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Retired Gen David Sejusa is pushing to change the Constitution so the president-elect gets sworn in within one week of results being declared. He says the current long gap, like January to May after elections, creates an “absentee government” where nobody seems in charge.
He pointed to the recent Katwe Market fire in Kampala on March 17, where Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi visited victims first, while no ministers, MPs, mayor, or KCCA officials had shown up yet. Sejusa argued that outgoing leaders are still there but disengaged, perhaps bitter from losses, while new ones wait months to take office and ministers wonder if they keep their jobs.
He reminded everyone he opposed this long transition back in the Constituent Assembly days, when late Kanyeihamba and others pushed for it, copying American style. Now he calls five months of vacuum a total waste. For ordinary citizens, it makes sense: after voting, people want to see action fast, not a limbo period where fires burn, roads stay broken, and nobody responds.
Sejusa’s history of blunt talk, from succession claims to poisoning fears, adds weight but also controversy to his ideas. Whether it gains traction is another story, but the proposal highlights real frustrations with slow handovers that leave governance feeling stalled.
