Uganda Peoples Congress

UGANDA Peoples Congress has criticised former Samia Bugwe North member of Parliament Aggrey Awori for describing the party as a family business.
Addressing the weekly press briefing in Kampala yesterday, UPC party President Miria Obote said the party had not ‘died’ as Mr Awori would like many people to believe.

“We are still very much alive and doing everything possible to rebuild UPC into a strong vibrant party. This is one of the issues we are addressing in our five-year strategic plan that we launched recently,’’ she said.

“UPC is not a family business and we have never been a tribal party. The party executive in the 1960’s embraced everyone from all over Uganda. For Awori to say UPC is a family party is regrettable.’’

Awori joins NRM
Mr Awori, a former staunch member of the UPC, recently crossed to the ruling National Resistance Movement.
Media reports on Wednesday quoted Mr Awori as saying he had quit UPC because the party had been turned into a family business and was a dead party whose supporters have failed to recruit more members into it.
Ms Obote said if UPC was a family party, delegates from all over the country would not have elected her to lead it.

“The late president Milton Obote did not leave a will behind which said I should take over from him. I stood for the presidency of the party and was democratically elected by the people. Is that what Awori calls a family affair? Ms Obote asked.

UPC party vice president Livingstone Okello Okello said in the new multiparty political dispensation, people are at liberty to move from one political party to another.
“People can move from one party to another, especially those who do not have principles and a reputation to protect. But when you leave, do not tarnish the name of your former party because you might one day return to it,’’ he said.

Mr Okello Okello said he was surprised that it took Mr Awori close to 30 years to realise that UPC was a dead party.

“Dead parties do not address press conferences every Wednesday and also participate in general elections,’’he said.

- Monitor, March 29, 2007

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U.P.C - UG. PRESIDENT IS

IN GULU TOWN, UGANDA.

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ALL ARE WELCOME

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A FRESH NEW START

FOR UGANDA? AFRICA.

MIRIA KALULE OBOTE,

U.P.C. - UG. PRESIDENT.

"God Help Us"-Bottom:

May 12, 2006: Prez. Mu7

Swearing in for the 4th time

Since 1985 as UG. President.

H.E. MAMA MIRIA O.K.

CONFIRMS 7-YEAR TERM

OF OFFICE FOR THE UPC

- KAMPALA, UGANDA -

ACCOMPLISHED - U.P.C. STATEMENT

2006 ELECTION RESULTS:
UGANDA PEOPLES CONGRESS
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT

PRESS RELEASE

UPC POSITION ON THE PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, 2006

1. Ugandans have just gone through the process of Presidential and Parliamentary elections. All of us had hoped for a free and fair process leading to results that could be accepted by all stakeholders especially the losers.

2. Regrettably the process was blatantly unfair. Everybody knows what has happened but we can point out a few salient issues:

(a) The political parties who are the major stakeholders in a multiparty election were by constitutional, legal and administrative measures debarred for nearly twenty years from participating in the politics of Uganda and reaching their grassroot supporters. On the other hand, the National Resistance Movement has for twenty years enjoyed state patronage and resources to campaign for itself and to decampaign its political opponents whether individuals or political parties. The NRM secretariat which was an institutionalized department of government continued to campaign for NRM as a political party up to polling day.

(b) For twenty years the security services, especially the National Resistance Army now UPDF and the Internal Security Organization (ISO) continued to act in a sectarian manner to campaign for the movement and intimidate and harass political opponents. In the just concluded elections, the UPDF was deployed in most sub-counties to parade and terrorise the villages, and intimidate the voters. The message was clear: either Ugandans vote for the NRM or risk being engulfed in war. Accordingly, the people did not vote of their free will, but out of fear.

(c) The NRM took advantage of its incumbency, to abuse state resource for massive buying of votes and for funding its excessively lavish campaign. This was in sharp contrast to the opposition and its supporters who have been deliberately impoverished for two decades. The desperately poor voters became easy prey to NRM vote-buying.

(d) There was massive abuse of the voter register. The appeal to extend the voter registration exercise fell on deaf ears. As a result, thousands of eligible voters were disfranchised. Even some of those who had managed to beat the registration deadline, found their names missing from the voter register. There was no satisfactory reason for the removal of thousands of registered voters from the register. These voters were targeted and deliberately eliminated from the register.

(e) The President’s Office and the State House that control vast resources and all security agencies, acting through the state structures, including RDC’s, DISO, LC structures and even public service structures unleashed a terror campaign against voters especially those working in the public sector.

3. Now that the elections are over, we have to reflect on our past and chart a better course for our country. The UPC calls upon the President elect to urgently address the serious short-coming that have characterized our politics and electoral process over the past 20 years.

To save this country from the prospect of further chaos and war, economic and social decline, and possible national disintegration measures should be taken to:

(a) Reconcile Ugandans with one another. The President should agree with the UPC proposal to appoint an impartial Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
(b) Demonstrate genuine magnanimity by withdrawing all politically motivated criminal charges against political opponents.

(c) Demonstrate even-handedness in the management and allocation of national and public resources. The practice of making appointments to public offices and awarding of tenders for public contracts on the basis of family, clan, ethnicity and political affiliation should stop henceforth.

(d) Institutionalize a system to allocate national resources fairly among all districts and regions of Uganda. Affirmative action should be instituted to redress the unfairness meted out to various sections, of the population, districts and regions of Uganda.

(e) Demilitarise politics. The army and all security agencies should not be used and abused for sectarian and political gains.

(f) Stop the use and abuse of public resources to further the personal and political interests of the President and/or his political party and cronies.

(g) End the two-decade long fratricidal war in northern and parts of eastern Uganda. The people in these regions desperately need peace and a return to normal and decent lives in their homes.

(h) Undertake genuine and concerted efforts to stamp out the cancer of corruption in the country which is being nursed by those in leadership and positions of influence.

(i) Rationalise the administrative units to ensure that they are economically viable and not an unnecessary burden to the taxpayer. We should aim at bigger administrative units working under a federal system.

(j) Re-establish peaceful and friendly relations with all our neighbours.

4. We thank the people of Uganda for the warm and friendly reception they accorded to us during the campaigns and for their active participation in the campaign process inspite of all the immense odds.

5. We thank all the members of the Uganda Peoples Congress for their selfless efforts in the campaign. We warmly congratulate those of our members who were elected to Parliament.

6. The UPC wishes to assure all its members and all persons of goodwill of our determination to continue with our concerted to efforts to establish genuine multiparty democracy in Uganda.

7. Finally, we wish our country reconciliation, unity, peace and prosperity.


For God and my Country.

Miria Kalule Obote
PRESIDENT

Kampala, Saturday 25th February, 2006

2006 ARE IN PROGRESS

OF UGANDA SET TO RAISE UP THE

UG. PREZ. FLAG EFFECTIVE FEB. 24

- THE BUGANDA ANTHEM -

(SONG: THANKU OUR MAMA)

FOR A FRESH & NEW START

"FOR GOD & OUR COUNTRY"

(Q. QUOTE - PSALMS. 33:12)

OF LOVE, PEACE. UNITY & RECONCILIATION

CONTINUES TO BE CARRIED ON BY H.E.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE FROM

THE CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE, H.E.

THE HON. MAMA MIRIA MILTON OBOTE K.

ACCORDING TO HER LATEST 53.3% LEAD

OVER FOUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN

CREDIBLE PUBLIC OPINION POLL SURVEYS.

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AND THE TIME FOR PEACE

IN UGANDA IS RIGHT NOW

UNDER A NEW U.P.C GOVT.

- SAYS H.E. THE HON. MAMA

MAMA MIRIA KALULE OBOTE

THANKS! TO ALL FOR YOUR DILIGENT SUPPORT.

OF THE NATION

& "THE CORAZON AQUINO OF UGANDA"

H.E. THE HON. MAMA MIRIA K. OBOTE HAS

PROMISED THE BAGANDA THROUGH P.M. DAN

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-MENT FOR BUGANDA IN PARTICULAR, &

FOR THE WHOLE OF UGANDA IN GENERAL.

LAWYERS (UWONET) & WOMEN OF UG.

NETWORK (WOUGNET) THROW THEIR

WEIGHT BEHIND HER EXCELLENCE

THE HON. MAMA MIRIA

KALULE OBOTE.

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