By Kakaire A. Kirunda
Dec 29, 2003
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President Museveni is a tired man and should quit in 2006, Mr Godfrey Binaisa has said. "He is a big man. I mean he fought for the common man, now it is 17 years. But I think now he is exhausted, my advice to him is to step down in 2006," he said on BBC's African Perspectives programme at the weekend. Binaisa was President of Uganda for a short while following the ouster of Idi Amin in 1979. He thinks Museveni's continued stay in power explains the persistent wars raging on in the country. Said Binaisa: "Nobody knows what's going to happen in 2006." Museveni's last constitutional term expires in 2006. However, Cabinet is pushing for an amendment to the Constitution to have the term limit on the presidency removed. The move is widely seen by critics as a ploy aimed at keeping the incumbent President at the helm for as long as he wishes. While speaking on the same programme, Agago MP Ogenga Latigo said government is not responding adequately to the killings and the pathetic humanitarian situation in the north. "Government must come out with a very clear position on how it wants to end the war and how quickly," he said. Asked whether he preferred war to talking peace with the Joseph Kony-led rebels, he said: "I think a genuine attempt of talking to the rebels should help but we have also seen that attempts at talking have always yielded very poor results on the part of the rebels mainly because of how government projects its intention to talk. It is not encouraging at all. "It [government] sets conditions as if it is the victor rather than somebody who wants to end the conflict and this is where the big problem lies." |
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