Mityana South Member of Parliament, Richard Lumu has been advised to discard his proposed private member’s bill to amend the Administration of Parliament Act, the law that governs the election of the parliamentary leaders, and instead think of emphasising electoral reforms.
MP Lumu is seeking to change the method where an opposition party with majority members in the house appoint the leader of opposition, and replace it with a system where the Leader of Opposition would be elected by MPs from the party with the largest number of opposition MPs, chosen from among three nominees provided by the party.
The advice has been sounded by one of the prominent Mukono politicians and a senior lawyer, Nsubuga Kenneth Ssebagayunga, in an interview with Kyaggwe TV, he noted that the bottom line of the opposition’s struggle is replacing the sitting government.
Nsubuga said Lumu’s proposed bill does not in any way suggest how it will facilitate the removal of leadership where the head of state has powers to choose electoral commission leaders, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), prisons and judicial heads, some of which he said, are responsible for unleashing terror on the opposition.
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“It is self-defeating to engage in making legislation short of provisions to see President Museveni hand over power to his successor in a peaceful manner, possibly at Kololo grounds. Ugandans are anxiously waiting to witness this historical moment and we are under no obligation to frustrate them,” he noted.
Nsubuga, the member of the Democratic Party who is seeking to replace the Mukono North Member of Parliament, Abdallah Kiwanuka Mulimamayuuni of the National Unity Platform (NUP) in the next round of elections, advised that we should stop and ask how a referee who manages an election characterized by foul play does not manage subsequent elections for the sake of seeing democracy at play.
He did not spare opposition MPs whom he blamed for holding the mentality that they will eternally be in opposition, with no consideration that they have a duty to terminate leadership that has been imposed on Ugandans for decades and prepare themselves to get into control.
Nsubuga said, ‘Opposition MPs should start asking how they will handle matters when they come into leadership, instead of giving government the comfort created by itself through the overstay in power’.
The youthful lawyer defected from the ruling NRM and joined the Democratic Party which gave him a go-ahead to contest alongside former State Minister for Water Ronald Kibuule and incumbent Abdalla Kiwanuka subscribing to the NUP.
