Museveni serving own interests, says Muntu

Kamuli. FDC president Mugisha Muntu has said President Museveni allowed a multi-party system of government to serve his personal interests.
Maj Gen Muntu, who alongside his predecessor Kizza Besigye, are currently on a countrywide tour seeking endorsement for the FDC party flag bearer in the 2016 polls.
Gen Muntu claimed that Mr Museveni opened the political space to excite the public and cajole Members of Parliament into amending the Constitution to remove presidential term limits.
Addressing a rally at Kamuli Park last Saturday, the FDC president said Mr Museveni’s moves amounted to “introducing of politics of personal interests and killing democratic governance”.
“He came in the name and image of the NRM party but now he is attending to personal issues, opened multiparty with selfish interest of removing term limits. Now we are talking about [Dr Kizza] Besigye, Muntu, Amama Mbabazi, Museveni instead of giving the public choices of services we expect to offer, which is diversionary,” he said.
He said the NRM under Mr Museveni has deviated from the core programmes and values for which those who participated in the NRM/A bush war fought.
However, the NRM deputy spokesperson, Mr Ofwono Opondo, when contacted, said Gen Muntu was only admitting failure to mobilise for his party.
“That is an admission by Gen Muntu that he has failed to mobilise for FDC. We have had by-elections at different levels and we are going into a third general election. At least Gen Muntu has never had a burden to run a government. That is an admission that they are failing,” Mr Opondo said.
The NRM, Gen Muntu said, has allowed corruption and personal interests to eat away good governance and integrity.
“We should be giving people choices as per our programmes not persons who downplay democratic principles we purport to have fought for,” he said.
He promised zero-tolerance to corruption, restoration of the rule of law and ensuring that the populace moves from survival livelihoods, which are prone to manipulation through tokenism, to a sense of entitlement, freedom and rights.
“My mission is to create good governance, equal justice and order so that the communities are at peace with themselves, become more creative and innovative and move away from survival livelihoods,” the FDC president said.
Gen Muntu said an FDC government under him will among other things review the tax system, target agriculture development by opening up of an agriculture bank and work on ensuring that the public accesses quality education and better primary healthcare.

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