{UAH} FIVE YEARS AGO!!!

bert Mwanje

Posted  Monday, November 1  2010 at  00:00

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Uganda Federal Alliance president Beti Olive Namisango Kamya yesterday launched her campaign manifesto. The manifesto mainly promises provision of a federal system of governance, establishing public health insurance, promoting agriculture, environment and infrastructure rehabilitation.

Addressing party national mobilisers and district chairpersons in Kawempe, Ms Kamya said her government will increase agricultural funding from the current 4 per cent to 15 per cent, raise local governments funding from the current 23 per cent to 50 per cent in the first financial year and 60 per cent in the subsequent years.

"This will be the arrangement as we design an appropriate federal system that will eventually see at least 75 per cent of taxes remaining with the people where it belongs, with regional governments," Ms Kamya said.

"The unitary system of governance has not worked. Uganda desperately needs a new lease of life hence the growing cries of federalism around the country."

Championing federal
Under a federal system, power and authority are shared between the central government and regional governments in a manner agreed upon and defined in the Constitution.

According to UFA manifesto, the new government will lead Ugandans to overhaul the education system and the entire mental orientation to 'Ugandanise/ Africanise' pupils' brains. She pledged to improve the maternal and child health, ensure security and public order and demilitarise Ugandan politics.

"The military will also get out of parliament as part of the demilitarisation process," the party manifesto reads in part. UFA also guarantees a minimum wage for workers and promotes workers union to champion the rights of workers, construction, urban planning and infrastructure rehabilitation and settle nomadic communities.

She pledged zero tolerance to corruption, special attention to pensioners, veterans, women and people with disabilities, among others. Earlier, Ms Kamya while touring areas of Mengo Kisenyi in Kampala, promised to reduce MPs salary and allowances.

Addressing residents of Muzaana zone, Kisenyi Parish, the presidential hopeful said MPs were getting huge salaries despite their passive role in development of the country.

She said it was unfair that an MP was getting more than Shs12 million and other benefits when government employees like doctors and teachers are given peanuts.

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