Anita Among elected deputy Speaker of Parliament
Monday May 24 2021
Bukedea Woman MP Anita Among pictured during the first sitting of the 11th Parliament at Kololo Airstrip on May 24, 2021. PHOTO/ PARLIAMENT PRESS TEAM
Summary
Anita Among, 47, is, an accountant, a lawyer and politician, born in Bukedea District.
She worked with the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and later shifted allegiance to the ruling party and voted for the removal of the presidential age limit in December 2017.
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Bukedea Woman MP, Ms Anita Among has been elected Deputy Speaker of the 11th Parliament with overwhelming majority after beating her two male contenders; Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko (Independent) and Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi (FDC).
Daily Monitor
Sunday May 23 2021
Muhammad Nsereko, 40, is a lawyer. He is an Independent member of Parliament who has represented the Kampala Central Division constituency since 2011. PHOTOS | FILE
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Nine MPs have so far expressed interest in the office of Deputy Speaker, to replace Mr Jacob Oulanyah who vacated the seat on Wednesday and set his eyes on the Speaker position.
Members of the 11th Parliament will convene at Kololo Independence Grounds tomorrow, May 24, to elect the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker.
The Deputy Speaker is under the Office of the Speaker. It’s the fifth highest office in the land. The Deputy chairs the House in the absence of the Speaker or as and when called in by the Speaker.
May 23, 2021 The NRM opted for Oulanyah over Kadaga
Kamuli Woman MP Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga says she will defy her ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), and contest as an independent candidate in the race for the 11th parliament speaker.
Kadaga told journalists at a hastily organized press conference at Hotel Africana that while her party has decided to field her former deputy, Jacob Oulanyah for the position, she will not heed to the position and therefore will exercise her right to run as an independent when parliament meets tomorrow to elect the speaker and deputy speaker.
Today, both the NRM central executive committee (CEC) and the party caucus resolved to field Oulanyah as the party s preferred candidate for speaker of the 11th parliament. Kadaga reportedly stormed out of the meeting at State House Entebbe after non-CEC members were allowed into the meeting and she was being accused of disloyalty to the NRM party. From Entebbe, Kadaga drove straight to H
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