By; News room
The former presidential contestant John Mabirizi, has said that the continued call by politicians for electoral reforms is a waste of time with the current government still in power.
Speaking to journalists during a two day National Consultative Forum (NCF) for political parties and political organizations’ in Entebbe, Mabirizi said that people had long been giving in deliberations on the reforms they wished for but nothing had been changed by government.
He said that the reforms ever discussed are never implemented by government and called for an independent electoral commission to be established, accusing President Museveni of employing his gollira tactics to mess public office with the only alternative to save this country is by removing him from leadership.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Aisha Nabasirye Gitta who is also the Chairperson of National Women’s Leader told journalists that there is need for electoral reforms amidst people’s willingness to choose their own leader like in the just concluded Kyaddondo east by-election.
Some of the reforms noted are free media access and during elections, reduction in nomination fees for candidates, curbing of improper actions by state security forces, setting term limits for women members of parliament, among others.
However the Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana who chaired the meeting in response sounded sarcastic saying the meetings are only meant to get their opinions but not resolutions and it’s upon the government to find where to make amendments.
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