ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with three main themes: the Odoki Commission recommendations on decentralisation; the promulgation of the 1995 Constitution; and the establishment of the local government institutions. It addresses he relationship between the abuse of central governmental political power, the proliferation of districts, the recentralisation of Kampala City and the tepid establishment of Regional Governments as a means of undermining the institutional integrity of local governments. The Preamble to the 1995 Constitution of Uganda provides for a durable constitutional order, outlining in essence the essential features of a constitutional state. The 1995 Constitution is one of the few in common law countries that bestows on every citizen a right as well as the obligation to resist any form of unconstitutional usurpation of political power. In 1995 a new Constitution was promulgated, replacing the unitary Constitution of 1967. The Preamble to the 1995 Constitution of Uganda provides for a durable constitutional order, outlining in essence the essential features of a constitutional state.
