Daily Monitor
Sunday May 16 2021
Summary
May 24 Polls: The day for the election of both the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, according to Ms Jane Kibirige, the Clerk to Parliament.
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When his presence was announced at Kololo Independence Grounds during President Museveni’s inauguration, both Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah received mixed reaction from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters who had turned up..
One got loud cheers, which lasted for minutes, while for the other, it was rather muted. Going by that, one may conclude who the NRM fanatics prefer for the job.
In the previous months, there has been a lull in the fight for the Speaker job after President Museveni directed both warring parties to ‘ceasefire’ as each side fired one salvo after another.