#HAPPYNEWYEAR: 1st, January2015 #UGANDA: FORMER Rubaga North MP Beti Kamya has revealed her willingness to reclaim her parliamentary seat in 2016. The seat is currently occupied by Moses Kasibante. The former 2011 general election presidential candidate, whose catch phrase is Change the Constitution and trim the powers of the President”, said on Tuesday that returning to Parliament in 2016 would give her leverage to ground her federo project better. “Returning to Parliament is something I am deeply thinking of,” she said, revealing that her return to parliament would create room for her to positively influence legislation. By revealing that she intends to return to the intricate parliamentary corridors of power, Kamya has qualified one of the predictions this author made in the New Vision magazine, Uganda in 2015. An ardent advocate for federalism, in 2011, she tested the presidential campaign political waters, emerging 5th (with 52,782 votes) out of the eight contestants in the race. She stood on the party ticket of Uganda Federal Alliance, which she founded in 2010 as the president. Before breaking ranks with the party FDC in 2009, Kamya served as special envoy in Dr. Kizza Besigye’s office and was a strong activist during the Reform Agenda days. Kamya fell out with FDC after a bitter row over the succession of the party chairman, Sulaiman Kiggundu, when he passed on. Kamya sought to replace Kiggundu, but the party argued that its constitution had to be followed.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:32:41 +0000
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