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That pretty much sums it all up. Yoweri Museveni's Movemtisim is not interest in any muti party politics...! For them it is still the politics of " kifua and gun violence". Now this fellow has mounted a clandestine operation against political parties( with I am sure Yoweri Museven's Approval / or wink althought Mucebeni denies it).
Matek Mutale mobilises RDCs against parties |
| By Ignatius Ssuuna & Robert Mukombozi |
| KAMPALA - Maj. Roland Kakooza Mutale is pushing resident district commissioners (RDCs) and their deputies to oppose a change to multiparty politics. The presidential adviser on political affairs is mobilising the RDCs through a new organisation dubbed "Uphold the Movement". He wants the RDCs to convince the people to vote to retain the Movement system in the forthcoming referendum. Mutale, who is the head of the paramilitary group, Kalangala Action Plan (Kap), has set up mobilisation offices in different divisions of the Kampala City and parts of the country. Nakawa Deputy RDC Mr Mpimbaza Hashaka confirmed at the weekend that Mutale tried to enlist his support for the campaign. "It is true Mutale is opening up offices to fight multipartyism," he said. "He also approached me when opening up one [office] in my area recently but I did not comply because I feel this is different from what we disc ussed with our boss (President Yoweri Museveni) at Kyankwanzi," Hashaka said. A source in State House said at the weekend President Yoweri Museveni is opposed to Mutale's campaign. "The president is very disturbed by Mutale's actions," the source said. "The government position is that we should return to pluralism." The source, that requested not to be identified, said yesterday that Movement leaders were concerned about Mutale's determined efforts to campaign against a return to multiparty politics. Dr Stanley Kinyatta, the RDC for Kampala, said they would not support Mutale's campaign. "We are answerable to the president and nobody can take us for his will. It would also be indiscipline of us to join the group opposed to our NEC resolution of going multiparty," he told The Monitor by telephone yesterday. RDCs are the president's representatives in the districts. The Movement's National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Kyankwanzi in 2002 supported opening up of the political space for political parties to freely operate. Sources said the government is worried that if Kap is not checked it can swing the referendum result and frustrate a move to multiparty politics. The six major opposition parties last week said they would boycott the referendum because the return to multiparty is not guaranteed. But the Presidential Assistant on Political Affairs, Mr Moses Byaruhanga, said Mutale was free to have a different view like other Ugandans. "Mutale is like other Ugandans who still cherish the Movement because of its success," he said on the Capital FM radio talk show, The Capital Gang, on Saturday. "But the government has to convince them to accept the return to pluralism." The Deputy National Political Commissar, Mr Kirunda Kivejinja, said the Movement Secretariat has no powers to stop Mutale's mobilisation effort. "But as the secretariat, our task is to go to the grassroots and te ll our people about the political changes in the Movement," Kivejinja said. |
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