{UAH} Kadaga tells CEC to back off speaker race-this is the abuse the rogue regime.

why should cec determine the speaker who is supposed to be independent? who gave them powers? kadaga i right here

Kadaga tells CEC to back off speaker race

Thursday May 20 2021

Speaker of the dissolved 10th Parliament Rebecca Kadaga speaks to journalists at the NRM electoral commission office in Kampala yesterday. Photo/Michael Kakumirizi

Summary

• On May 15, 2011, the NRM Caucus endorsed Ms Kadaga after CEC asked Mr Edward Ssekandi to step down for her. This was after Mr Ssekandi completed 10 years as speaker. In 2016, CEC again endorsed Ms Kadaga and ordered Mr Jacob Oulanyah to step down after she complained that Mr Ssekandi was allowed to serve 10 years as Speaker.  Mr Oulanyah withdrew from the race after CEC members agreed that he takes over when Ms Kadaga's 10-year tenure expires. 

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Kamuli District Woman Member of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, who has been Speaker of the dissolved 10th Parliament, yesterday said "it is undemocratic" for members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) top organ to predetermine the party's flag bearer for speakership.

Ms Kadaga was responding to journalists' questions at the party's electoral commission at Plot 10, Kyadondo Road, an upscale neighbourhood of Kampala, after expressing her interest to the party to retain the speakership job in the 11th Parliament.
The journalists had asked Ms Kadaga to explain why she subjected herself to a party organ (the NRM Central Executive Committee) she had previously pigeon-holed as "undemocratic."

In response, Ms Kadaga yesterday repeated the attacks on CEC and threw a dagger, questioning why President Museveni goes back to the party after every five years and asks them what they can do and wondered why the party now wants to ring-fence the position of speaker. 
"You don't listen, you don't listen. I said it would be undemocratic for CEC to sit five years early and say five years later so and so will be our speaker. Why don't you do that for the President? Every five years, he comes back and says elections are here, what do we do?"  she said.

"We cannot sit here even in my constituency in Kamuli, you cannot say in five years you will be our MP.  When five years come, you must go back and subject yourself to them. It will be undemocratic for them [CEC members] to say [that nobody should contest for the position [of the speaker] since CEC already selected a candidate. You have selected! Are you selecting your cattle?"

Ms Kadaga is facing challenge from, among others, Omoro MP-elect and NRM vice chairperson for northern Uganda Jacob Oulanyah, who has been Deputy Speaker in 10th Parliament, and is reported to have been endorsed by CEC in 2016 for Speaker in the 11th Parliament.  
In March when the issue of Speaker first emerged on the floor of Parliament, Ms Kadaga clashed with former Kiboga District Woman MP Ruth Nankabirwa over the 2016 CEC resolution.

Kadaga, Nankabirwa face off
Trouble started after Ms Nankabirwa reminded Ms Kadaga about the proceedings in the CEC when she faced off with Mr Oulanyah for the same position in 2016. 
"I am the chair of the NRM Caucus and that position makes me a member of the CEC of NRM. I attended CEC when we were handling the candidates who had contested at that time for Speaker and Deputy Speaker… What I posted was a reminder of the CEC decision of 2016 where CEC persuaded Hon Oulanyah to step down for Right Honourable Rebecca Kadaga," Ms Nankabirwa said.

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