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The Monitor (Kampala)
October 7, 2003
Posted to the web October 7, 2003
Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi
Kampala
The Reform Agenda wants Parliament to make a law for a national dialogue to end wars and chart a way forward to the 2006 general lections.
The group's secretary general, Mr Geofrey Ekanya, said yesterday that government should initiate the dialogue but that Parliament should give it a legal basis and make it binding to all parties.
Ekanya was speaking at the RA's weekly press briefing at the group's office in Kamwokya.
He warned of an "impending catastrophe" unless the government convenes the national dialogue.
"This position was first submitted to government in 2001 and we have continuously reminded President Museveni to take this call or face the consequences of ignoring them," he said.
The group's deputy chairman, Mr Sam Njuba, told journalists at the same briefing that a national dialogue is the only way to peace in the country.
The official scorned reports last week that National Political Commissar Dr. Crispus Kiyonga was in contact with the opposition over such a dialogue. "Kiyonga is not serious; the NRM is not serious," he said.
"We suspect anything [the] Movement does but we are ready to sit with them," he said.
