{UAH} Gen Sejusa scoffs at opposition reforms
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By Umaru Kashaka
KAMPALA - The former coordinator of intelligence services, Gen David Sejusa, has scoffed at the opposition political parties' and civil society organisations' efforts toward a free and fair election next year.
He was explaining to New Vision why he never joined the opposition political parties on Wednesday in presenting their views on the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to the legal affairs committee of parliament.
Among other changes, the opposition parties wanted electoral commissioners appointed not by a sitting president who might have a vested interest, but by the arguably more independent Judicial Service Commission, with the help of political parties represented in Parliament.
They also wanted the Army not only to lose its representation in Parliament but also, alongside the Police, intelligence services and paramilitary organisations, to cease having any role to play in the electoral process.
The group also called for the reinstatement of presidential term limits scrapped by Parliament in 2005.
However, Gen Sejusa, aka Tinyefuza, poured cold water on the proposed reforms.
"I'm busy where it matter. Right now I'm in Kamuli. What reforms? You can't reform a dictatorship. You dismantle it; that is what some of us are focusing on," he said.
Sejusa has of late been meeting political figures in opposition parties at their respective headquarters in Kampala, such as Democratic Party, JEEMA and Uganda People's Congress to chart way forward for 2016 save Forum for Democratic Change which wants him first discharged from the army.
However, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Wafula Oguttu, said the party's position does not stop members from interacting with Sejusa individually.
"There are members who are interacting with Sejusa on an individual level, but not at the level of the party because it's against FDC policy to have soldiers involved in active politics," Oguttu said.
Under Uganda's electoral laws, serving army soldiers are prohibited from engaging in partisan politics unless they have been discharged from the military.
However, Sejusa, who returned in December last year, after living in London for nearly one-and-a-half years, stated that he was just doing his duty as a patriotic Ugandan to save his country.
The General moved to Britain in April 2013 after writing a dossier claiming that there was a plot to kill some army officers who opposed an alleged project to front Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba for presidency.
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-- KAMPALA - The former coordinator of intelligence services, Gen David Sejusa, has scoffed at the opposition political parties' and civil society organisations' efforts toward a free and fair election next year.
He was explaining to New Vision why he never joined the opposition political parties on Wednesday in presenting their views on the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to the legal affairs committee of parliament.
Among other changes, the opposition parties wanted electoral commissioners appointed not by a sitting president who might have a vested interest, but by the arguably more independent Judicial Service Commission, with the help of political parties represented in Parliament.
They also wanted the Army not only to lose its representation in Parliament but also, alongside the Police, intelligence services and paramilitary organisations, to cease having any role to play in the electoral process.
The group also called for the reinstatement of presidential term limits scrapped by Parliament in 2005.
However, Gen Sejusa, aka Tinyefuza, poured cold water on the proposed reforms.
"I'm busy where it matter. Right now I'm in Kamuli. What reforms? You can't reform a dictatorship. You dismantle it; that is what some of us are focusing on," he said.
Sejusa has of late been meeting political figures in opposition parties at their respective headquarters in Kampala, such as Democratic Party, JEEMA and Uganda People's Congress to chart way forward for 2016 save Forum for Democratic Change which wants him first discharged from the army.
However, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Wafula Oguttu, said the party's position does not stop members from interacting with Sejusa individually.
"There are members who are interacting with Sejusa on an individual level, but not at the level of the party because it's against FDC policy to have soldiers involved in active politics," Oguttu said.
Under Uganda's electoral laws, serving army soldiers are prohibited from engaging in partisan politics unless they have been discharged from the military.
However, Sejusa, who returned in December last year, after living in London for nearly one-and-a-half years, stated that he was just doing his duty as a patriotic Ugandan to save his country.
The General moved to Britain in April 2013 after writing a dossier claiming that there was a plot to kill some army officers who opposed an alleged project to front Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba for presidency.
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
---Theodore Roosevelt
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