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Speaker Among’s rise and depth of her power
June 2, 2021 Deputy speaker Anita Among
Anita Among’s election on May 24 as deputy speaker of parliament, completed her five-year-long meteoric ascension to the apex of the elite legislative branch of government.
She garnered an overwhelming 415 votes to ultimately claim the crown and consign her opposition contenders; Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi (FDC) (35 votes) and Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko (Independent) (24 votes) to oblivion.
The Bukedea woman MP has used individual political brilliance and unquestioning loyalty to the powers-that-be to scale the heights of politics. In terms of influence, access to resources and to the highest office in the land, Among continues to overshadow many lawmakers and ministers.
The prediction of many a political analyst was that the acrimonious race for Speaker would leave the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party in disarray, but the aftermath of the.