The damage is already done ...Mr.Komelit or is it Ekomolit , you efforts to pback peddle Museveni's utterences , most definately will not do the NRM and Mucebeni any good.
Listen fellow Citizens , Yosweri Kagura Mucebeni stated clearly in no uncertain terms that he is going to ram through his wish to have the Referendum... no matter what the Ugandan Member of Paliament thinks or wishes . This then is the hall mark of a true dictator. I love when I see Mucebeni ( without knowing it) is pretty much engaged digging a saddam like hole for Himself.
Matek
Museveni Clarifies On Referendum Poll
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New Vision (Kampala)
May 3, 2005
Posted to the web May 3, 2005
Milton Olupot
Kampala
STATE House has clarified that President Yoweri Museveni did not say parliament had no right to decide on critical national issues, such as the return to multipartyism.
A statement by Museveni's press secretary, Onapito Ekomoloit, yesterday said the President only cautioned MPs not to disregard the people in deciding whether multiparty competition should resume.
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Onapito was responding to The New Vision story, "MPS cannot decide on critical national issues", in Sunday Vision of May 1, 2005, attributed to the President.
"As somebody who has championed democracy in Uganda, among whose tenets are the separation of powers, President Museveni is aware of the rights of MPs.
"He knows that MPs can amend the Constitution to authorise the resumption of multiparty competition. Therefore, the opening statement in your story that, "President Yoweri Museveni has said Parliament has no right to decide on critical national issues, like whether the country should go multi-party," could not have come from his mouth," Onapito said.
He said the President argued that the matter should be resolved through a referendum.
"Ugandans in a 2000 referendum decided that they did not want multi-party political competition. Anybody claiming to be democratic cannot reverse the people's decision without consulting them," he added.
He said the push to return to multipartyism was a decision by the leadership of the Movement, initiated in 2003 at Kyankwanzi, on the advice of President Museveni.
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"It would be very arrogant for the Movement leadership to turn this decision into law without seeking approval from the people.
"All MPs and district councillors are members of the Movement National Conference. How can MPs go against the decision of a meeting they participated in?" Onapito asked.
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