NRM MPs undergo military training
Jul 14, 2007
MPs of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) are undergoing military drills at the Kyankwanzi National Leadership Institute, Kiboga.
By Henry Mukasa
MPs of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) are undergoing military drills at the Kyankwanzi National Leadership Institute, Kiboga.
They include trotting several kilometres and physicals from 5:30am to 8:00am.
According to the programme for the NRM parliamentary caucus retreat which commenced on Thursday and closes next Wednesday, each day’s session will be preceded by a morning run, physicals and military drills, which include shooting.
Since the NRM came to power, a section of the population, including students, civil servants and local government leaders, have gone to Kyankwanzi for basic political and military training dubbed chakamchaka.
President Yoweri Museveni said this was for the “demystification of the gun†which was a tool of terror in past governments.
The President, in his capacity as the chairman of NRM, was expected to deliver a keynote address on “Strategic Bottlenecks of Africa’s Development†on Friday.
After dinner, Prof. Sam Turyamuhika was to make a presentation on regional integration. On Saturday morning, the vice-president will make a presentation on the “Prosperity for All vision.†Prosperity-for-all (bonna bagaggawale) was Museveni’s third-term re-election catch phrase.
However, the topic likely to spark a heated debate is “party building and discipline†to be presented by David Mafabi.
Two party MPs, Henry Banyenzaki and Dr. Sam Lyomoki, voted against the party line in parliament and condemned some actions by the Government.
And in a new twist, a group of party MPs led by Banyenzaki skipped the opening of the retreat in protest of the arrest of their colleague Barnabas Tinkasimire, on what they termed as trumped-up charges.
Banyenzaki, Lyomoki, Dr Cris Baryomunsi, Wilfred Nuwagaba, Theodore Sekikubo and Milton Muwuma travelled to Tororo where Tinkasimire was on Thursday charged with embezzling sh2.5m and failure to account for sh6.5m meant for a workshop when he was an assistant CAO.
MPs of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) are undergoing military drills at the Kyankwanzi National Leadership Institute, Kiboga.
They include trotting several kilometres and physicals from 5:30am to 8:00am.
According to the programme for the NRM parliamentary caucus retreat which commenced on Thursday and closes next Wednesday, each day’s session will be preceded by a morning run, physicals and military drills, which include shooting.
Since the NRM came to power, a section of the population, including students, civil servants and local government leaders, have gone to Kyankwanzi for basic political and military training dubbed chakamchaka.
President Yoweri Museveni said this was for the “demystification of the gun†which was a tool of terror in past governments.
The President, in his capacity as the chairman of NRM, was expected to deliver a keynote address on “Strategic Bottlenecks of Africa’s Development†on Friday.
After dinner, Prof. Sam Turyamuhika was to make a presentation on regional integration. On Saturday morning, the vice-president will make a presentation on the “Prosperity for All vision.†Prosperity-for-all (bonna bagaggawale) was Museveni’s third-term re-election catch phrase.
However, the topic likely to spark a heated debate is “party building and discipline†to be presented by David Mafabi.
Two party MPs, Henry Banyenzaki and Dr. Sam Lyomoki, voted against the party line in parliament and condemned some actions by the Government.
And in a new twist, a group of party MPs led by Banyenzaki skipped the opening of the retreat in protest of the arrest of their colleague Barnabas Tinkasimire, on what they termed as trumped-up charges.
Banyenzaki, Lyomoki, Dr Cris Baryomunsi, Wilfred Nuwagaba, Theodore Sekikubo and Milton Muwuma travelled to Tororo where Tinkasimire was on Thursday charged with embezzling sh2.5m and failure to account for sh6.5m meant for a workshop when he was an assistant CAO.