The ministry of gender, labor and social development has appealed to the finance ministry to avail funds to enable election of workers’ members of parliament. The sector’s minister Muruli Mukasa, says that the ministry has no money to hold these elections yet their efforts to seek finance’s intervention have also hit a snag because the finance ministry says there is no money.
This comes after the workers MP Arinaitwe Rwakajara raised the matter during the parliamentary sitting chaired by Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga. Mululi told parliament chaired by speaker Rebecca Kadaga that there is going to be a crisis in parliament come May this year if one segment of members are not elected so as to have a fully constituted parliament. He says the deadline for completion of all elections ends on March 12 but the ministry hopes that if this money is availed to it, the workers representatives will also be elected by March 11.
Rwakajara says it’s a shaming that government can no find out money for workers’ elections.