Ex-Buganda boss heads IPC drive
Oct 20, 2010
THE former Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro (premier), Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogere, is to head the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) campaigns in Buganda.
By Jeff Lule
THE former Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro (premier), Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogere, is to head the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) campaigns in Buganda.
IPC chairman Michael Mabikke said the coalition agreed with Ssuubi 2011, a Buganda-based pressure group, that Ssemwogere also represents the group on the IPC summit.
Ssemwogere will also head the selection of the IPC flag-bearers in Buganda.
IPC is an umbrella group, which brings together four opposition parties – Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Conservative Party (CP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Justice Forum (JEEMA).
IPC is seeking to field joint candidates in the 2011 polls. But the group suffered a setback when Uganda People’s Congress withdrew its membership. The Democratic Party, the country’s oldest party, also refused to join IPC, arguing that it was an outfit for FDC.
IPC announced yesterday that it will constitute a committee comprising two representatives from each party in the IPC and one representative from Suubi.
“We are going to constitute an IPC Buganda steering committee, a secretariat and will immediately embark on establishing campaign committees from districts to villages in the region,†Mabikke said.
This was at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between IPC and Suubi at Pope Paul Memorial Centre in Ndeeba in Kampala.
The agreement was signed by four political party leaders subscribing to IPC, including Dr. Kizza Besigye (FDC), Husein Kyanjo (JEEMA), Michael Mabikke (SDP), Ssebina Ssekitoleko (CP) and Ssemwogerere on behalf of Ssuubi.
A significant number of leaders of Suubi are members of DP opposed to the leadership of Norbert Mao.
DP has threatened to expel the members involved in the pressure group if they campaign for Besigye in the forthcoming elections.
According to the memorandum of understanding, IPC will seek to implement a viable system of governance across the country, return all Buganda’s expropriated properties and pay all debts owed by the central government to Buganda Kingdom and scrap all policies introduced by NRM which the kingdom opposes.
IPC presidential flag-bearer Besigye said the formation of IPC Buganda is aimed at bringing on board people who do not belong to any political party.
He said the same exercise is already taking place in other parts of the country.
THE former Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro (premier), Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogere, is to head the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) campaigns in Buganda.
IPC chairman Michael Mabikke said the coalition agreed with Ssuubi 2011, a Buganda-based pressure group, that Ssemwogere also represents the group on the IPC summit.
Ssemwogere will also head the selection of the IPC flag-bearers in Buganda.
IPC is an umbrella group, which brings together four opposition parties – Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Conservative Party (CP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Justice Forum (JEEMA).
IPC is seeking to field joint candidates in the 2011 polls. But the group suffered a setback when Uganda People’s Congress withdrew its membership. The Democratic Party, the country’s oldest party, also refused to join IPC, arguing that it was an outfit for FDC.
IPC announced yesterday that it will constitute a committee comprising two representatives from each party in the IPC and one representative from Suubi.
“We are going to constitute an IPC Buganda steering committee, a secretariat and will immediately embark on establishing campaign committees from districts to villages in the region,†Mabikke said.
This was at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between IPC and Suubi at Pope Paul Memorial Centre in Ndeeba in Kampala.
The agreement was signed by four political party leaders subscribing to IPC, including Dr. Kizza Besigye (FDC), Husein Kyanjo (JEEMA), Michael Mabikke (SDP), Ssebina Ssekitoleko (CP) and Ssemwogerere on behalf of Ssuubi.
A significant number of leaders of Suubi are members of DP opposed to the leadership of Norbert Mao.
DP has threatened to expel the members involved in the pressure group if they campaign for Besigye in the forthcoming elections.
According to the memorandum of understanding, IPC will seek to implement a viable system of governance across the country, return all Buganda’s expropriated properties and pay all debts owed by the central government to Buganda Kingdom and scrap all policies introduced by NRM which the kingdom opposes.
IPC presidential flag-bearer Besigye said the formation of IPC Buganda is aimed at bringing on board people who do not belong to any political party.
He said the same exercise is already taking place in other parts of the country.