CCG LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN for the youths/students to contribute towards defining the national development agenda in the political, economic and social activities providing alternative remedies potraying how far Uganda has come and where it should be in the next 50 years.
One of the key consulattive areas is the debate on presidentail term limits. This debate has been ongoing for the last six months and has been informed by several processes including the Citizens Manifesto under the Uganda Governance Monitoring Platform. However, the voice of the youth has been lacking in all this.
Therefore, this campaign seeks to give an opportunity to the youths through dialogues, radio and televised debate, to voice out their views on the Restoration of Presidential Trem Limits; Vision 2040 and Uganda they would like to live in in the next 50 years (Vision 2062).
It is important to note that citizens action or inaction has important consequncies for democracy and good governance. Its also important to recognise that critically minded and informed individuals are the buiding blocks for an open, globally comptetitive society.
This campaign will, therefore, give an opportunity to the youths to play a central role in transforming the political discourse, organising and engage,emt in Uganda.
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The post-1986 "democratic reforms" were intended to bring about fair and workable rules for managing political competition and for transfering political power to prevent Uganda from returning to violent transfers of political power of the past. However, it appears that the rules have been manupulated with a view of entrenching the incumbert government. We must revist these rules, and ask ourselves if they provide safeguards against abuse of authority. We must ask ourselves why it was so easy to ammend the constitution to allow for the abolishment of the presidenatial term limits. We must also ask why we have failed to develop systems for constraining executive authority. Our human rights record and history of executive recruitement reads as follows; since indepedence, six out of the last seven heads of state have come to power by overthrowing the previous regime and in the same period an estimated 2 million Ugandans have died in violent struggle for political power and at the hands of the state. Another 2 million have been exiled or have choosen to live oustide Uganda. The current regime has tightened its grip on power by manupilating the rules that they were intended to restore the socialfabric of a society plagued by a violent past
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