For the EASF, the immediate challenge is turning political commitments into practical capacity. Its leadership wants the force to move beyond being a regional arrangement on paper and become a properly funded, politically supported and operationally ready mechanism capable of responding when crises emerge.
The proposal has sparked concern among Kampala property owners, who fear that moving government offices could leave commercial buildings without tenants and weaken the city’s economy.
PFF thinks that regional meetings will be a game changer after all other means, such as the collection of a million signatures, did not deliver as expected. However, political analysts have revealed that the new touch of regional meetings is headed to fail because of the weak party structures.
“Prisons Service has been infiltrated by the military,because for us who have been been in Prison, we know why prisons officers operate and handle issues. What we saw at the court was just military in the prisons uniform. Why would a prisons officer be that bitter and angry against us accessing our sick leader?” Lulume asked.
“We demand that the Executive Director of the Uganda Communication Commission should resign or cause a crisis meeting in government to ensure that the power that has been taken away from him is reinstated so that he can do his work without interference from the army,” Lulume said.