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Mr. issac Kakwenza,

Besigye pledges to appoint NRM party ministers

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FDC presidential candidate Kizza Besigye addresses a rally in Lira District yesterday. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA 

By ERIASA MUKIIBI SSERUNJOGI

Posted  Wednesday, February 10  2016 at  02:00

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Justification. The FDC presidential candidate says it is important "to include others and manage a transition".

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LIRA. The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party will set up a government of national unity that could even include members of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) if it wins the February 18 presidential election, its candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, has said.

"Even if we win this election outright, we propose to have a government of national unity to include others because we believe that after the disastrous 30 years of NRM, there should be a transitional process that involves the participation of all political players," Dr Besigye said on the Lira-based Unity FM on Monday evening.

The government of national unity, he said, "will inherently include NRM because it is a political player." He said it is important "to include others and manage a transition … in terms of reforming the institutions, reforming the power system in the country so that we have a more stable system for our country."
Dr Besigye promised a special package for the whole of northern Uganda.

"Northern Uganda has not only suffered through war but also over marginalisation in government," he said, "(It) must be given affirmative action; we must provide special allocations to northern Uganda to bring it up to where the rest of the country is."

He singled out what he called "the threat of the numbers of widows and orphans that have been left behind by the situations that have happened in this region, especially the war and the attendant scourge of HIV/Aids", promising that his party has "provided special programmes and resources which will address the orphans and the widows that are now a major issue in different areas of northern Uganda."

Dr Besigye also promised to set up a truth telling and reconciliation commission "so that people know who did what and that there is justice and accountability as well as reconciliation… so that we dispose of our uncomfortable past. We feel that all authorities and individuals in this country should account as a basis for having a new beginning."
He said his agents had informed him that the ruling party campaigners had launched "a disinformation campaign" against him. He said his supporters were being told that should Dr Besigye win the coming election, there will be war; that he will stop the Born-again Christians from practicing their faith; that he will drive people of Rwandan origin out of the country; that he will not compensate the people of Lango who lost their cows and other things during war. The FDC presidential candidate, almost at each of the gatherings he addressed in Kole and Lira districts, denied all the accusations.

On denying the Born-again Christians from practicing their faith, for instance, Dr Besigye said: "I have spent all my life fighting for rights (and) I was among the people who wrote our Constitution that entrenched rights. So how can I turn around and play with the people's right to exercise their faith?"
He promised to increase the monthly pay for the elderly people from the current Shs25,000 to Shs60,000 beginning July 1.

Who will take Lango?
Lango sub-region was traditionally anti-Museveni, partly because it is former president Milton Obote's birthplace and many in the sub-region took long to forgive Mr Museveni for starting war against Obote after the 1980 elections. But Mr Museveni has since made up with Obote's family members. The Lord's Resistance Army rebellion, which devastated parts of Lango sub-region, further alienated Lango from Mr Museveni. But he won in Lango in 2011, beating Dr Besigye in each of the sub-region's eight districts and polling 240,506 votes, which accounted for 54 per cent.

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"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den onsdag, 10 februari 2016 8:55 skrev Isaac Kakwenza <isaac9779@gmail.com>:

The FDC programmes will be financed by resources mobilised through the following actions.

Reducing the size of government and eliminating waste.

Expanding the tax base through appropriate policies.

Streamlining the tax regime to make it fair..  equitable and transparent.

Ensuring transparent.. efficient and effective use of revenues from oil minerals and other natural resources.

Effective and efficient utilisation of grants and prudent borrowing.

Kakwenza Rukirabasaija on Facebook

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