Beti Kamya faces explusion from FDC

Apr 11, 2010

MPs Alex Onzima and Beti Kamya face expulsion this week from their party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), if found guilty of desertion and hostility to the party.The former stalwarts have fallen out with the party they helped found and have been engaged in counter accusations with the party leade

By Milton Olupot

MPs Alex Onzima and Beti Kamya face expulsion this week from their party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), if found guilty of desertion and hostility to the party.The former stalwarts have fallen out with the party they helped found and have been engaged in counter accusations with the party leaders.

Maracha MP Onzima and Rubaga North MP Kamya have been summoned to appear before the disciplinary committee sitting at the party headquarters, on tomorrow at 10:00am.

In a letter, the party secretary general, Alice Alaso, warned that if they failed to appear, judgment would be passed without their defence.

“You are required to defend yourself in regard to desertion and hostility to the party,” her letter to the MPs read.

“You may recall that you have not previously honoured the disciplinary committee summons and, therefore, should you fail to appear this time, the committee will proceed to consider this matter without your input.”

The FDC leadership accuses Onzima of collaborating with the ruling NRM. The disciplinary organs have recommended action against him for campaigning for President Yoweri Museveni.

The Constitution provides that MPs who cross from one political party to another automatically lose their seat and the Electoral Commission has to organise fresh elections in their constituencies.

FDC says it has evidence that Onzima campaigned for Museveni in West Nile at the same time when Besigye was in the region.

On Kamya, reports from the FDC headquarters indicate that a decision had been reached to expel her but that she was trying to get a pardon.

Kamya, who is serving a suspension for indiscipline, is said to have sent a message to the party leadership to mend fences. Her suspension followed a statement that FDC leaders were worse than NRM leaders.

She accused her bosses of manipulating the party constitution to lock out the Baganda from top positions.

“FDC is a political party which I subscribed to with all my heart and all my energy. But the leadership conspired to deny me space to exercise my democratic right to become chairman of the party. So why should I condemn Museveni and not Besigye?” she told Sunday Vision recently.

She accused her party leader of being intolerant to dissenting views and of appearing as a man of vengeance by only calling for the removal of Museveni.

“I was able to discover that Besigye is worse than Museveni and that FDC does not have a political ideology to inform its political decisions. I was able to know that FDC has no solid strategy that can lead Uganda to the Promised Land,” she said.

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