[Ugnet] Mugisha quits FDC executive

[Matek Opoko]

Mugisha quits FDC executive

HUSSEIN BOGERE

KAMPALA The coordinator of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) in the United States, Ms Anne Mugisha , has resigned in a move that caught the party leadership here by surprise. In a June 24 e-mail to the FDC chairperson, Col. Dr Kizza Besigye, Mugisha said, “I regret that I am unable to continue with the task assigned to me.” She added: “I have serious financial constraints that restrict my ability to represent FDC effectively.” Ms Anne Mugisha Mugisha explained that she was had resigned because the position required a level of financial commitment that she could not sustain. However, she emphasised that she would continue to support the office of the External Coordinator for USA within her “limited financial means but with unlimited energy as a democracy activist and a fully-paid up member of FDC.” “I am available to serve in a position of leadership in FDC which will not require me to make huge personal financial commitments at the expense of urgent family obligations,” Mugisha added. Mugisha is a single parent, raising three children in the United States where she has been living in exile since 2002. She works as Programme Associate with Women’s Learning Partnership, a Washington-based organisation which promotes women’s empowerment in developing countries. She dismissed speculation that she had been fired or had resigned because of disagreements with other FDC leaders.

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