The Democratic Party Press Release

Press Release.

D.P wants Education to be accessible and available to all Ugandan:

Kampala 31st January, 2012. The Democratic Party is appalled that the teachers’ plight continues unattended to. The teachers’ salary is too meager to talk about, yet when they demanded an increment of 100 per cent which would make their salary come to a token of Shs50,000, they were rubbished. This amount is not even enough for subsistence for a family of four. Yet teachers have spouses, children and dependents including their siblings and their elderly parents. Shamelessly, the government has blatantly refused to grant that modest request and they have promised teachers a 15 per cent increment which would translate into a mere Shs35,000. This money is not worth one meal for one of the ruling party politicians’ family. The Democratic Party Condemns this grave injustice meted out onto the teachers by an insensitive regime.
We have learnt that Universal Primary and Secondary Education are hot air. The government remits a paltry Shs1521 for each pupil under UPE, per term and we have got incontrovertible reports that some times the government remits far less than that amount. As for USE, a token Shs41,000 is remitted. This is utterly absurd. The poor parents are heavily burdened yet we are deluded that we have universal education.
University education has been rendered almost inaccessible to the brilliant sons and daughters of the poor. To make matters worse, state house sponsored scholarships which are funded by taxpayers’ money are a preserve of a few politically connected. We must condemn this patronage-clientelism method of running the state. As DP we want university education to be available, accessible and affordable to all on the basis of merit.

Ugandan is dying of curable and complex diseases:

The Democratic Party is concerned that quite a number of people are dying because of power outages in hospitals, the children in northern Uganda are nodding to death; very many Ugandans in the whole country are dying of curable and complex diseases such as diabetes, cancer, kidney failures and so many yet the greedy ruling party cadres pilfer funds that would be adequate to treat these diseases daily with impunity. We in the Democratic Party condemns this practice and we pledge to fight for justice for all Ugandans

Uganda should respect and observe treaties:

The Democratic Party has filed a suit against the Attorney General of Uganda and 3 other East-African states in regard to the failure by state parties to the African Charter on Human and People’s rights failure to deposit a Special Declaration submitting to the Competence of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights to handle individual cases by Partner States Nationals and Rights NGOs with grievances to access this court as required by the above law. This is a violation of Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and Article 34(6) of the Protocol of the Charter that establishes the African Court on Human and People’s Rights but also infringes the Principle of Pacta Sunt Servanda enshrined in article 26 of the1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of treaties which mandates states to respect and observe treaties once signed and ratified. Of all the five East African countries, it is only Tanzania that has deposited the special declaration to the African Court of Human and People’s Rights. We in the Democratic Party believe that failure to honor the African Court on Human and People’s Rights is not only aimed at violating People’s rights but also promoting impunity. We condemn this in the strongest terms a reason as to why we pray the East African Court of Justice to declare the actions of the Respondent states illegal.

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Hon. Mathias B Nsubuga
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