The Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Norbert Mao has advised the government to create a platform tailored to reconcile a country that is a hypocrisy where everyone is pretending to do something.
Mao told an audience that witnessed the launch of the Building Synergies-Uganda (BSU) think-tank last Friday that dialogue facilitated by a reconciliation commission can put the country “on a better footing.
Minister Mao, who is also the leader of the country’s oldest political party, the Democratic Party (DP), urged Ugandans to look past tribal labels.
Ms Beatrice Kiraso, the interim chairperson of Building Synergies Uganda, said Uganda finds itself at the crossroads, with its citizens “having no interest in what’s going on.”
The think-tank she oversees intends to change the conversation by deepening and widening evidence-based engagements on democratic governance, socioeconomic transformation and holistic human progress.
Francis Mwijukye, the Buhweju County MP, advised stakeholders in the country not to put the proverbial cart ahead of the horse.
Alice Alaso, the secretary general of Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), advised the government not to treat political parties like enemies of the State.
Primus Atukwase Bahiigi, the country director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, said the time has come for Ugandans to embrace home-grown solutions to the problems they face.
