Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs who also doubles as President General of Democratic Party (DP), Nobert Mao has assured the public that they (DP) will not declare total war because it is not worthwhile.
Addressing journalists at party headquarters in Balintuma yesterday, Mao revealed that he wouldn’t have wished to be alive at a better time than “this one, insisting that it is a season of revelation.”
“Things that had been hidden in the dark are now being proclaimed in the open. Oh my God, it is such a joy,” he said.
He revealed, “I want to acknowledge that we have disagreements in the party but how do you solve disagreements? Through the party Constitution. I wish to warn those DP members who actually think the party doesn’t have a Constitution. The people who go around saying that the DP offices are now a barracks, when they came here they found not even a scout, I have my bodyguards that I was given even before I became a minister.”
“Why was I given bodyguards, because some people recorded a video saying they were going to kill me. If you warn me that you are going to kill me, I am not interested in being a martyr because I think God sent me on earth to solve the problems on earth, when my time comes I will join them (martyrs).”
Mao further insisted that they have refused to be provoked and that they will not allow themselves to be provoked.
“We held a very fruitful meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and I can tell you that the largest majority of our members support the direction we have taken. There is a noisy minority which we cannot even count on our fingers and of course, they have their allies in the media.”
He wondered which party doesn’t have wrangles, adding that even Religious institutions have wrangles.
He, therefore, vowed to stay on track with the decision they have taken because it is correct.
Mao revealed that the more power one has, the more humble he becomes.
“People ask me, one time you declared a one man’s war what happened? Again, when you have too many guns, you become a peaceful man because you realise that it is not necessary and i think the most combatted people are the most weak and powerless. The more power you have, the more humility.”
Mao also maintained that the challenges they face as a party must make them better not bitter and that there is a difference between those who believe in Mao and those who believe in other leaders.
“Am not paying rent in some people’s brains but I leave there 24 hours. What a privilege. You roam in one’s brain but yet you don’t pay rent there. Some of you are asking, I have been a bit quiet about my haters, a man said if he has six hours to cut a tree, he will spend four hours sharpening his axe, and I pity those who try to cut down a big tree with a blunt axe because it is a very difficult task,” he emphasized.
Mao further revealed that following resolution, he expects to meet the President of Uganda to brief him and then he will go to Parliament and make a Ministerial statement then they get to work on some issues.
He noted, “Most of the proposals are already on my desk and I think 90 percent of what Ugandans want depends on the Constitution. Even yours of Uganda Journalist Association (UJA). You fail to manage your elections and for the musicians who always sing about our elections, how come they haven’t sung about their own sham election.
“Land, our country is a country of lots of peasants, how can we protect the security of tenure? Devolution, giving power back to smaller units, sharing power between the National government and lower units. The debate on federalism has got to be resurrected. DP believes in federalism and as DP and a leader, it is my duty to promote it.”
Mao, however, insisted that he is not in DP to take anything because he has given a lot to DP and that it has also given him a lot which is not in material sense but because he believes in what DP believes in, having a Government whose foundation is truth and justice.
“Why do you think those echoing us cannot dare debate us? Because they have no issues, what we have done is unprecedented. In consultation with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) with whom we have a corporation agreement, I believe we shall make public a signed document. But the document you people have is the same document, it only doesn’t have the signatures.”
By Hope Kalamira
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