[UAH] The Observer - Wolokoso: MPs flee from loan agents
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Sales executives from Standard Chartered bank who were last week sent to look for possible clients among MPs went away cursing their ill luck, after failing to recruit a single honourable client.
With reports of the majority of the MPs carrying almost nothing home at the end of the month, Stanchart seems not to have done enough homework before choosing to target the MPs for the loan scheme. The curvy girls from Stanchart first caught the eye of the MPs but on mentioning the mission for which they were at Parliament, the interest seemed to wane.
"Ha!!!! My friend, I have enough loan burden; I can't take on a new one," one MP told them.
Another one simply told them: "I don't want to listen to anything like a loan. Haven't you heard that some of our colleagues even fear coming here out of fear of being arrested?"
From rebel MPs to special ones
The 'rebel' MPs may have been expelled from NRM, but they do not look out of place. In fact, MPs Theodore Ssekikubo (Lwemiyaga), Wilfred Niwagaba (Ndorwa East) and Barnabas Tinkasiimire (Buyaga West), ditched over alleged indiscipline, seem to enjoy their seemingly pitiable status.
During two recent national functions, the state of the nation address and the budget presentation day, the trio had their special seats reserved just right at the front next to the Vice President. Their fellow expellee, Muhammad Nsereko (Kampala Central), was reportedly out of the country.
"We are special MPs, you see, they even put cards on our seats indicating clearly who is supposed to sit there," Tinkasiimire bragged before other MPs. Ssekikubo chipped in, hailing the sitting arrangement because it put them in front of Museveni who struggled to avoid direct eye contact with them.
Police causes food deflation in Sembabule
It seems the standoff between IGP Kale Kayihura and Lwemiyaga MP Theodore Ssekikubo has yielded some good. Kayihura recently deployed police in Bigaga forest reserve to protect cows belonging to businesswoman Kellen Kayonga, as residents threatened to slaughter them. Little did Kayihura know he was going to bring a windfall to produce traders in the area.
The police seem to have gone with a lot of food supplies that they chose to sell off some to the villagers specifically at Kabukongote village. A 100kg bag of maize flour was selling for as low as Shs 30,000. This excited the villagers, who alerted retailers in the neighbouring Ntusi township who normally get their flour from Masaka.
Alerting sleepy ministers
Several ministers went for the budget speech last week well aware that photojournalists would be on the lookout for any sleepy ministers. To avoid the embarrassment, the ministers seem to have asked their colleagues to tap them the moment they saw a camera focussing at them more so for Justice and Constitutional affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire who at one moment drew laughter from the guests in attendance when his image was displaying on the giant screens at the International conference centre struggling to create an impression that he had not dozed off.
The trick was, however, not sustainable as some of the ministers surrendered to the mighty powers of sleep.
MPs provoke Museveni on Sejusa
Since Gen David Sejusa's controversial letter was published, President Museveni has tried to avoid publically commenting on the Sejusa issue. But during the budget speech last Thursday, several opposition MPs kept provoking him until he eventually responded.
"You look for him" he shot back at MPs who were asking him for Sejusa's whereabouts.
Earlier, during the State-of-the-Nation address, the MPs had tried in vain to get a word from the big man about his runaway general. Last week, they continued pressing, till they got him to retort: "Join him in the bush if you want."
Not done, the MPs again kept shouting "Sejusa", forcing Museveni to say: "The problem is that every time you open the newspapers you look for Sejusa. For me, I see more things."
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