The National Resistance Movement (NMR) party Deputy Spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo has criticized President Museveni’s plan to amend the Bail Act of the Constitution.
The President has of recent said that he will ask the 9th parliament that started work on May 19, to amend the bail Act such that anyone suspected of terrorism, riots, rape, defilement and treason be remanded for 180 days before applying for bail.
Opondo who has always been romanticizing every party’s abominable acts has for the first time said that his boss (Museveni) is altering the NRM’s principles as a liberation and revolutionary organization.
Opondo says that the NRM Chairman (Museveni) wants to corner the country back to the colonial era.
He asks the party not to invent the draconian laws that will erode the exclusive repute NRM has had nationally and internationally for about three decades.
Opondo, through the media, has asked President Museveni to give his proposal a second thought. He has asked both the NRM and opposition Members of Parliament not to pass the bill when presented to parliament.
The lawyers, under their umbrella, Uganda Law Society and other rights activists in Uganda have disagreed to the president’s proposal saying that if passed it will cause economic and political crisis in the country.
By Issa Asuman