By Richard M. Kavuma
April 21, 2004 - Monitor
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KAMPALA � Vice President Gilbert Bukenya does not know if President Museveni wants a third term � but he intends to find out. �I have not asked him but as we go on I may ask him,� Mr Bukenya said on Andrew Mwenda Live talk show on Monitor FM last night. Mr Museveni, who has ruled for 18 years, is set to retire in 2006 at the end of his second and last constitutional term in office. While Museveni has not declared whether he will run again, he has attacked anyone who openly opposes the third term. Yesterday, Bukenya said Uganda must choose between the presidential (American) and the parliamentary (British) system as it prepares to go multiparty. �Me as Bukenya, I would rather we go the British way.� Under that system, where the leader of the party with majority seats in Parliament forms the government, the case for term limits becomes very weak. Bukenya spoke highly of his poverty eradication campaign, saying Uganda can save $90 million annually through domestic rice production, and even start exporting. The vice president, appointed last May, said he is chairing a Cabinet sub-committee on improving life in northern Uganda, where 18 years of rebellion have condemned people to squalid camps. As the two-hour show ended, Bukenya said there is need for Museveni and former deputy Premier Eriya Kategaya to talk. �They have had two meetings in the past but I don�t think they reached an agreement,� Bukenya said of the two men. |
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