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{UAH} Wolokoso: UPDF MP fails to recognize colleague

Wolokoso: UPDF MP fails to recognize colleague
  • Written by Observer Media Ltd

The 10th Parliament opened in May last year with a total of 427 legislators.

Several journalists scratched their heads, wondering whether they would master the names of all the MPs. But it was not the media alone who were trying to make sense of the numbers madness.

Fellow MPs seem not to know each other and a case in point is Lt Col Flavia Byekwaso, a representative from UPDF.

During a workshop organized by the Parliamentary Forum on Social Protection at Imperial Royale hotel recently to discuss the grants for elderly persons, Bukedea county MP, John Bosco Ikojo, arrived rather late and walked straight to a seat next to Byekwaso.

When he tried to sit, Byekwaso, who was in full combat uniform, stopped him, telling him that the chair was reserved for an MP. It took the intervention of Richard Gafabusa, the Bwamba MP, to convince Byekwaso that Ikojo is indeed an MP.

Probably, Ikojo's casual dress code made Byekwaso mistake him for a stranger.

Do cows abort?

Ordinarily, abortion is deliberate termination of a pregnancy.

However, the House was last Tuesday left confused if cows also abort after the Amudat Woman MP complained to the minister of Agriculture, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, over the Operation Wealth Creation programme.

"Hon Minister, I am disturbed. You find that even after artificial insemination of the OWC cows, those cows abort. The insemination that OWC supplied didn't work and, in the end, the cows ended up aborting. I need some clarification, Hon Minister," said Rosemary Nauwat.

The House went silent for a while and later MPs started murmuring about the possibilities of cows aborting.

Some MPs were seen consulting after adjournment of the House. "Hon, but can cows abort? Or it's veterinary jargon?" One MP asked a colleague who also replied: "I am not sure, I have also been wondering about the same." The answer as to whether cows also abort remains a puzzle.

When MP Katali scared colleagues over her legs

Last Wednesday was a bad day for a female MP from western Uganda. As a female colleague, she may have thought that Loy Katali, the Jinja Woman MP, would not feel offended by a compliment about her spotless, smooth and light-skinned legs.

So, when this MP met Katali, she innocently said: "Eeh Honourable, what happened to your legs?" To her surprise, Katali rudely shot back: "What?" Scared by the tone of her colleague, the MP remained speechless for about five minutes but Katali kept staring at her with wide eyes.

The woman MP then said: "Honourable, you are smart!"  Katali just turned her back and left without saying a word. However, it's not only that female MP who saw the change in Katali's legs and now colleagues and parliament staff who come across her keep discussing her legs.

Nandala Mafabi 'reports' Gen Jeje Odongo to Kadaga

When debate on torture of suspects by police took centre stage in parliament recently, some MPs were incensed that the line minister, Gen Jeje Odongo was conspicuously absent.

The minister of Internal Affairs, in a communication to the speaker, said he was sick and could not make it for the fiery debate.

However, Budadiri West MP, Nathan Nandala-Mafabi did not take this lying down. While making a presentation on the issue of torture, he spilled the beans when he revealed that Gen Odongo was vigorously campaigning for the NRM candidate in Toroma county, Katakwi district.

His revelation sparked giggles from other legislators, while the speaker was left in shock, probably wondering whether Odongo, who doubles as Orungo MP, had lied to her.

When MP Katali scared colleagues over her legs

Last Wednesday was a bad day for a female MP from western Uganda. As a female colleague, she may have thought that Loy Katali, the Jinja Woman MP, would not feel offended by a compliment about her spotless, smooth and light-skinned legs.

So, when this MP met Katali, she innocently said: "Eeh Honourable, what happened to your legs?" To her surprise, Katali rudely shot back: "What?" Scared by the tone of her colleague, the MP remained speechless for about five minutes but Katali kept staring at her with wide eyes.

The woman MP then said: "Honourable, you are smart!"  Katali just turned her back and left without saying a word. However, it's not only that female MP who saw the change in Katali's legs and now colleagues and parliament staff who come across her keep discussing her legs.

What makes Rukutana tired at night?

Mwesigwa Rukutana is the deputy attorney general. He is a married man with three known wives. Trying to beat the deadline for passing the budget, parliament has spent the last one and a half weeks sitting in the mornings and afternoons.

Rukutana sat in some plenary sittings but not throughout as he had other official duties to attend to. When it came to an issue which required a justice minister to clarify, it was Rukutana to stand in for the justice ministers who were not around.

He, however, responded 'casually', annoying some MPs. "Right Hon Speaker, you called us here for this sitting because we are really trying to catch up with time. Hon Rukutana is talking as if he has no energy and people in the corners are not hearing him very well and there is no confidence in what he is [saying].

He is just talking casually. Is it right, Hon Speaker, for us to commit our time yet today we are not supposed to be sitting but we came?" Busongora North MP William Nzoghu said.

"Hon Members, as for the energy of the Hon Minister, I am not sure of what he was doing last night. That's why I can't tell why he has no energy this morning, but he is trying," Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah said, sending the House into laughter.

MP Cathy Ndamira's 'friendship' leaves journalists confused

Catherine Ndamira is the Kabale Woman MP. She is also an executive member of the Parliamentary Forum on Social Protection.

Among this forum's aims is supporting the elderly in respective constituencies and ensuring they access the monthly Shs 25,000 given to some elderly persons in some districts. Last week, some radio journalists approached Ndamira for an explanation on how a shortage of Shs 12bn in the Social Assistance Grants for the Elderly (SAGE) scheme would affect the elderly in her constituency.

She quickly referred them to Nakaseke South MP Paulsen Luttamaguzi or Manjiya MP John Baptist Nambeshe or forum chairperson Jacob Opolot (MP Pallisa), saying they are confident when speaking to the media.

But the journalists told her that they wanted a female voice and, being a member of the forum executive, she was their desired person.

They also told her that woman MPs keep complaining to the speaker that journalists don't give them a chance to speak in the media; so, they wanted her. However, the journalists' pleas fell on deaf ears.

"You people are my friends and I love the media, but I am still new. I have not learnt to speak to journalists. Give me just one more year to gain confidence, I will be speaking to you," she said.

The journalists seemed surprised at the politician's excuse and went away disappointed and confused about what Ndamira meant when she said she loves the media yet she refused to speak to them.

"The speaker complains that we don't give her women a chance but when you ask them to speak, they say they are not confident enough. What does the speaker want us to do?" one journalist said to the others.



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