of Col. Kizza Besigye, has resolved to register as a political party. According to members, this would rob the Government and security organs of an excuse to break up its rallies and arrest RA supporters.
The law requires political organisations to register.
RA delegates attending a national district coordinators’ consultative meeting at Christ the King Hall in Kampala over the weekend, mandated the RA steering committee to register immediately.
“The RA reiterates its unwavering confidence in the ideals, vision and mission of RA under the visionary leadership of Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye. The national steering committee in Kampala should take immediate steps to register as a political party as we continue to challenge any remaining obnoxious laws,†the delegates resolved.
The resolutions were read out at the end of their meeting by RA general secretary Geoffrey Ekanya.
The meeting also supported the coalition of all political organisations opposed to the incumbent.
“RA fully embraces the idea of forging a coalition with similar visionary political organisations with the aim of thoroughly routing the entire Museveni administration at the end of his constitutional last term in 2006,†the statement added.
Deputy RA chairman Sam Njuba said unlike the traditional political parties of Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Democratic Party (DP), Conservative Party (CP) and the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM) that were saved under the 1995 constitution, RA currently does not have a legal basis for taking on the Movement.
He said, “Let us register and see what follows. We want to test the Government. We are going to explain to our fellow multipartyists why we have taken this decision,†Njuba said.
Most delegates said it was perilous for the RA not to register because the traditional parties were recognised by the Constitution.
Peter Walubiri (UPC), Rukiga MP Jack Sabiiti (PAFO), Rubaga South MP Ken Lukyamuzi (CP), lawyer Joseph Balikuddembe (DP), Chapaa Karuhanga (the National Democrats Forum) and Haji Hussein Kyanjo (Justice Forum) among others, attended the conference.
Balikuddembe and East African Legislative Assembly member Yona Kanyomozi presented papers. Kanyomozi said Movement leaders were now fighting like wounded buffaloes.
THE Reform Agenda (RA), a pressure group of Col. Kizza Besigye, has resolved to register as a political party. According to members, this would rob the Government and security organs of an excuse to break up its rallies and arrest RA supporters.
The law requires political organisations to register.
RA delegates attending a national district coordinators’ consultative meeting at Christ the King Hall in Kampala over the weekend, mandated the RA steering committee to register immediately.
“The RA reiterates its unwavering confidence in the ideals, vision and mission of RA under the visionary leadership of Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye. The national steering committee in Kampala should take immediate steps to register as a political party as we continue to challenge any remaining obnoxious laws,†the delegates resolved.
The resolutions were read out at the end of their meeting by RA general secretary Geoffrey Ekanya.
The meeting also supported the coalition of all political organisations opposed to the incumbent.
“RA fully embraces the idea of forging a coalition with similar visionary political organisations with the aim of thoroughly routing the entire Museveni administration at the end of his constitutional last term in 2006,†the statement added.
Deputy RA chairman Sam Njuba said unlike the traditional political parties of Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Democratic Party (DP), Conservative Party (CP) and the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM) that were saved under the 1995 constitution, RA currently does not have a legal basis for taking on the Movement.
He said, “Let us register and see what follows. We want to test the Government. We are going to explain to our fellow multipartyists why we have taken this decision,†Njuba said.
Most delegates said it was perilous for the RA not to register because the traditional parties were recognised by the Constitution.
Peter Walubiri (UPC), Rukiga MP Jack Sabiiti (PAFO), Rubaga South MP Ken Lukyamuzi (CP), lawyer Joseph Balikuddembe (DP), Chapaa Karuhanga (the National Democrats Forum) and Haji Hussein Kyanjo (Justice Forum) among others, attended the conference.
Balikuddembe and East African Legislative Assembly member Yona Kanyomozi presented papers. Kanyomozi said Movement leaders were now fighting like wounded buffaloes.