MASAKA DECLARATION
TO:
ANNUAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE MEMBERS (ADC)
NATIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS (NC)
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
RE: NOTICE OF IMPEACHMENT
We as members of the Uganda Peoples Congress, gathered this 24th day of July 2011 in Masaka District comprising of members from Masaka, Sembabule, Rakai and Lyantonde Districts do hereby resolve to exercise the powers vested in us under the 1970 Constitution of the Party Article 7 subsection 6,“The President shall relinquish office on being ... third majority of the Annual Delegates Conference. The motion for the resolution must be signed by at least one-half of the members of the National Council.”
The following are the grounds under which we as members of the Party seek to bring forth a motion to move a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in the Party President Dr. Olara Otunnu;
1. BOYCOTTING THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS:
Not voting for the Party and himself in the just concluded 2011 General Elections. Being the custodian of the Party his actions dented the performance of the Party in the Local Government Elections that were held on the 22/Feb/2011 and 2rd/March/2011 simultaneously. The electorate perceived it, that UPC was for a boycott and therefore no need to vote for the Party flag bearers/candidates, not forgetting that his actions amounted to not voting for the UPC Parliamentary Candidates.
2. THE PARTY MANIFESTO 2011 AND CANDIDATES FUNDING:
He led the Party into the 2011 General Elections without a Manifesto, not only did the Party President stop at that he went ahead to fool the members by calling for “the launch of the manifesto in Jinja Kakindu Stadium,” a function in which he launched air, however in the middle of the campaign he came up with a campaign manifesto without printing enough copies besides being heavily funded. The Party President exhibited the highest level of deceit against the principle of sincerity in political leadership , when he promised all Party flag bearers at Parliamentary and Local Government Five (LC5) levels to finance their campaigns worth Two Million Shillings, to this day nothing substantive to this promise has been realised.
3. THE 1985 COUP AND DR. OLARA OTUNNU:
On his return in the country he, the Party President persistently kept lying to the members of the Party that in 1985 when the Okello-Okello Junta over threw the then Uganda Peoples Congress Government, that he (the Party President) consulted with the then former UPC Party President Dr. Apollo Milton Obote(RIP) who gave him Clearance to join the junta, which isn’t true. He (Dr. Olara Otunnu) was simply part and parcel of the coup. In this vain Dr. Olara Otunnu revoked his membership in the Party. A simple apology would have salvaged him however having consistently and persistently denied his participation amounts to deceit. This has left us wondering whether his actions in 2011 are designed to also undermine the Party?
4. CONTRADICTORY POLITICAL POLICIES:
One year since his election the Party President has been forming loose political alliances which in one way or another can’t project the image of the Party for example: National Social Movement, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE)/Blue Book Project and currently Free Uganda Now. These “political vector moves” without consolidating one policy at a time depicts a failure to derive at a common political policy for the Party. WE CAN’T AS A PARTY CONTINUE WITH THAT.
5. DOCTRINE OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTION:
Mismanaging of the just concluded Party Grass-root Elections and conducting them in a manner which lacked transparency and openness in western Uganda. In this light the Party President went against his conscience which saw him launch Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) which demands for democratic principles to be followed to the dot. We want to reiterate here that the party president lacks moral instinct for a free and fair democratic practices and that explain why he was privy to the 1985 coup despite election then being at the corner.
6. NAMBOOLE PROMISES:
Failure to reconcile the Party and thus causing many defections of UPC members to other Parties, party structures are still lacking at large in Buganda and Western Uganda. This is contrary to his Victory speech delivered at Namboole. Poor performance of the Party in the just concluded 2011 General Elections; thus in his tenure the Party has been reduced to a sub-region.
Withstanding to the above mentioned reasons I hereby do call the house, here gathered to adopt the MASAKA DECLARATION and henceforth move a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in the Party President Dr. Olara Otunnu.
The MASAKA DECLARATION as adopted shall be distributed and circulated to all the above mentioned organs of the Party country wide seeking to enforce the resolution.
KIGONGO BEN BAKKABULINDI
CHAIRPERSON ELECT CENTRAL REGION
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE
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