The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leaders have urged their members and supporters to continue to exhibit the spirit of unity as a reward to the departed chairperson of the FDC party elders committee,Frank Nabwiso.
The former Kagoma County MP, Frank Nabwiso, passed away aged 84 on Saturday, December 14, 2024, at Mukono Hospital, where he had been receiving special treatment for over a month.
According to the FDC vice chairperson and former member of parliament for Kasese municipality, Robert Centenary, party members should avoid bad energy within the party because Nabwiso asserted himself so much on unity and reconciliation.
“Our appeal to all members of the FDC is to maintain the values of unity and reconciliation. During his prime days, Dr Nabwiso kept preaching love, unity, and reconciliation,” Centenary said.
While paying tribute to the fallen Nabwiso at the FDC party headquarters in Najjanankumbi on Monday, December 16, 2024, FDC party President Patrick Amuriat Oboi said party members should make sure that those who have long mismanaged the nation are stopped as they come together to honor Nabwiso’s life.
“We want to make a commitment before the country and all of you that the FDC will not spare any energy in doing so,” Amuriat said.
The FDC party Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi praised the noble character of the Nabwiso, who was intelligent, joyous, and an encyclopedia of the history of the FDC party.
Throughout his illustrious career, Nabwiso served Uganda with distinction, holding various prominent positions, including Executive Director of the Uganda Export Promotion Council, Director of the AIDS Information Center (AIC), and former Vice Chancellor of Busoga University.
At the same event the party launched two policies, including a policy against sexual harassment and a gender policy to create a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for everyone.
According to Agnes Kisakye, the Chairperson of the FDC Women League, the policies lay the foundation for achieving gender equality, equity, and inclusion within the FDC party.
“These policies are a testament to the FDC’s commitment to justice, democracy, and the empowerment of all marginalized groups as enshrined in both the party constitution and the national and international frameworks to which Uganda is a signatory,” she said.
While launching the two policies on Monday, December 16, 2024, at the FDC party headquarters at Najjanankumbi, Kisakye highlighted the core objectives of the policies, including increasing knowledge and understanding of gender issues among the party leaders, members, and officials.
Others highlighted include institutionalizing gender-responsive planning and budgeting, programming, monitoring, evaluation, and gender audit; promoting gender balance in FDC leadership and staffing; and mainstreaming gender in research and contrast of partners.
According to the FDC party President, Partrick Oboi Amuriat, the launch of the gender policy reassures the women who would wish to join the party of safety, democracy, and inclusion of all persons in the party activities.
“What we are doing as FDC today is to reassure the public and those who may have hesitated to join this party and participate in the leadership that FDC is now secure for your wife and husband. Your wife is going to come to us and not go back home with the unwanted pregnancy,” he said.
He, however, explained that the major root cause of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is poverty, stating that there is a lot of stress in homes because husbands are poor enough to provide for their families.
“Gender-Based Violence is not coming by itself. There is a root cause of it, and the first that we can clearly see and we have experienced in our families and communities is poverty,” Amuriat added.
The Deputy Secretary for Mobilization (Buganda region), Olive Nassuna, said that the policy aims to protect women’s rights against gender-based violence in all spheres of life, adding that they will continue to work within the parameters of the policies to pioneer advocacy for women’s human rights against sexual harassment.
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