DR. MATEMBE'S TAKE ON UGANDA'S MULTI PARTY SYSTEM ON KFM'S HARD TALK

HON DR MIRIA MATEMBE'S TAKE ABOUT THE NATURE OF UGANDA'S MULTI - PARTY SYSTEM

KFM HARD TALK

31ST MARCH 2012

While appearing on KFM's Hard Talk Programme, Dr. Matembe stated that where as Uganda's Constitution states that there are two systems of governance in Uganda: the movement system and the multi-party system and when one system is operational, the other should be in abbeyance; M7 in 2006 stole all the structures of the Movement System and turned then into NRM (O) Party. She then went ahead and chellenged Ugandans on whether we have a functional multi party system in Uganda!

To this extent, she thinks that we are fooling ourselves by thinking that we are in a multi party democracy when one party which was under the movement system is still in charge in a similar way. This is confirmed by celebrations like the NRM 26 YEARS IN POWER. When did NRM Party, that was elected in 2006 make 26 years in power??????????? Uganda has just made "6 years" of multi - party governance and if we had genuine leaders, they would now be celebrating 6 years of NRM O and not 26 years of NRM.

Its important to deliberate on governance in Uganda as a whole including the question of restoring term limits, the question of celebrating NRM "26" YEARS in power, the question of seperation of powers and the recent attacks about the Rt Hon Speaker of Parliament, etc as we prepare to celebrate Uganda's 50 years of Independence.

Jubillee - 50 years in the Bible in the book of Leviticus; is a year of over coming, a year of celebration, a year of victory and this must be a year of governance victory for Uganda.

THE FIFTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE SHOULD MARK THE END OF USING VIOLENCE AS A MEANS FOR REGIME CHANGE IN UGANDA AND CLEARLY HAVE PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS RESTORED INTO UGANDA'S CONSTITUTION.

FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY.