Appearing before the legal and Parliamentary affairs committee of Parliament, Peter Nyombi the attorney general says there is a lacuna in the existing laws of the land that the bill seeks to fill.

The minister of state for internal affairs James Baba in his submission underscores the fact that the demonstrators have changed the manner in which they conduct their demonstrations requiring for a law to protect other people not interested in demonstrations.

The Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura has appealed to the committee to pass the bill into an act saying the Police have become a punching bag of the Politicians who have failed to iron out their differences, with the spills falling into the hands of the Police.

The deputy chairperson of the committee Bakka Stephen Mugabi has tasked the Inspector General of Police, the Attorney General and the minister of internal affairs to explain why they are insisting on a bill that was not consultative in development, subsequently being rejected by all stake holders.

The committee members seem to agree with the need for a legislation to regulate public gatherings following a series of peacefully turned riotous gatherings although they don’t agree with the bill in its present state.

A number of other stakeholders who have appeared before the committee on the same issue have warned Parliament against passing such a bill as it may turn out a recipe for disaster.

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Appearing before the public accounts committee (Pac) chaired by Maxwell Akora (Maruzi), Karuhanga who even shed tears before the committee as she tried to defend herself on the controversial payment named west budama MP Fox Odoi, judge Ralph Ocan (Masindi resident judge) and Charles Twagira.

The committee had to adjourn several times as Karuhanga wept in a testimony she gave to the committee where she denied having signed a consent judgment in which the court award to the company was done.

Molly together with bosses of NFA led by acting executive director Onyango had appeared before Pac to explain circumstances under which a local company Beachside Development Ltd ‘conned’ NFA of US$1.9m (close to shs5bn) in compensation of a botched forest deal in Entebbe.

The committee heard that this company owned by MP Fox Odoi, Judge Ralph Ocan and Charles Twagira took NFA to court accusing it of breach of contract and demanded for US$8.6m for damages from NFA after it cancelled the deal.

This company it emerged through Twagira in September 2005 approached NFA seeking for a 50-year lease offer to manage and also set up an eco-tourism center (beach) on the 209 hectare forest located at Kwewaga-Entebbe.

However, after several correspondences and dealings relating to this transaction between NFA and the company, NFA terminated the project and it was dragged to court.

The committee however, discovered that much as Twagira Charles in his own capacity is the one who approached NFA in September 2005 seeking for this deal, when time for compensation came, the Beachside showed up.

The committee is continuing to investigate the matter.

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