Parliament fails to sit due to absence of speakers
- Written by URN
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga with President Museveni at his farm
On Wednesday, Kadaga adjourned a plenary to Thursday to discuss the contentious issue of the Jinja express highway. However, there was no sitting on Thursday as both speakers were absent. Parliament's acting director of communications Hellen Kaweesa said that the deputy speaker is in Kigali, Rwanda attending the African, Caribbean and Pacific-European Union conference while the speaker had a state function which she had not anticipated would take long.
The opposition chief whip Ibrahim Semujju Nganda called for the establishment of a panel of speakers so that the house doesn't fail to sit because of the absence of one or two speakers. He says the action of the speakers is an indication of indiscipline.
"It is not the number of speakers that is going to solve the problems in parliament, it is the discipline. Even if you have 20 speakers who are going to adjourn parliament when it is already inside or who are going call MPs and they tell you today there is not sitting, that will change nothing," said Ssemujju.
According to Semujju, it is unprecedented for parliament not to sit because the speakers are absent.
Comments
She can comfortably prioritize a foreign engagement ahead of the domestic business of Parliament!
Ugandans need a new breed of leaders for whom national interest and duty take precedence ahead of personal comfort and privileges!
They are working on their own terms of reference as the tax payer continues to pay up their high wages.
No one else is going to tell them what to do and how to do it. As parliament is a talking shop, MP Ssemujju can say all he wants to say.
China is now complaining as Zimbabwe refuses to recognize financially the long term efforts China has been putting in this country, as Zimbabwe reads out its annual budgets!
As Akot says, Ugandans have no reasons to vote in mps again, right?