Muntu killing FDC, says Nandala Nadala Mafabi (L), FDC president Mugisha Muntu (R) Former Leader of Opposition in parliament and Budadili West MP Nadala Mafabi (L), FDC president Mugisha Muntu (R) is said to be doing underground work to build party structures. By ALBERT TUMWINE Nandala Mafabi says there’s no evidence of Muntu doing underground work. Kanpala Former Leader of the opposition in Parliament (LoP), Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi, has accused Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Mugisha Muntu of steering the party in a wrong direction ahead of the 2016 general elections. Mr Mafabi said instead of propping up the main opposition political party, Maj Gen (Rtd) Muntu is destroying the structures built under the leadership of former party president, Kizza Besigye. Mr Mafabi told Daily Monitor FDC under the current leadership of Gen Muntu is in a “sloppy state” and incapable of taking advantage of the situation which he says is ripe for change. “The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is at its weakest state but Gen Muntu has led FDC into the worst environment. The party is going down every day yet the time is ripe to remove NRM which is experiencing internal power struggles. We have a very big opportunity but if we start to backstab each other, it won’t take us anywhere,” Mr Mafabi said. His grievance The former LoP added: “The FDC leadership under Gen Muntu told some of us to keep quiet. They say I am not a good speaker, and I have kept quiet, but the people can now see where the party is. “Even the semblance of structures you see like the National Council (NC) were built during Kizza’s (Besigye) time but they are also being mismanaged. “I heard that Gen Muntu is building structures underground, maybe he is working for underground people, but for us, we are on top of the ground and we can’t see anything. Can he show one example of a structure he has built?” Mr Mafabi asked. The legislator, who attended and later abandoned the party NC in Luweero recently after disagreements over proposals to give the presidency powers to fire committee members at will, said: “The FDC constitution is a public document which should be discussed openly, but they are keeping the amendments away from the people. I wonder what their intention is,” Mr Nandala said. “They want the presidency to have excessive powers of firing National Executive Committee members without consulting, but this is wrong. It should be the delegates to do this and the people must know what is happening. Such powers (to fire NEC members) should be vested in the disciplinary committee and the president should only recommend someone to be scrutinised by the committee,” Efforts to get a comment from Gen Muntu were futile as his known telephone number was switched off. However, Ms Alice Alaso, the FDC secretary general, said the party is on the right course and that the party roadmap has been adopted by the decision making bodies of the party. Ms Alaso, who is the Soroti MP, said it is unfair for Mr Mafabi to say he has been asked to keep quiet. “Unless he chooses to keep quiet but I am not aware of anyone who has stopped him from expressing himself; how come he did not oppose the amendments in Luweero. He actually speaks most in party meetings when he wants,” Ms Alaso said.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:37:36 +0000
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