Persons living with disabilities have called for consideration for the posts of Resident district commissioners. The disability community that gathered at Tal cottages in Lubaga, Kampala over electoral process awareness said that in about 180 RDCs and assistant RDCs there is no one with disability saying that this could be discrimination. Members of Parliament for persons with disabilities who included Safia Nalule, Hood Katuramu, Alex Ndezi said that they are also capable of supervising and monitoring government programmes as well as popularizing the ruling government in the country as RDCs are doing.
Persons with disabilities asked the appointing authority of RDCs to first induct RDCs captured from the opposition for a period of one year before they are deployed. They said that some RDCs need to be lectured on issues of disabilities because they are not friendly to persons with disabilities while executing their work. The group also demanded for ministerial posts so as the issues affecting them are well articulated at cabinet level and tasked their members of parliament to ensure that they meet the president to hear their concerns.
The MP for persons with disabilities for Northern Uganda William Nochrach also asked president Yoweri Museveni to fulfil his promise to district leaders of persons with disabilities of providing them with motorcycles to enable them monitor government projects and accessing parts of their areas which could be difficult for them without transport.
The special presidential Advisor on RDCs Mohammed Mayanja apologized for not including persons with disabilities on the list of people who were deployed as RDCs. Mayanja said that the matter will be forwarded to the president for consideration.
