{UAH} NRM STILL A SUCCESS STORY, BUT...

After 1996 elections, a bill was drafted for setting up Movement
system structure. Some had opinion that the National Political
Commissar and directors at the Movement Secretariat should be elected
by the National Conference other than appointed by Chairperson of the
Movement.
One of the early aspirants was Dr. Kizza Besigye, a former NPC, and
Maj. John Kazzora, a former SDA/DA/CGR/RDC Kabale and Kampala.
There was no doubt that Besigye, bhad already developed presidential
ambitions and he wanted to use the strategic position to fight from
within.
Eventually there was consensus in the 6th Parliament that the NPC and
other directors should be appointed by the Chairperson and approved by
the National Conference.
The Speaker of the 6th Parliament James Wapakhabulo resigned and was
appointed NPC, and according to the then New Vision's Political
Writer, Ofwono Opondo, he was being groomed as a Presidential
Successor.
Among the directors appointed was Eng. Winnie Byanyima who was
Director of Information. She never worked and when she spear headed
the censure of cabinet ministers Maj. Jim Muhwezi and Sam Kahamba
Kuteesa, among other things, she was sacked and replaced by Ofwono
Opondo.
After 2001 elections, Wapakhabulo was elavated to Third Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Cryspus Kiyonga was
made Minister without portfolio and National Political Commissar.
The NRM background which feared to separate Chairperson of the
executive committee from the legislative organ as a result between the
late Prof. Yusuf Lule and Prof. Edward Rugumayo in 1979, and a clash
between the Political Commission chairperson Godfrey Binaisa and
Military Commission, the late Paulo Muwanga in 1980, in 1986 made
Chairperson of NRM to be to be automatically the Chairperson of /NRA
High Command and NRC, and since 2005 the National Chairperson of NRM
is automatically the Chairperson of the Central Executive Committee,
the National Executive Committee and the National Conference.
It is likely that in the coming National Conference meeting in
December, the party constitution is likely to be amended so that the
National Chairperson is likely to get powers to appoint a General
Secretary and a Deputy General Secretary as it is the case with some
parties like ANC, to replace a Secretary General and Deputy Secretary
General elected by the National Conference.
The National Conference and it worked very well and Justine Kasule
Lumumba, Rose Namayanja, work well as Secretary General and National
Treasurer, so are others.

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