DP vows to defy Police ban on rallies

Dec 19, 2006

THE Democratic Party has vowed to break a recent Police directive banning political rallies at the Constitutional Square.

By Conan Businge

THE Democratic Party has vowed to break a recent Police directive banning political rallies at the Constitutional Square.

The party’s national legal advisor, Elias Lukwago, made the vow at their weekly briefing on Tuesday.

He said they were to hold a rally at the square on January 6 next year.

Lukwago said: ‘I heard that demonstrations and assemblies were abolished from the city centre. But that is not a Government position. It is Kale Kayihura’s idea.” Kale Kayihura is the Inspector General of Police.

“Kayihura will not instruct us on what to do. All the liberty the country is enjoying is because of DP,” Lukwago asserted.
At the same briefing, party president John Ssebana Kizito regretted their participation in the inter-party committee.

The committee is a forum that brings together major political parties to discuss various national issues.

Ssebaana said the Government had failed to follow up on the resolutions made in the last meeting in July.

“We expected to use the meeting to resolve a number of issues affecting our people. We intended to review the operation of the multiparty system. A committee was set up to study our presentations, howeve r, nothing has ever come out,” he lamented.

Ssebaana appealed to Government to implement the recommendations they made in the meeting.

The committee was put in place after the Government met the Democratic Party, Uganda People’s Congress and Abed Bwanika, a former presidential aspirant.
The meeting held in State House, saw minister Amama Mbabazi chosen to head the committee.

Its work involved studying the proposals of the parties and individuals. It was to make recommendations for the parties thereafter.

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