Letter to the Editor - Monitor - 20th March 2004
Federo is not a Buganda thing alone - FN Lugemwa
Federo sio kuunda taifa ndani ya taifa ingini. Federo in kuipa maana kuu saidi sirikali kuu, ina maana kungawa mamlaka katikati ya sirikali kuu na sirikali za mikoa ndani ya taifa. Ni kuuda binu za kuondao � udictator� wa mtu mmoja.
Ina maana makali ya kupambana na upizadi, kutokuhesimu haki za binadama, na utunizi mbaya wa offisi(wofiisi). Ina maana ya uhuru, maendeleo na utajiri, na mwishowe siku sijazo nzuri kwaq kila moja.
Chini ya Federo, Mikoa upeana sehemu ya mamalaka ya siahazi kwa sirikali kuu, uku wakitarajia sirikali itende wema kwa wote�.
Federo is not about creating a state within a state. Federo is about giving greater meaning and vitality to the central government, it is about sharing power between the central government and the regional governments in a modern state. It is about putting institutions in place that will do away with one-man dictatorships.
It is about vigorously dealing with corruption, human rights abuse, and abuse of office. It is about freedom, prosperity and wealth, and hence a better future for everyone.
Under a federo system, the regions surrender some of their political power to the central government, relying on it to act for the common good.
Federo is meant to give sovereignty and freedom back to the individual. Its major objective is to integrate the different constituent units by providing for their differences and diversity in the central organization and guaranteeing that they all have a say in the conduct of their affairs.
Some will argue that by all indications decentralisation seems to be working just fine; what is the need for federalism? Under decentralization in a unitary state, all powers are owned by the central government and can be repossessed at will by their owner - the central government in Kampala.
In the struggles that competition begets when the owners of power lose, they repossess some or all of those powers. In federal systems, some powers are owned by the centre and some by the provinces, states or cantons. Therefore, unilateral repossession of powers is not possible.
Given the competitive nature of intergovernmental relations, a central government in Kampala would find it difficult to resist the temptation to repossess a power it had hitherto decentralized if it found itself more or less continuously losing in the competitive struggle with more junior authorities [the districts in Uganda], a situation that cannot arise in federal states because in those states the division of powers is based on a constitutionally entrenched divided ownership of powers.
Federo for all might be Uganda's only remaining lifeline.
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