UGANDA: A CASE OF THE BLIND LEADING FELLOW BLIND MEN & WOMEN ===================================== The law is very clear. Serving Army officers are barred from getting involved in active politics. This is clearly stated in Section 99 of the UPDF Act. The constitution too reinforces this. The government in Kampala is not a coalition. A cabinet minister is a political appointee who broadly agrees with the policies of his or her party in a specific field of government. It is their job to carry out the functions, tasks and policies decided upon by the party. The president appoints his cabinet ministers and it is up to Parliament to approve or reject them. If the president appoints his clansmen or serving UPDF officers and then Parliament approves them, then who do you blame? When a President appoints someone as Minister, it is up to that person to accept or decline the position. To accept that appointment, it means you accept to work for the NRM government (for example in Kampala) to carry out the functions, tasks and policies decided upon by the party. In short, you accept to be partisan in whatever you set out to do thereafter. The Rt Hon Jacob Oulanyah (Deputy Dpeaker) is therefore being very short sighted and also economical with the truth when he says: “... in law we have to first see Gen Aronda being partisan or committing a crime”. I would like to point it out that any multiparty political dispensation is partisan in nature. Different political parties present different party manifestos to the electorate and these manifestos sets out differing government policies and programs. Uganda is a country led by the myopic and dimwits. The president is politically blind; Parliament is impotent and incompetent. By Sunday Geoffrey President The National Party
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:34:15 +0000
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