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LETTER BY F.N. LUGEMWA TO THE NEW VISION 28TH APRIL 2004
Power For A Friend Can Be Lost After Friendship Dies!
SIR� Federo is a constitutional national issue. President Museveni has said he is willing to discuss with the Buganda Kingdom officials at Mengo, how much power they should hold, (The New Vision, April 21).
�I am ready to discuss with my Mengo friends to determine how much authority they want to hold. I have no problem with discussion, but power must be shared rationally,� President Museveni said.
If the President is genuine about sharing power with the regions, he should use the visit to Mengo to launch a campaign for constitutional federalism which would grant proper power-sharing between the regions and the central government.
The President�s visit to Mengo will be a good first step in the right direction, but the President needs to use Mengo to kick off a nationwide campaign for sharing power in a rational way � through an all-inclusive constitutional federal system of government before he leaves office in 2006.
Uganda�s history teaches
us that
federo for a chosen few, also known as �federo for those who want it,� would be a disaster for Uganda.
The President has the opportunity to deliver us from the evil that the unitary system of government created in Uganda.
But that needs to be done through constitutional federalism and not through the never-ending, unproductive chats with his friends at Mengo.
Power given to a friend could easily be taken away once the friendship dies.
F. N. Lugemwa
Kampala
Published on: Wednesday, 28th April, 2004 |
