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Added 16th March 2017 07:31 PM

The President of Uganda should remain directly elected by the people of Uganda
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By Ahmed Kateregga Musaazi

While debating EBYAFFE constitutional amendment in NRC in 1993, the
late Jack Maumbe Mukwana said that what happened during 1966 Uganda
Crisis was not a revolution but a palace coup. He was right because
Obote after abolishing kingdoms and federal states and replacing them
with a very centralised imperial presidency as its CEO, he never held
elections.

Otherwise, to borrow from the late Prof. Ali Mazrui, Obote, like the
late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, had turned into a Lenist Tsar. He deposed Sir
Edward Muteesa only to make himself king under an imperial presidency
that was stopped with the promulgation of 1995 Constitution.

So it is wrong for Uganda, a republic, to call upon a President to
anoint his successor. That is tantamount into turning the country into
a monarchy. Then why did we shed blood in 1966? Why did we shed blood
for 1981-1986 liberation war?

In a people's democratic republic, where there is universal adulthood
suffrage and popular participation, it is an insult, to the people, to
tell an incumbent President to anoint his successor.

While according to the Bible, Jesus anointed St. Peter as his
successor, this is mostly acceptable to Roman Catholics who still
regard the Pope as the rightful successor of Peter. The Greek
Orthodox and other Eastern churches have their own popes, one sitting
in former Constantinople now Istanbul, the then capital of Byzantium
or Eastern Roman Empire, another in Alexander in Egypt, etc… The
Protestant churches including Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists,
Pentecostals don't believe in the Papacy at all.

In Sunni or main stream Orthodox Islam, Prophet Muhammad died without
anointing a successor. The Muhajiroon or Immigrants, from Mecca wanted
to take over. The Answars or helpers, of Medina said it was their
turn. Then there were aristocrats of Mecca, w

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