Members of parliament on Wednesday asked the Vice President Edward Ssekandi Kiwanuka to explain his recent actions in stopping the police from assisting Kampala Capital City Authority from enforcing the demolition of one of the buildings being constructed on part of a road reserve in Kampala.

The MPs sitting on the Presidential Affairs Committee also resolved that they write to the inspector general of police Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura, directing him that he ensures the Force backs KCCA in its efforts to tear down this incomplete structure on Plot 42, Nile Avenue, opposite Garden City and Nakumatt Oasis shopping malls.

The chairperson of the committee Barnabas Tinkasimire says that Lt. Gen. Kayihura, who the same MPs also met today, must ensure that the building is put down.

The executive director of KCCA, Jenifer Musisi says that the building in question was registered by the defunct Kampala City Council under the names of Foton East Africa; a Chinese firm and it was only permitted to put up a semi-permanent motor vehicle showroom.

Tinkasimire says that his committee has also learnt that Ssekandi and President Museveni’s younger brother, only known as Toyota are behind the Chinese investors who are constructing the structure in the road reserve.

Mr. Toyota says that he is an employee of the company but he denied reports that he personally supervises the construction of the building with armed officers. Ms Musisi says that KCCA revoked the permit because the people constructing the building were in breach of one of the conditions which was to the effect that the front setback along Nile Avenue and Kitante Road should be a minimum of 15 metres from the road reserve.

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Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto

Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto yesterday filed a petition before the Attorney General’s office, seeking to call for 17 independent MPs to be thrown out of Parliament.

The MPs’ woes stem from their attendance of a retreat of NRM MPs at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi over two weeks ago.

Speaking to journalists at Parliament, Otto contended that the legislators breached the contract with their voters by being involved in party activities yet they were sent to Parliament on no political party card.

The independent MPs recently attended the caucus called by the NRM leadership to discuss several issues, among them the special oil debate.

Speaking to the media at Parliament, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi dismissed the claims that the independent MPs had been influenced to change their decisions made during the special oil debate, calling for the resignation of three ministers implicated in alleged corruption deals in the sector.

Mbabazi says the retreat was open to all and not the NRM party since several speakers made meaningful presentations on different issues.

Last year, 70 MPs, among them 8 ministers, lost their seats after the constitutional court ruled that the MPs vacate their seats for choosing to join other parties different from those to which they were elected to parliament.

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