President Abdelwahed Radi of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly arrived at EntebbeInternationalAirporton Tuesday for the 126th Parliamentary Assembly.
Abdelwahed Radi Radi was welcomed by the Speaker of Uganda Parliament ms Rebecca Kadaga and the leader of opposition, Nandala Mafabi at Entebbe International airport.
The IPU meeting will run from March 31st to April 5th at the Commonwealth Speke Resort Hotel Munyonyo. Kadaga says that the conference to be opened by president Museveni will bring together over 3000 delegates from across the world.
Kadaga says that the meeting will discuss good governance, rule of law, maternal health, vote rigging, domestice violence and the increasing police brutality inUgandaamong other issues.
IPU is an international organization of world Parliaments established in 1889. IPU works for peace and co-operation among peoples’ and for the firm establishment of representative democracy.
Ms Kadaga struggle to bring IPU conference to Uganda because many members of IPU consider Uganda as undemocratic because of the corruption, shielding corrupt ministers, displacing people from land largely because they are not in good books with the government in power, nepotism, favouritism in job allocation, tribalism in job promotion, oppression of opposition politicians and supporters, denial of Kabaka Mutebi’s right to move freely around the country, imprisonment of people without trial and vote rigging reportedly by the party in power, the National Resistance Movement.