According to Shawn Mubiru, herebelow is part of the National Consultation Final Compact. i. A new independent and impartial electoral commission must be established. The selection of commissioners and staff must follow a process of open application, public hearings and scrutiny conducted by the Judicial Service Commission.The successful applicants should be finally vetted by parliament and upon approval be submitted to the President for appointment. ii. Commissioners should serve for a guaranteed one, non-renewable seven (7) years term. iii. A commissioner may only be removed from office in exceptional circumstances for gross misconduct or incompetence. Such removal process should follow the same criteria and procedure applied in the removal of a High Court judge. iv .The new electoral commission must carry out a complete overhaul and review of existing staff of the commission, and returning and presiding officers. v. The selection of secretariat staff of the commission at all levels, and returning and presiding officers and polling assistants, must go through open selection and publicly advertised recruitment process. The wider, Sober and mob-less conversation begins. I have read somewhere Lukyamuzi Yozefu had some misgivings on this proviso. We discussed this proviso on Olutindo Radio Simba moderated by Peter Kibazo The appointment precess of Judges is after selection by the Judicial Service Commission, the President nominates and its those nominees that Parliament approves for appointment. There is a fundamental change of procedure in this proposal in as far as its being proposed for the appointment for the appointment of the Electoral Body , in a sense that Parliament merely vets nominees of of the Judicial Service commission for the presidents appointment. The president is at liberty to reject the said appointments and the cycle starts a flesh. Firstly, you will have reduced the powers of the sovereign to merely being vetting than approving. Secondary, the election process has timelines dictated by the constitution. Im advised by October 2015, you should be having presidential nominations, the timeline for petitions and swearing in is already set etc. Therefore there are on going electoral processes including but not limited to the procurement process of election materials, training and deployment of staffs. Some of these decisions need a fully constituted commission. Therefore, the disbanding of the Commission and the overhaul of the existing system of the current commission require time, and a freeze of most of the on going activities. This therefore by implication calls for either the extension of the term of Office of the president and or the establishment of the transitional government, that would exclude Museveni and whose elements and or procedure of construction was never debated and passed. The forum therefore passed a resolution that they were sure Museveni would reject. Why do I say so? Because most of the architects of this know Museveni than I can imagine. I actually overheard a Besigye aide press Godber to include a proviso to the effect that they would mobilise for the implementation of the resolutions. This brings me therefore to the two important submissions of Besigye and Otunu. They all called for regime change through action, mass or otherwise. Certainly Museveni would react and as it were with brute force. The two know this well. 2011, they failed to effect a boycott. And if its not going to be business as usual, how are you going to enforce these resolutions without recourse to armed violence. According to General Biraro, Musevenis government and parliament ought to be given an ultimatum to dissolve to a transitional government. And on declining to do so, there is then a justifiable reason to face Museveni militarily. This Hotel gathering then has had that effect; being an essential step to declaration of war. And according to my estimates, this process is on going and whose effect would ultimately result in no NRM Nambole processes elections at all. President Museveni would then extent his ruler-ship unlawfully and would lose legitimacy...a further justification for a fully blown out civil conflict that ultimately result in regime change. We will shortly introduce another item for a meaningful conversation.https://facebook/permalink.php?story_fbid=395028340652395&id=272329309588966¬if_t=like
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