There were reports that the Court ruling that saw over 75 MPs thrown out of the 8^th Parliament for crossing to other political parties under article 83 0f the Constitution might affect new Ministers who have been appointed as Ministers but on Independent ticket in Parliament.

But Tashobya, who is also the MP for Kajara County in Ntungamo District says the Ministers who are Cabinet but do not hold NRM ticket will be allowed to sign a memorandum of understanding and can be incorporated in the party as members.

Tashobya in an Interview with Journalists at Parliament revealed that article 83 of the Constitutional of Uganda does not bar any Independent MP from exercising his/her right with a political party provided one does not publicly declare that he has crossed.

He said that the new Ministers can perform their duties diligently following the Constitution.

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Kibanda MP Amooti Otada Owor

The group is chaired by Kibanda County MP Sam Otada with Tororo municipality MP Sanja Tana as his deputy. The Mpigi woman MP Mariam Nalubega is the secretary while Budama West North MP Fox Odoi has been appointed as their legal adviser.

Tana says the independents formed their own concuss to avoid scenarios similar to those of last parliament in which 70 MPs were thrown out of the house for joining different political parties.

It also emerged that a number of independents were recently thrown out of the Bus taking NRM MPs to a caucus meeting with the president in Entebbe.

Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has designatedmiddle raw on her left hand side of the house for the independents to sit.

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