UPC Calls For Unity A Head Of Independence
RITAH
Uganda People's Congress has expressed concern over how the government is handling the question of transition of power. This concern comes at a time when Uganda is set to celebrate her 61st independence under the theme of sustaining a united and progressive nation: taking charge of our future as a free nation.
Sharon Oyat the UPC spokesperson called for unity if Uganda is to achieve the purpose of this year’s theme.
On Monday Uganda will be celebrating her 61st independence from colonial rule. Despite celebrating the 61-year-old’s escape from colonial rule, Sharon Arach Oyat the Uganda People’s Congress spokesperson a party that ushered in Uganda’s independence stresses that Uganda hasn’t yet achieved a full state of a free nation.
This year’s celebrations will be guided under the theme, Sustaining a United and Progressive Nation, Taking Charge of our Future as a Free Nation. Uganda People’s Congress has expressed concern over the handling and implementation of this regarding the question of transition.
Arach also says after 61 years Uganda is still struggling to achieve the status of a free nation. She however expressed the need to embrace unity as a major tool on which decolonization was anchored.
Uganda gained its independence on October 9th, 1962. Since 1894 she was a British protectorate that was put together from some very organized kingdoms and chieftaincies that inhabited the lake regions of central Africa.
