#JBMuwonge #bobiwine This week, we received an invitation for a meeting with the Police regarding the 'activities' of our School of Leadership. Our team will be there to interact with them. We hope this is not another attempt to illegally block and frustrate our activities!
All political parties in Uganda have always undertaken training of their leaders and members and we have not seen the police pick similar interest in their activities! The NRM has been having what they call ideology clinics. The FDC recently launched a Leadership academy. Other parties have always undertaken training including ourselves. We have been training our leaders ever since we started- except that now, our School of Leadership has centralized these trainings.
At our school, we do not and have not purported to offer accredited programs leading to awards of academic qualifications. Those who attend the training will only get certificates of attendance. Our trainings focus on the values, principles and objectives of our Party - largely facilitated by various leaders of the Party.
In any case, it should not be the business of Uganda Police - to regulate lawful, internal activities of political parties, such as our school of leadership. The stated mandate of the Training and Human Resources department of Uganda Police is to ‘establish appropriate human resource policies that enhance the performance of the Uganda Police Force.’ Since we are not training police officers, we do not understand that department’s role in purporting to regulate activities of political parties!
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