THE PARTIES PLATFORM (TPP)
PLOT 40B,
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PRESS BRIEF
1.
· It is strange and regrettable how leaders, Ministries and institutions work in an uncoordinated manner in this country.
· While Ugandans have been crying, wailing and waiting for a saviour from the biting poverty in the whole nation, our institutions, and ministries act differently.
· Although we sympathise with the National Referral Hospital on the shortages they experience in many areas of their work plus the inadequate pay of medical personnel ; it is also important for our beloved doctors not to miss the bigger picture of Uganda’s economy, the remunerations of other civil servants, and the whole working and peasantry classes in Uganda in relation to the new charges at Mulago private wing.
· We appeal to government to be more sympathetic with the poor people of
Started. Since the war in Northern and North-Eastern Uganda has ended, we appeal to the government to reduce on the defence budget so as to accommodate Mulago’s high demands. We also want to appeal to the government especially the Ministry of Health to change in their priorities instead of every staff at the Ministry of Health to drive 4 x 4 wheel drives which costs over 100 million shillings each, to instead use smaller vehicles and invest the balance in hospitals. Patients have no beds and beddings, no medicine in all hospitals, no adequate doctor supervision to patients, but the ministry
looks like a Ministry of Transport with that huge fleet of 4x4 vehicles at the Health Ministry.
2. THE SECRET VOTING IN THE NEW DISTRICTS
The Parties Platform would like to register and express our dissatisfaction yet again with the Electoral Commission, especially on the way it has handled the concluded elections in the new districts.
We were rudely awakened by the news headline in The News Vision that the NRM has swept the votes in all the new districts. We are surprised and worried where
How can you have elections in 11 Districts in secrecy without clearly informing all the registered political parties and the people of
We want to remind the electoral commission that it is under obligation to inform all registered political parties and all the people of
This justifies our fears and demands that the electoral commission should include members from the opposition political parties. Could this be the reason why the electoral commission and the government have refused to operationalise the National Consultative Forum and the Code of Conduct for Political Parties as prescribed in sections 19 and 20 of the Political Parties and Organisations Act, 2005. We are consulting with our lawyers on the next course of action.
Signed:
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EMMANUEL TUMUSIIME
CHAIRMAN TPP