Fred Kalema, the NRM party Chairperson for Nyendo-Ssenyange division in Masaka City, before the party conducts elections of its leadership structure, there is a need to streamline regulations to prevent people from holding multiple positions with competing responsibilities.
The National Resistance Movement-NRM party has cautioned against
overloading its structure leaders with multiple responsibilities, which compromises
their levels of efficiency.
Fred Kalema, the NRM party Chairperson for Nyendo-Ssenyange
division in Masaka City, says that before the party conducts elections of its leadership
structure, there is a need to streamline regulations to prevent people from
holding multiple positions with competing responsibilities.
According to the NRM election roadmap, the members will this
month begin the process of electing leaders of their internal organs, right from
the village councils up to the Central Executive Committee, as part of the preparations
for the next elections that are due next year.
Kalema prefers that persons holding key positions of the operational
organs of the party be barred from seeking leadership positions in general elections,
to allow them to concentrate on the party’s mobilisation activities.
Speaking at the launch of the construction of NRM headquarters
for Masaka district, at Nkuke trading centre in Buwunga sub-county, Kalema observed
a need for the Party to stop its top leaders from seeking multiple offices that
have highly demanding tasks. He indicates that for instance,
the practice of allowing members of party’s Central Executive Committee-CEC to
contest Members of Parliament, L.CV Chairpersons or even become Ministers, overloads
their potentials hence failing to deliver on their tasks, hence crippling the
party’s mobilization activities.
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Madinah Nanyonyo, one of the intending aspirants for Masaka
district Women’s League Chairperson, has asked the party Secretariat to move faster
and directly manage internal contradictions, by restraining aspirants from the use
of hate speech and blackmail.
She is afraid that the unregulated use of blackmail among
aspirants in the party primaries may divide their grassroots membership, which
will eventually affect the party’s performance in the general elections.
Peter Ssenkungu, the Masaka City and District NRM Chairperson,
who spearheaded the construction of party headquarters, implored the party's
top leadership to start the process of acquiring physical assets as their lasting
legacy in communities.
He indicates that, as the district party leadership, they have
consulted their structures and members on proposals that can reform the
party’s administration styles, adding that he is optimistic that some of the ideas
will be considered ahead of the party primaries.
