{"id":16440,"date":"2015-02-09T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2015-02-09T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:34:13","slug":"nrm-caucus-fails-to-agree-on-presidential-transition-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nrm-caucus-fails-to-agree-on-presidential-transition-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"NRM caucus fails to agree on Presidential Transition bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NRM members attending the Kyankwanzi retreat have failed to reach a consensus on the controversial proposed bill to provide for Presidential Transition.
\nThis comes just days after Buikwe South MP Dr. Lulume Bayiga was denied leave of parliament to table a Private Members\u2019 Bill on Presidential Transition.
\nSources from Kyankwanzi indicate that the matter was raised by Iganga district Woman MP Olivia Kabaale who sought to know the party\u2019s position on this bill.
\nIn response, the Deputy Attorney General Fred Ruhindi said the Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue was considering the issue among other proposed constitutional amendments so there was no need for the opposition to rush.
\nHe explained that the proposed bill was being misinterpreted because originally it was meant to give security to the outgoing president to ensure comfort but not to oversee his way out.
\nThe issue is expected to be discussed further in the due course.
\nIn a related development, President Yoweri Museveni has expressed concern over the high temperatures currently experienced in many parts of the country.
\nAddressing NRM caucus members attending a week-long retreat at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi, Museveni blamed the excessive heat on destruction of the wetlands.
\nHe is now calling for support to ensure that the wetlands that have been encroached upon are reclaimed, suggesting that a fund be set up to compensate the affected people.
\nEarlier, Sudanese Vice-President, Hasabo Mohammed Abdalla, hailed the NRM Caucus members for holding an annual retreat where they exchange ideas that are beneficial to society.
\nThis came shortly after President Museveni held a meeting with South Sudanese Vice-President.
\nVice President Abdalla has proposed exchange visits between members of the NRM Caucus with those of their National Congress Party of the Sudan in order to strengthen the African solidarity and cooperation for the good of the people of the continent.
\nMembers of the NRM who were recently appointed by president Museveni to take up top party positions will not resign.
\nThis has been confirmed by the party\u2019s outgoing Chief Whip Kasule Lumumba who was appointed Secretary General among three other leaders.
\nLumumba is however optimistic that by the end of the NRM Caucus retreat, the president will have found their replacements.
\nThe others to be replaced include Richard Todwong who became the party\u2019s Deputy Secretary Seneral, Rose Namayanja who is the party National Treasurer and Kenneth Omona who is the deputy treasurer.
\nMeanwhile she says Political experts from Ethiopia and Malaysia are to address NRM legislators in Kyankwanzi this week on issues to do with political ideology and economic transformation.
\nStill in a related development, the leader of opposition in parliament Wafula Oguttu says he is not moved by the presence of independent legislators in Kyankwanzi.
\nOguttu says he was informed that the MPs were invited as resource persons as the NRM debates electoral reforms.
\nHe however says if the MPs attend the whole week retreat, then questions should be raised.
\nIn an earlier development,
\nIndependents MPs were asked to desist from taking sides while performing their duties.
\nThis is after a total of 35 out of 43 independent MPs chose to attend the NRM retreat at the National leadership institute in Kyankwanzi.
\nTheir chairperson of the independents in parliament, Sam Otada says the legislators who attended the retreat are opportunists and should be condemned.
\nOtada however says there is little he can do to bring the MPS to order
\nDuring the week-long retreat that opened yesterday, the NRM leaders are expected to among other things review the party\u2019s manifesto for the past five years.
\nThe NRM\u2019s annual retreat is running under the theme; Fast tracking NRM manifesto 2011-16: Our commitment to service delivery, job and wealth creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NRM members attending the Kyankwanzi retreat have failed to reach a consensus on the controversial proposed bill to provide for Presidential Transition. This comes just days after Buikwe South MP Dr. Lulume Bayiga was denied leave of parliament to table a Private Members\u2019 Bill on Presidential Transition. Sources from Kyankwanzi indicate that the matter was raised by Iganga district Woman MP Olivia Kabaale who sought to know the party\u2019s position on this bill. In response, the Deputy Attorney General Fred Ruhindi said the Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue was considering the issue among other proposed constitutional amendments so there was no need for the opposition to rush. He explained that the proposed bill was being misinterpreted because originally it was meant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}