The member of parliament representing Lwemiyaga county Theodore Ssekikubo has attacked the electoral commission for locking out his bid for deputy speakership in the 10th parliament. According to the NRM road map for speakership primaries only gazzeted NRM members are eligible to vie or vote in these primaries which puts Ssekikubo in a tricky position to […]
The NRM electoral commission has set May 5th as a date on which NRM caucus MP-elects are going to select their candidate for speakership and deputy. This comes after, according to sources, NRM CEC sitting last night at Entebbe failed to come out with a sole candidate for speakership between Rebecca Kadaga and Jacob Oulanyah who […]
MPs from Buganda are sharply divided on whom to back between speaker Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy Jacob Oulanyah for speakership. Whereas last week a group of 25 MPs nationwide led by Buganda caucus chairperson Godfrey Kiwanda came out backing Oulanyah, this morning another group specifically from Buganda led by Benny Bugembe [Mubende woman] addressed scribes […]
The deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah’s team seeking for his election for the 10th parliament speakership 2016-21 has been unveiled. The taskforce is headed by the chairperson Buganda parliamentary group and also the member of parliament for Mityana north Godfrey Kiwanda. A-team of 23 members of parliament was announced by its chairperson Godfrey Kiwanda Suubi at Serena hotel […]
The secretary general of DP also Bukoto south MP Matia Nsubuga Birekerawo says although the opposition has not met to decide on whom to support on the position of the speaker for the 10th parliament, his party will support the current speaker Rebecca Kadaga.Birekerawo’s statement comes at the time when the NRM party chairman president Yoweri Museveni asked the […]
The NRM party chairman president Museveni has asked NRM members who are in the retreat at Kyankwanzi leadership institute to stop campaigns for the post of the speaker and the deputy speaker of parliament. Sources from Kyankwanzi reveal that members especially the old ones had seriously started campaigns to convince the new ones vote for current speaker Kadaga, others for Sam […]
The opposition chief whip Cecilia Ogwal surprisingly campaigns for the speaker Rebecca Kadaga to retain her seat as the 10th parliament speaker. In parliament’s proceedings which were attended by only three opposition MPs, Ogwal while reading the opposition statement over the concluded women’s days where she criticized NRM for turning this day into a party day, […]
The speaker of parliament asked the group of people who opposed her decision of retaining the four MPs in parliament who had been expelled by the NRM party to apologize. This follows the recent Supreme Court ruling that Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga was constitutional when she refused to expel the rebel National Resistance Movement MPs […]
Debate on the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill, 2014 hit a dead-end after Members of Parliament failed to distinguish the Pension Act they were amending. After being stuck at the bill’s committee stage, not knowing whether they were amending the pension Act 2007 or pension Act 2011, among other issues. The Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, deferred the Parliamentary Pension scheme bill […]
Over 50 state house sponsored students from Gulu University have stormed parliament seeking its intervention over delayed release of their tuition. The group of students claims that for the last two years, they have not received money towards their tuition and upkeep. They say they are likely to miss exams if the said outstanding fees […]