Dr. Abed Bwanika

Bwanika says the results of the 2011 elections left a bitter taste in all opposition parties who complain of having lost in an unfair election.

The Electoral Commission announced President Yoweri Museveni of the NRM as the winner of the 2011 presidential polls with over 68.85 of the votes cast.

All opposition parties have described the 2011 elections as lacking the will of the people, with voter bribery, intimidation and outright ballot stuffing among the mentioned anomalies.

Some of the opposition leaders who lost led by Forum for Democratic Change President Kizza Besigye, Democratic Party president Nobert Mao, Uganda People’s Congress President Olara Otunu and Independent Sam Walter Lubega calling for mass protests against the election results.

Museveni has vowed to crush any opposition protests, with a recent one organized in the city on Wednesday well foiled by heavy police and military deployments.

But Bwanika says instead of declaring military might and a winner takes it all attitude, the government should seek for ways of listening to the genuine grievances of the opposition.

He says a national consultative conference would be in order so that all political parties contribute to the drawing of the way forward on elections and other political reforms necessary for improving democracy and governance in Uganda.

Ultimate Media

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The Political Parties that turned up for a public debate on health organized by has identified resource wastage as one of the biggest constraints of the improvement of the health sector in the country.

PDP President Dr. Abed Bwanika wants to see more efforts to fight biting poverty in Uganda

The three political parties, the Uganda People’s Congress, the People’s Development Party and the Uganda Federal Alliance that turned up for the debate to give their policy proposals to matters concerning health identified resource wastage as one biggest constraint to the sector.

The President of the People’s Development Party, Abed Bwanika has said that Uganda wastes a lot of funds through corruption which would have been helpful in transforming the health sector.

He says if only Uganda managed to fight corruption which has been the cause of this resource wastage, then the health sector would be in better shape than it is now.

The President of the Uganda Federal Alliance, Betty Kamya has on the other hand suggested other than the government spending so much on its many ministers and officials, it should rather spend on important sectors of the economy like health.

In a country where most sectors of the economy are still crippled about 950 million dollars are lost by the government every year in corruption related scandals.

By Zakaria Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media

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