Aboneka Writes

It has now become normal for the institutions of coercion to harass, torture, beat, kick and scorn Ugandans for standing up for what they believe in. The police has won a gold medal in the violation of Human rights ie torture, shootings, battering and assaulting citizens whom they are supposed to protect and serve, i find this ironical. There have been various reports say the Human Rights Watch report and even the Uganda Human Rights Commission's report which pointed to the massive torture of citizens contrary to Article 24 of the Constitution thus violating the Supreme law of the Land. I condemn with much disgrace the way the Police has previously "managed" Kampala and various scenes at KCCA and this doesn't in any way depict a "protect and serve police" but rather a 'beat and torture" police. I am in pains at the level of violation of citizens' rights in this country especially the Right to expression and I must say that our Country has gone

There has been a lot of mixed feelings, emotions and opinions about work at KCCA basing on the two distinct offices, Lord Mayor and the ED. There has been pulling ropes between the ED ad the Lord Mayor of which some other people have categorized as the Fight, hate, enmity between the two officers. Reference should be made to the KCCA Act establishing the Authority as to whether it envisaged such a situation to happen and as such provide preventive remedy. I have insisted that the problem at KCCA is unfortunately a creature of statute which needs reform. The reading of sections 9,10,11 of the KCCA Act create the office of the Lord Mayor. One of his function is to be a political head of the authority and that he is answerable to the Minister and the ED;11(2); How else would you want the Lord Mayor to exercise his political mandate apart from him going back to his electorates as a sign of accountability.? How can an elected Mayor be answerable to the minister yet he was elected by his

WE ARE NOT TOURISTS IN OUR OWN COUNTRY World over, every person is proud to belong to their country and they work day and night to ensure their country is the best. The citizens are the most important facet of any state; they determine the system of governance, distribution of resources and their livelihood. In Uganda, the Constitution gives the power to the people who shall determine when and how to be governed. This means that hey should be at the center of every aspect that will affect them from policy formulation to implementation. I have keenly followed events and my observation is that it seems we are being taken as tourists in our own country that those in leadership are doing us a favour to deliver the little they do. Do we need need for example to demonstrate in order to get good water, electricity, have roads fixed, increase our pay, pay arrears among others? Aren't there alternatives for dialogue? We as citizens give two things to the leaders; votes and taxes and in

In Uganda most of the cabinet ministers also double as MPs, something that we have generally accepted as normal. But looking at it from an angle of effective service delivery, this kind of arrangement needs to be dumped. For instance, how do you expect an Attorney General, who is supposed to be the government’s chief legal counsel, to articulate grievances of his people who accuse the same government of grabbing their land? Even without such contradictions, ministers tend to be very preoccupied with government work and rarely get time to attend to the problems of the people who voted for them. I personally last saw my area MP during campaigns and ever since she was appointed a minister, she has become a rare sight. Her agents keep telling us that the ministerial job has kept her busy but we elected her to represent our views. I know very many people get excited when their MP(s) are appointed to cabinet and hardly ever wonder how then these people would deliver on their campaign