AUGUSTINE RUZINDANA
After being beaten and pushed out of a meeting in Jinja on or about 5 March 2004, the Ruhama MP wonders: If 50 MPs can not be allowed to talk; if MPs can not speak, who will speak? We are in real trouble, serious trouble. The time when different views could be heard and tolerated is over; what is coming to all of us started in Jinja. You either tow the official line or you suffer.

FOX ODOI
The Principal Private Secretary (ag) to the President, Fox Odoi Oywelowo, said there was no crisis in the wake of the January 29 Supreme Court ruling. Odoi made some remarks reminiscent of 2001's famous bicycle quarter-pin (English: cotter-pin; see picture at bottom of page), a hammer and state power. To wit: The Movement was not created by law and it will not be killed by law.

THE SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court's Thursday 29th Jan, 2004 ruling nullifying the Constitutional (Amendment) Act 13, 2000 is a major boost towards constitutionalism and the rule of law. The coram of judges was led by Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki. The others were Justices Kanyeihamba, Oder, Tsekooko, Karokora, Mulenga and Byamugisha. In his ruling, Odoki said: The Uganda Constitution... cannot be amended easily. Although it is not cast in stone, it is intended to serve not only the present generation, but the generations yet to come.

THE EAST AFRICAN LAW SOCIETY
Launching the inaugural East African Human Rights Report for 2003, the chief executive officer of the East African Law Society, Donald Deya, said debate on the constitutional reform to allow Museveni another term should not be allowed. He said: We urge the President of Uganda not to violate the Constitution in any way to allow himself another term.

CHARLES SNYDER
The acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mr Charles Snyder, (on or about Jan 21, 2004) hosted on Voice of America's television programme, Straight Talk Africa, said of Museveni: We hope he'll take the high road out and leave his country with a functioning democracy as his legacy. He's already left with a good economy, with a great legacy on HIV/Aids and if he can now leave us with that last real pillar of democracy, we'll find him as one of the great African leaders.

JABERI BIDANDI SSALI
President Museveni should retire at the end of his term in 2006. The former local government (and longest-serving) minister opposed proposals to lift the Constitutional two-term limit on the presidency and said there was unanimous approval of the limits during the Constituent Assembly that wrote the 1995 Constitution. In fact, he was sacked over the "sad term" issue.

MUGISHA MUNTU
Former army commander, who is also one of Uganda's representatives to the East African Parliament, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu says that Museveni's time is due to run-out in 2006. He is asking the president to go.

PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI
Movement single-vision god, Mr Yoweri Museveni wrote: This is "sad"! Nevertheless, the Movement, I am sure, will, at the appropriate moment, deal with this error on Mr Kategaya's part and that of others that have been following the same path.(Monitor, Dec 28. The word sad appeared three times in his statement.)

GODFREY BINAISA
President Museveni is a tired man and should quit in 2006. The former president said: He is a big man. I mean he fought for the common man, now it is 17 years. But I think now he is exhausted, my advice to him is to step down in 2006. That was on BBC's African Perspectives programme (Dec. 2003).

ERIYA KATEGAYA
I have the circumstantial evidence that Museveni is behind the third term. He chaired the Cabinet meeting that endorsed the third term. Kategaya, a former first deputy prime minister, was dropped in a Cabinet reshuffle. He is a strong critic of Museveni's attempts to amend the Constitution to remove term limits on the presidency.

AMANYA MUSHEGA
Major Amanya Mushega, a Movement guru and former cabinet minister but now Secretary General of the East African Community, warned resident district commissioners (RDCs) against blocking leaders with dissenting views from addressing people. Says he: Let people talk and let people judge what they say but do not allow other people to talk and gag others.

DAVID PULKOL
Stop harrassing innocent people. The police is using too much force while breaking up civilian meetings (discussing Uganda's political future). Let them speak freely. Pulkol, the former top dog of the External Security Organisation was sacked a few days after a certain cabinet minister promised him due punishment over his remarks.

EMMANUEL CARDINAL
His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala said that the Constitution of Uganda should not be amended to remove the two presidential term limits because this would breed dictatorship and stifle leadership development.

CRISPUS KIYONGA
On or about 22 August 2003, the National Political Commissar openly declared that the recommendations of the Commission led by Prof. Fredrick Ssempebwa could be vetoed by the Cabinet if they are found to be inconsistent with the Cabinet's own findings.