Dr Dambisya you have written
> My fellow compatriots, if "Federation is the answer for Uganda", what is > the question? > > I find it odd that almost everybody is talking about the "answer" to a > question that is not patently clear to everyone. Can we have the right > question(s) asked before we evaluate the answer? Or do we > want to have > the question put based on the answer(s) we have? I think the question is obvious to everyone interested in Uganda's affairs. It is "How can Uganda's peoples share power in a way which makes civil government possible?". The question was discussed at length in the constitutional conference that preceded independence. The solution they decided on was rejected by the Prime Minister in 1966 and he gave us his own solution, which we were assured permanently took care of the question by making us all equal under the leadership of himself and his party, with opposition abolished. The question has been similarly answered by every regime we have had since 1966, they assured us that "with us having complete and permanent control, and with confusing agents silenced, the matter is resolved". The NRMs 1995 constitution reiterates this same answer, but even they soon realised that it's not really a solution, so they convened a Constitutional Review commission. Setting up a commission to review a five-year old constitution was an explicit admission of failure by the NRM. What is your answer to the question, Dr Dambisya. Kigongo
