Kadaga camp pushes to take fight to Parliament
Sunday May 23 2021
Summary
Bugiri Municipality MP Asuman Basalirwa, who heads Ms Kadaga’s campaign media team, argues that CEC, which he described as “a handful of people,” cannot be making decisions on big issues like the job of Speaker.
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Unyielding supporters of outgoing Speaker Rebecca Kadaga say her name will appear on the ballot tomorrow as the 11th Parliament convenes for the first time since the January 14 elections to vote Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
Even though the NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting deferred declaring who they preferred last night, the Kadaga camp appeared resolute and had no kind words for those asking her to step down for Mr Jacob Oulanyah, her rival for the post.
Daily Monitor
Sunday April 11 2021
President Museveni (left) meets religious leaders during the African Bishop’s conference in July 2019. PHOTOS/ FILE, RACHEL MABALA
Summary
Coming against a backdrop of unequivocal demands by President Museveni that religious leaders must leave politics to politicians, his revelations during Archbishop Kizito Lwanga’s funeral service at the Kololo Independence Grounds has only served to return the debate on whether or not religious leaders should be engaging in politics, or making pronouncements about matters politics.
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On Tuesday, President Museveni revealed that the late Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, his predecessor, Cardinal Nsubuga, and other religious leaders had been supportive of the National Resistance Army’s (NRA’s) five-year Bush War.
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Daily Monitor
Saturday February 27 2021
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah (left) and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga chairing plenary sessions of Parliament. Photo/ David Lubowa
Summary
Among the teams canvassing votes for the two rivals for the Speaker of Parliament job are MPs who were defeated in last month’s election but are still considered influential.
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Underground work for the Speaker of Parliament job is fiercely going on, with Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy Jacob Oulanyah having already formed core teams to reach out to MPs-elect ahead of the election scheduled for May 20.
Sources at Parliament told Saturday Monitor that Ms Kadaga’s team is headed by her personal assistant, Mr Peter Busiku, Bugiri Municipality MP and Jeema president Asuman Basalirwa, Bugabula South MP (NRM) Maurice Kibalya, Kalungu West MP Joseph Ssewungu, and outgoing Mukono South MP Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga.