Thirty NRM legislators are eligible to attend the party’s delegates’ conference since they still hold the party card.
The ruling party Secretary General Hon. Justine Kasule Lumumba a few days ago said that 30 members who voted against the party’s decision to support Age Limit will not be allowed to be part of the conference, a highest organ of the NRM.
The Delegates’ Conference is slated for January 25 at Namboole Stadium. Among others, the role of this conference is to choose the Party’s Presidential Candidate.
Oscar John Kihika, a lawyer of the party in a letter dated January 15, advised Lumumba that she has no powers to stop the said legislators.
“Re: Blocking Of NRM MPs from attending the upcoming national conference,” part of the letter reads.
He adds: “It has come to my notice via press reports that there is a proposal to block some 30 NRM members of Parliament from attending the National Conference which is slated to convene on the 25. of January 2020.
As you are well aware, the 30 NRM Members of Parliament were entitled to attend the upcoming National Conference by virtue of Article 11(2) (j) of the NRM Constitution which lists them as members of the National Conference.
To the best of my knowledge, these MPs have thus far not been dismissed from the NRM.”
He suggests that the said MPs should be allowed to attend the National Conference.
“Arrangements should therefore be made to ensure that they attend the National Conference just like all other members who were invited by virtue of the Notice of the National Conference that was published in the New Vision News Paper some time in December of 2019,” the letter concludes.
