By Buyinza Adam Luzindana

Kampala: If u look at the Office of the National Chairman (ONC), it doesn’t exist because of Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni the NRM National Chairman.

That ONC has more powers than NRM mobilizers think. This is Statecraft. Not every NRM Mobiliser has the capacity to comprehend but I will simplify it.

ONC derives its powers from Gen. Museveni the Head of State and commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. This means that ONC is doing special Assignments for the President and it is facilitated not by money from NRM but from the State and the Head of State.

ONC is not answerable to the Electoral Commission neither does it operate within the Framework of the Political Parties and Organizations Act. ONC is directly under the Head of State, Gen Museveni.

That is why I pity people fighting those ONC Guys.

ONC has no link to the NRM Party.

NRM Constitution doesn’t provide for the establishment of the Office of the NRM National Chairman as a separate office but the Head of State and the President of Uganda have all powers to establish an office to coordinate the work of the Chairman of NRM. These are complex issues that an ordinary NRM Mobiliser can’t understand.

Lastly and I want to guide you, ONC is beyond NRM. It is more of a deep state initiative working directly under the president of Uganda who is the head of state.

The president can assign ONC people to do anything. Whatever ONC does doesn’t affect NRM Party structures and NRM secretariat and its work can’t be included in the NRM Party report.

ONC can’t take away the mandate of the NRM Secretariat for example, the NRM Secretariat retains all powers to organize Party Elections at all levels and this will always be.

NRM secretariat has all powers on the management and coordination of lower Party offices and structures.ONC can’t do the above two but it can do targeted and community-based mobilization on guidance of the Head of State.

This means ONC is a special-purpose vehicle for the commander-in-chief, the head of state, and the president of Uganda. For example, the National Treasurer of NRM doesn’t know how ONC is facilitated and can’t ask for an ONC Expenditure report. This is proof that ONC is answerable to the Head of State not to the National Chairman of NRM (This is another topic to be discussed).

NOTE that it’s possible to fight the NRM National Chairman (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni), but it’s complex, and very hard to fight the Head of State who is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and President of Uganda (Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni).

ONC is under the Head of State, President of Uganda, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. The truth is that ONC is not under the NRM Secretariat.

It’s my opinion. You have yours.

Buyinza Adam Luzindana
Subsistence Farmer
Kayunga District