Providing Security for All

Over the last 20 years, the Government of President Yoweri Museveni has failed to bring peace to many parts of the country. This is despite the claims of "the peace ushered in by the NRM", or that "at least we sleep". The Government has also failed to truly institutionalize the rule of law in the country and respect for human rights. In Northern and North Eastern Uganda for example, hundreds of thousands of lives as well as property have been lost, and nearly two million Ugandans continue to endure inhuman conditions in the appalling Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. The number one duty of a good government is to protect the lives of citizens and their properties, and promote human rights and freedoms.

FDC will resolve all conflicts through peaceful means. FDC will pursue peace-building initiatives and establish the culture of reconciliation, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Where discord now exists, we shall re-establish a secure environment where all Ugandans live in peace, and where all are equal before the law, as preconditions for sustainable national development.

• FDC will rapidly bring to a speedy end, through dialogue and negotiations, the LRA conflict in Northern Uganda and cattle rustling within Karamoja and across the neighboring districts.



• Within the first six months of the FDC government, we shall establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to reconcile the country and bring all internal conflicts to quick and permanent end.




• FDC will ensure that within one year in government all people now displaced by conflicts will be able to return to their homes and live normal lives again.



• In the special case of Karamoja, FDC will implement a disarmament and disengagement programme internally, and regionally in collaboration with the Sudan and Kenya.



• FDC government will institute rigorous controls on cattle rustling and increase investments in food security and livestock health in the area.



• For all conflict areas, FDC will implement special programmes to resettle, reintegrate and rehabilitate the population affected by conflicts.



• For all conflict areas, FDC will implement special programmes to resettle, reintegrate and rehabilitate the population affected by conflicts.

• FDC Government will ensure that state institutions like the Defense Forces, Police, Prisons and other Security Agencies are patriotic, non-partisan, and play their roles as protectors of democracy, peace and stability.



• FDC will build strong, well-trained and professional Defense Forces, Police, Prisons Services and other security agencies, that will enjoy the same dignity, public respect and independence as those of other modern states.



• FDC will reverse and completely eliminate all hitherto made to make UPDF and other security agencies partisan and personalized forces. We will also end the misuse of the security agencies to terrorize opposition politicians and ordinary Ugandans.



• FDC will quickly tackle and banish all forms of corruption from the Armed Forces and other security agencies. In particular we shall urgently eliminate the "ghost soldiers" and "ghost police" phenomena. We will also immediately end politically motivated purges and fast-track promotions based on ethnicity or personal loyalties.



• FDC will build a strong, well paid, civil Police Force and Prisons Service. We will start the recruitment of 10,000 Police and 4000 Prisons personnel as a matter of urgency, and implement rigorous training programmes for all members of the forces. This will include improved facilities.



• FDC will put in place regulations and mechanisms to ensure that all promotions and appointments are strictly non-sectarian, based upon merit, and adequately recognize outstanding performances of individual officers. There will be no 'Katebe' under an FDC Government.



• FDC government will improve the appalling housing conditions of the UPDF, Police, and Prisons Service, and eliminate 'mama ingia pole' housing.



• FDC will rehabilitate and expand infrastructure and establish humane conditions in all prisons and detention facilities.