| Step down, Kenyan tells Museveni - New Vision 15/5/2004 |
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NO THIRD TERM:Prof. Makau Mutua, Chairman, Kenya Human Rights Commission. |
By Milton Olupot
THE chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Kenya, Prof. Makau Mutua (right), has said he expects President Yoweri Museveni to step down after his constitutional term to pave way for total transition from the movement to multiparty politics.
�I hate to see what will happen to this country when a political gap develops. I hope this will be President Museveni�s last term and he will not seek another one so that political parties are set free and full democracy restored,� he said.
Makau said this yesterday at the East African regional workshop on the role of political parties in a transition organised by Kituo Cha Katiba and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel.
He said 18 years was a long time and change was required to avoid instability and retarding the country�s development.
Makau said political parties in East Africa were based on ethnicity and lacked transparency.
�Political Parties are empty recep
tacles
in East Africa, there is a lot of intellectualism in the political parties. I urge parties that are not in power to form strong linkages and alliances with civil societies,� he said.
Prof. Fredrick Jjuuko of the G7 said the political parties in Uganda were still in a state of animated suspension despite the claims of the Movement government that parties were being fred.
He said parties were not free to keep in touch with their members leading to a generation breakdown.
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Published on: Saturday, 15th May, 2004 |
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