The National Resistance Movement-NRM party has cautioned against overloading its structure leaders with multiple responsibilities, which compromises their levels of efficiency.
Fred Kalema, the NRM party Chairperson for Nyendo-Ssenyange division in Masaka City, says that before the party conducts elections of its leadership structure, there is a need to streamline regulations to prevent people from holding multiple positions with competing responsibilities.
According to the NRM election roadmap, the members has this month begin the process of electing leaders of their internal organs, right from the village councils up to the Central Executive Committee, as part of the preparations for the next elections that are due next year.
Kalema prefers that persons holding key positions of the operational organs of the party be barred from seeking leadership positions in general elections, to allow them to concentrate on the party’s mobilisation activities.
Speaking at the launch of the construction of NRM headquarters for Masaka district, at Nkuke trading centre in Buwunga sub-county, Kalema observed a need for the Party to stop its top leaders from seeking multiple offices that have highly demanding tasks.
He indicates that for instance, the practice of allowing members of party’s Central Executive Committee-CEC to contest Members of Parliament, L.CV Chairpersons or even become Ministers, overloads their potentials hence failing to deliver on their tasks, hence crippling the party’s mobilization activities.
Madinah Nanyonyo, one of the intending aspirants for Masaka district Women’s League Chairperson, has asked the party Secretariat to move faster and directly manage internal contradictions, by restraining aspirants from the use of hate speech and blackmail.
She is afraid that the unregulated use of blackmail among aspirants in the party primaries may divide their grassroots membership, which will eventually affect the party’s performance in the general elections.
Peter Ssenkungu, the Masaka City and District NRM Chairperson, who spearheaded the construction of party headquarters, implored the party’s top leadership to start the process of acquiring physical assets as their lasting legacy in communities.
He indicates that, as the district party leadership, they have consulted their structures and members on proposals that can reform the party’s administration styles, adding that he is optimistic that some of the ideas will be considered ahead of the party primaries.
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