{UAH} UNFORGIVING: MP Odonga Otto carries Beef with Jacob Oulanyah Forward
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MP Odonga Otto carries Beef with Jacob Oulanyah Forward, Decides to Boycott all Seatings Chaired by the Deputy Speaker
By Stephen K Muwambi
Aruu County maverick legislator Odonga Otto now regards Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah as a leper.
After calling Oulanyah a disgrace to Acholiland and the law profession and even declaring openly that he would cross over to the man’s constituency and uproot him come 2016, Odonga is still baying for the Deputy Speaker’s blood.
Even when Oulanyah has publically done the near mad thing: apologized to all and sundry for his assumed and real wrongs, Odonga is not about to end his beef with his tribesman.
The latest we have is that Odonga has vowed never to step into any parliamentary business with Oulanyah acting as the Speaker.
“I have written to the Clerk of Parliament to give me the roster of seatings so that I can know when Oulanyah is chairing the house so I can keep away,� Odonga told journalists today.
Fuming that he is too much of a serious Cchristian to romance with the “devil�, Odonga said he would only return to Parliament when Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga is in charge of parliamentary business.
“The man is a rubber stamp of Museveni. He is more yellow than people who laid down their lives for this regime. To attend his sittings is to lend credence to his rubberstamp role,� Odonga charged.
Odonga proposed to NRM to replace Oulanyah with either Minister Adolf Mwesigye or rebel MP Wilfred Niwagaba, whom he touted as gentlemen.
Oulanyah has been variously attacked for presiding over controversial matters in Parliament and giving them a clean bill of health.
During the Public Order Management Bill now Act, Oulanyah suspended Odonga and Ssemujju Nganda for turning the House into a disco hall.
What incensed the people is that when the MPs had served their three seatings suspension, Oulanyah still demanded that they apologize to him for the mess they had caused.
When Nganda refused and returned to Parliament, Oulanyah ordered him out prompting muscle-men to carry him like a goat and shove him off like mere chuff.
In the scuffle with Nganda battling to free himself, his jacket got torn and he was pictured a sorry sight.
Under immense pressure, Oulanyah later apologized to the MPs, Parliament and the country for whatever wrong he had done.
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