By Oweyegha-Afunaduu
The plan to reduce the number of constituencies and Ministers should not be as the plan that raised the number of Ministers from less than 12 in 1962 to the present 82 and the number of Members of Parliament from about 80 in 1962 to the current 529.
I have learned that the plan is to reduce the number of MPs to 260 and the number of Ministers to 21 after so much financial haemorrhage of the country politically.
Well-known journalist, Andrew Mwenda, once wrote that whatever President Tibuhaburwa Museveni thinks, conceives or does has political intent.
And since everything in Uganda is presidentially initiated or determined, we need to ask: Why reduce Ministers and MPs now? Is it new wisdom borne out of 40 uninterrupted one-man, rule of Uganda by the President or is the new phenomenon of Trump that will no longer waste money on what he called shithole countries or is it 2026?
If reducing the number of MPs is to be done it should be done equitably and justly without the political consideration of power retention.
Currently there are far more districts, counties, constituencies and Ministers from the Western Region than from any other region of Uganda.
It should not be to reduce number of constituencies excessively in the areas considered to be strongholds of the Opposition. That would be rigging elections, leadership and governance of Uganda in favour of NRM and our incumbent President.
The formula of reducing Ministers and MPs must be convincing and well-documented so that future generations will know how we did things whenever we acquired new superior wisdoms. Possibly The Parliament of Uganda will come out with the formula after legislating it into existence.
The key words should be Political Equity and Political Justice.
For God and My Countr
