Traders Worries are more focused on the flow of goods which may face disruption if the election is not concluded peacefully. However legislators sitting on the parliamentary committee of trade have also warned of serious consequences.

Bulamogi  MP Kenneth Lubogo says the fact that Uganda  use the same route in trade since the new route between Ugandan and Dar-es-salaam  is not complete a lot of business are going to be affected. Including Uganda’s tax base.

 Kilak county MP Gilbert Olanya warns of serious implication which include increasing influx of refugees in the country

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Member of Parliament for Nakaseke County North, Hajat Syda Bumba

The Member of Parliament for Nakaseke County North, Hajat Syda Bumba, recently stunned fellow MPs when she told the house that there are a number female MPs being buttered by their husbands over their failure to surrender their monthly earnings.

Bumba made this revelation while contributing to a debate that urged government to come up with stringent measures in protecting girls and women against domestic and sexual violence.

“Infact as we speak, some of our members in this house are being buttered by their husbands because they refuse to give them the money that they earn as MPs. So as we debate this issue, we have silent victims here who fear to disclose but when they are taken to private counseling sessions, you will be shocked on what they will reveal,” Bumba said without elaborating further.

She added that this practice is not only for village women but even those in offices.

Bumba, however, also mentioned that men are also beaten by their wives but for them can easily run away from homes and take refugee with their other mistresses unlike women.

She said that all these problems of violence is caused because the breakdown of family system and some women being desperate for love from their husbands.

Bumba said some communities still have the traditional belief that when a woman is not battered, she is not loved by her husband.

Gilbert Olanya, the Kilak South MP, confirmed with Bumba that indeed some cultures still believe that a woman should be battered as a sign of love from her husband.

“Infact if there husband doesn’t better her in their marriage, she will run away because they think that it’s a sign of love,” Olanya said.

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Odonga Otto the Aruu County MP

Acholi sub region Members of Parliament from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party have threatened to block the Madhvani project of sugar cane growing in the area over using government to secure land.

In 2008 Madhvani applied for a 49 lease to acquire land to grow sugar cane at lakang village, Amur Sub County in Amuru district.

The Madhvani Group has been entangled in decade-long fight over 40,000 hectares of land in Amuru district, with residents accusing the government and local leaders of conniving with the sugar production giant to dispose  them from their land.

However,MPs who among them was the Aruu County, Samuel Odonga Otto, Gulu district Woman MP, Betty Aol and Kilak  County north MP, Gilbert Olanya  told the media at Parliament  that the Madhvani project of sugar growing is good to the area but that they are opposed to the  method is using to secure the land from the community  is unacceptable. Adding that if the people is neglected the project would be insecure.

Otto says that Madhvani should consult the land owners and get their consent instead of relying on government to use forceful methods to acquire land.

He said that if Madhvani fails to engage the local community to secure the land, as the Acholi leaders they will mobilize them to protect their land.

Otto says that Acholi people will be like that of Busoga who surrendered their land to sugar cane investors and got  a row deal and are now facing food shortage and living in absolute poverty.

He says that the minister for lands, Betty Amongi, is being misled by cabinet on acquiring this land without consulting people yet she could have moved slowly on this matter.

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