THE CASE FOR NRM DELEGATES - DEC.15TH 2014 ==================================================== RESISTING SABOTEURS THAT WANT TO WEAKEN NRM FROM WITH-IN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What we need to Know and Do ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As you come to the 2nd National Conference, you need to be on alert and understand properly, the different interests of NRM saboteurs whose major agenda would be mainly to weaken NRM from inside after having failed to defeat it from the outside. Ask yourself questions like; Why do members of opposition get so excited about issues happening internally in NRM? Why do they come out strongly to show support to any leader in NRM who is seen to be taking a different direction – or is rebellious against his/her Party? They do this to ensure NRM is weakened from inside. That is why for example, they are so interested in making sure that NRM fields another Presidential candidate other than President Museveni who has been defeating them for all the time we have gone to the polls/elections. A weak candidate therefore from NRM will be their blessing. They will either easily defeat that candidate and therefore defeat NRM as a Party, or they will ally with that weak candidate and therefore sellout NRM. This is very fundamental and important that every member of NRM should understand and guard against. What is the strength of NRM? Our strength as a party lies with the grassroots masses. That support was long cultivated by our leader General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni- who continues to maintain it growing. They all know his strength. The duty therefore of us as members and leaders of the Party is to make decisions that will help the Party to sustain its grassroots support and continue to win successively. For every political Party to win elections, it must be well organized with well-maintained and run structures to reach its membership. Our current weakness as NRM is not lack of a superior ideology or a firm foundation neither is it lack of popular mass support. Our biggest challenge is organizational and therefore operational. Indeed, our weakness starts with a non-functioning National Secretariat and it runs down all Party structures and offices. We have failed to win elections in some areas during bi-elections not because that we have fewer members in those areas but due to poor mobilization and organization. The continuous political work that the National Secretariat would be doing among the members countrywide was deserted. This is the truth that we must all understand. If the National secretariat is not working full time – so will be the district and sub-county offices. This is the major problem that we need to urgently address. And whoever is opposed to our Party’s constitutional reforms aimed at Strengthening the capacity of the National Secretariat and lower structures is not only selfish but just an internal saboteur working to weaken the NRM Party. You cannot have full time workers at the Secretariat when the person who heads them (in this case the Secretary General) is not full time. Allegation on Killing Internal Democracy in NRM Those opposed to the idea of having a full-time appointed Secretary General that will run the National Secretariat full time as its chief administrator have put together a package of well spiced lies saying that the move and spirit of the proposed amendments is to kill internal democracy in NRM. That is not only false but a very weak and illogical argument. Who is saying that there is no internal democracy in NRM? Which other political Party organizes the most stiffly competed for and highly participatory internal elections as NRM does? All the other political Parties simply handpick flag bearers and can hardly talk of being able to conduct grassroots elections. In NRM all positions of political leaders are elective and nobody is suggesting to change that. The post of the Secretary General is an administrative position – and so it was a mistake or perhaps a deliberate strategy of some schemers from within to make it elective. Administrators are not elected but leaders are. This is a principle of both democracy and corporate governance. So let nobody fool us. As you will see below from some of the provisions of our Party Constitution, the work of the Secretary General is exactly the same as the work of an Administrative Secretary at District Level. So why isn’t the Administrative Secretary elected? He/she can’t be elected because he/she is not a leader but an administrator and so is the same case for the Secretary General. See below relevant constitutional provisions of the NRM Party that can help you fully appreciate this point; THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT (Article 16 of the NRM Constitution as amended in 2010) 1) There shall be a National Secretariat of NRM 2) The National Secretariat of NRM shall consist of; a) The Secretary General, who shall be the head of the Secretariat; b) Deputy Secretary General c) Director of Finance and Administration d) Director for Research e) Director for Economic Affairs f) Director for International Relations g) Director for Mobilization and Recruitment and Cadre Development h) Director for Legal Services i) Director for information, Publicity and Public relations 3) The Directors shall be appointed by the National Chairperson with the approval of CEC. 4) The support staff of the National Secretariat and of the office of the District Administrative Secretary shall be appointed by the Secretary General on the recommendation of the Appointments Committee established under article 16 (5). 5) There shall be an appointments committee of the National Secretariat 6) The Appointments Committee shall consist of the Director for Mobilization, Recruitment and Cadre Development as chairperson and the directors at the National Secretariat as members. 7) Under the direction of the Secretary General, the National Secretariat shall be responsible for: a) Implementation of the decisions of the National Conference and National Executive Council; b) Implementation of NRM policies, decision and directives on a day to day basis; c) Preparing rules, regulations and procedures for approval by the respective authorities with NRM; d) Preparing relevant papers and documents which will guide NRM organs in decision making e) Disseminating information from NRM Committee and Commissions to all organs of NRM; f) Enhancing the capacity of NRM for competitive group politics g) Providing administrative and secretarial services to the National Conference and National Executive Council; h) Coordination of the activities of all organs of NRM i) Maintaining a National Register of members j) Carrying out such other functions as may be assigned to it by the Chairperson, CEC or the National Executive Council.
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