Is the name chakamchaka or kakamukake? If it's the former, what does it mean? Helps to know what it's really about.

Nze ndowooza kitegeeza nti musibe amalaka, bwagaana musambe tteke, era bwasigala akyagugubye muyiseeko owembuya ,muwewenyule emigoba nte egifikkawo ogikube ettaka. Ekyebuzibwa nti omuntu oyo baba bagenda kumutraininga na butida? kati olwo naye bwagibakyusiza mpozzi nga banakola akakodyo kekamu kebakola ngaluli abantu kkumi ku kibundu ekikadde kimu .Ekyo Bote kyeyakola natwaala abaganda okkola akasanvu okulima mu bikajjo e Tanzania nabo tebaali babi nga babisaako muliro ngabibengeya ko abe Tanzania nti mutwamuke

Moses Mulondo

Kampala



THE Democratic Party has vowed to decampaign chakamchaka (military training), arguing it would cause increased bloodshed in the country.



"Training all Ugandans how to shoot means we shall be engaging in killing each other in civil wars. We shall not condone that barbaric thinking that the gun is the beginning and end of peace and freedom," said John Ssebaana Kizito, the DP president.





During the party's weekly press conference yesterday, he stressed the importance of government coming up with long lasting plans that would unite Ugandans and avert all possibilities of civil wars.



"The world over, violence has never been a practical method for ensuring peace and freedom. Rather, it is brain power and democracy, based on truth and justice, that can bring meaningful peace and freedom," the former presidential aspirant said.



Ssebaana said military training should be for only people who want to join but not force be forced on people who are not interested in it.



The former mayor of Kampala also condemned the Government for the recent sale of the National Housing Cooperation (NHC) to Libyans.



"The country has lost over $16m in that transaction. We wonder whether by the time this government gets out of power there will be any public property left unsold," Ssebaana said.



He said agreed to request the DP legislators to introduce a motion demanding parliament to establish a commission of inquiry on the privatisation policy.



"Ugandans want to know how much money has been realised from selling state enterprises and other public property. We want to know who bought, at how much, and what the money has done," he appealed.



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Ssebaana revealed that in 1998, when the privatisation policy was being introduced, it had been agreed that the minister in charge would brief Parliament about the transactions every six months.



"But unfortunately this has never been done at any one moment. Everything has been done in darkness," Ssebaana said.



"The policy had been created to sell only non-profit- making ventures, he argued, but the Government went ahead and sold off companies like UCB and now the NHC.