Movement Here To Stay, Says Kigongo
Aug 26, 2003
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) vice-chairman, Al-Haji Moses Kigongo, yesterday said the Movement opened up political space in order to allow the people who want to destroy the Movement to get out.
By Milton Olupot
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) vice-chairman, Al-Haji Moses Kigongo, yesterday said the Movement opened up political space in order to allow the people who want to destroy the Movement to get out.
Kigongo said this at a meeting with Armando Guebuza, the Secretary General of the Mozambican ruling party, FRELIMO, at his office in Kampala.
He said the Movement was the ideal system for Uganda and was here to stay.
He said the bottom line is that there should be peace and unity and the voice of the people should be listened to.
He said this was the secret behind the success of the NRM.
Guebuza is in Uganda on a three-day official exchange visit. He is accompanied by Ms. Amelia Matos Sumbana and Eliseu Machava, FRELIMO secretaries for international relations and organisation, respectively and the first secretaries Sebastiao Dengo and Raimundo.
Kigongo likened the Movement to a home and its leadership to parents in the home.
Guebuza said his party has a long history with the NRM.
FRELIMO is a model system to the Movement and the two have striking similarities and relationship ranging from the time President Yoweri Museveni trained in guerrilla warfare with them.
Kigongo said the force the opposition exerted on the Movement was healthy because there will always be opposition however excellently one performed.
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THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) vice-chairman, Al-Haji Moses Kigongo, yesterday said the Movement opened up political space in order to allow the people who want to destroy the Movement to get out.
Kigongo said this at a meeting with Armando Guebuza, the Secretary General of the Mozambican ruling party, FRELIMO, at his office in Kampala.
He said the Movement was the ideal system for Uganda and was here to stay.
He said the bottom line is that there should be peace and unity and the voice of the people should be listened to.
He said this was the secret behind the success of the NRM.
Guebuza is in Uganda on a three-day official exchange visit. He is accompanied by Ms. Amelia Matos Sumbana and Eliseu Machava, FRELIMO secretaries for international relations and organisation, respectively and the first secretaries Sebastiao Dengo and Raimundo.
Kigongo likened the Movement to a home and its leadership to parents in the home.
Guebuza said his party has a long history with the NRM.
FRELIMO is a model system to the Movement and the two have striking similarities and relationship ranging from the time President Yoweri Museveni trained in guerrilla warfare with them.
Kigongo said the force the opposition exerted on the Movement was healthy because there will always be opposition however excellently one performed.
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