Ugandans
The whistle is off where are the Ssemuwemba's to line up for the leadership of
this party? Some of us have itching fingers to fund raise for the candidates,
for that is the most important issue as we speak..
EM
Toronto
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From: Robert Ssenkindu
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Subject: {UAH} Re: MAAMA MIRIA OBOTE TO STEP DOWN NEXT YEAR
At about 72, but still looks like a 50 yr old? greeeaaat!!!!!
" I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery"----Jean Jaqueas
Rousseau
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generation" James Freeman Clarke
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Max Stirner "The Ego and His Own (1845)"
"The people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned how to pronouce
the word 'no' -Winston Churchill.
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Subject: {UAH} MAAMA MIRIA OBOTE TO STEP DOWN NEXT YEAR
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:50:21 -0500
Miria Obote steps down next year
Alfred Nyongesa Wandera
Namboole
Uganda Peoples Congress will hold its third delegates conference late next
year at which they will elect a new party president to replace Ms Miria Kalule
Obote who has been at the helm since 2005.
This was revealed yesterday by UPC deputy Secretary General, Mr Chris Opoka
during the party’s second delegates’ conference at Namboole National Stadium
which deliberated over the amendment of the party constitution.
“Mama Miria is happy that she has given the party her time to serve it and
can now leave. We shall hold a delegates conference next year to elect a person
to replace her so that the new person can have time to popularise him or
herself in preparation for the 2011 general elections,” Mr Opoka told Sunday
Monitor in an interview.
The conference attracted over 500 delegates with majority coming from
Northern Uganda. They rooted for reduction of the term of service of party
president from seven to five years so as to be in tandem with the national
Constitution.
“The 1969 party constitution was designed during turbulent times and gave
much power to the party president,” said Prof. Patrick Rubaihayo, a senior UPC
member.
“We hope to make a transparent, democratic and pro-people constitution to
reinstate the party’s glory,” Prof. Rubaihayo said.
Under the old party constitution, the president essentially enjoyed sweeping
powers to appoint and dismiss members of the Central Executive Committee. A
member was not allowed to hold a rally without the permission of the party
president.
Mr Opoka admitted that at the conference, there was a faction of delegates
who had come to ensure that the party president was ousted immediately.
“That clique of people fears to be challenged in next year’s delegates’
conference because they know there will be tight competition to replace Mama
Miria. But until then, Mama Miria shall remain our party president,” Mr Opoka
said.
Yesterday, Mama Miria acknowledged that her age would not allow her to
continue in the 2011 general elections even if the constitution was not
amended.
“It is true I am now about 72 and by July 2011, I will be 75. That means I
can contest for presidency because elections will be held in March that very
year. I will be remaining with just a few months to be barred by the national
constitution which does not allow a person at 75 and above to contest for
presidency,” Mama Miria said.
“But it is always good to let others serve. It is now time we should let new
blood lead us at the helm of the party. That is what democracy means,’ Mama
Miria added.
UPC is not the only political party whose top leadership has been hit by the
age factor. Democratic Party President John Ssebana Kizito has also declared he
will relinquish power to Gulu District Chairman Norbert Mao.
The issue of membership of UPC at the delegates’ conference generated some
debate. A delegate from Bunya West, Mr Mohamed Dhakaba Kirunda said whereas the
CEC wanted membership to be by formal registration, the others wanted the
membership to be left open to anyone who is willing to join the party.
“The delegates felt that by forcing members to register is tying them to the
party, which is not democratic,” Mr Kirunda said.
However, UPC special envoy to United Kingdom, Mr Joseph Ochieno said it is
always good to have members registered because it shows members’ commitment.
But he agreed registration should not always restrict membership.
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