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Kategaya Insulting Me, Says Museveni
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The Monitor (Kampala)
December 28, 2003
Posted to the web December 29, 2003
Badru D. Mulumba
Kampala
President Yoweri Museveni yesterday made it clear that he hopes the new Movement will take action against Eriya Kategaya for publicly opposing its decisions.
Mr Museveni's statement comes on the heels of statements by former deputy prime minister and minister of Internal affairs, Mr Eriya Kategaya on Monitor FM last week, that he would oppose what he said were Museveni's machinations to change the constitution to allow him to potentially rule for life.
In the interview, Kategaya also alleged that he has circumstantial evidence that Museveni was personally behind the third term campaign.
But yesterday, in a 2,341-words statement, Museveni said: "This is an insult to me from Mr Kategaya. Since when have I ever feared to state in public what I felt? I did not initiate the agitation for what has been, inappropriately, called Third Term".
Museveni added that Kategaya would be opposing the Movement, if he opposes lifting presidential term limits.
"This is "sad"! Nevertheless, the Movement, I am sure, will, at the appropriate moment, deal with this error on Mr Kategaya's part and that of others that have been following the same path," he said.
"Some people that were elected on the Movement ticket in the previous elections have made it a habit to oppose Movement positions in Parliament or public fora. They have been using the laxity of the present Constitutional arrangement. I am sure with the registration of the Movement Organisation, that indiscipline will end."
The Movement National Executive Committee sitting on March 26th -28th, Museveni notes, arrived at the debate on presidential term limits, and the Movement National Conference, sitting on March 30-31 proposed lifting the term limits for the president.
"What I want to bring out here, is to reject the repeated statements by Mr Kategaya that the active agitation for amending Article 105 (2) of the Constitution was initiated by Museveni," he says.
"I would also like to question the motives of those who have been saying that it is taboo to discuss this issue while all other articles of the Constitution can be reviewed and, even, go to the extent of opposing, in public, a previous Movement Organ's decisions. This is not acceptable!"
Museveni also rejects the idea that 'a one man vision is not a vision'.
He cites Jesus Christ, Buddha, Karl Max, Adam Smith, Mohamed and Mao Tse Tung whose single vision has crystalised into a mass vision.
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The Monitor (Kampala)
December 28, 2003
Posted to the web December 29, 2003
Badru D. Mulumba
Kampala
President Yoweri Museveni yesterday made it clear that he hopes the new Movement will take action against Eriya Kategaya for publicly opposing its decisions.
Mr Museveni's statement comes on the heels of statements by former deputy prime minister and minister of Internal affairs, Mr Eriya Kategaya on Monitor FM last week, that he would oppose what he said were Museveni's machinations to change the constitution to allow him to potentially rule for life.
In the interview, Kategaya also alleged that he has circumstantial evidence that Museveni was personally behind the third term campaign.
But yesterday, in a 2,341-words statement, Museveni said: "This is an insult to me from Mr Kategaya. Since when have I ever feared to state in public what I felt? I did not initiate the agitation for what has been, inappropriately, called Third Term".
Museveni added that Kategaya would be opposing the Movement, if he opposes lifting presidential term limits.
"This is "sad"! Nevertheless, the Movement, I am sure, will, at the appropriate moment, deal with this error on Mr Kategaya's part and that of others that have been following the same path," he said.
"Some people that were elected on the Movement ticket in the previous elections have made it a habit to oppose Movement positions in Parliament or public fora. They have been using the laxity of the present Constitutional arrangement. I am sure with the registration of the Movement Organisation, that indiscipline will end."
The Movement National Executive Committee sitting on March 26th -28th, Museveni notes, arrived at the debate on presidential term limits, and the Movement National Conference, sitting on March 30-31 proposed lifting the term limits for the president.
"What I want to bring out here, is to reject the repeated statements by Mr Kategaya that the active agitation for amending Article 105 (2) of the Constitution was initiated by Museveni," he says.
"I would also like to question the motives of those who have been saying that it is taboo to discuss this issue while all other articles of the Constitution can be reviewed and, even, go to the extent of opposing, in public, a previous Movement Organ's decisions. This is not acceptable!"
Museveni also rejects the idea that 'a one man vision is not a vision'.
He cites Jesus Christ, Buddha, Karl Max, Adam Smith, Mohamed and Mao Tse Tung whose single vision has crystalised into a mass vision.
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