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Thursday May 27 2021
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On a brief visit to Uganda at the end of 1999, I met Jacob Oulanyah at a law office he shared with Norbert Mao at Equatoria Hotel.
Jacob whom I later met a few times with his late wife Dorothy Abner Nangwale at the Luzira home of Winnie Byanyima and her husband Kizza Besigye, was at a crossroads. Jacob was really unhappy with his friend/part mentor Norbert who had decamped to an outfit (whose name I cannot remember) led by Aggrey S. Awori and left him in the cold. Jacob had actually been a very good teacher of Legislative drafting at Law Development Centre. In his earlier years he had been a student leader, mature age entrant into Law School and if the past defines the future, he was quickly elected to Parliament in 2001.
The outgoing Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, has cautioned against the appointment of a judge as the next Speaker of the eighth Parliament.
Mr Mubarak noted in an article he posted on Facebook that the new Speaker of Parliament should be someone who has served as an MP previously.
Parts of his article read: “As far as I’m concerned, the nominee for the Speaker of the 8th Parliament of Ghana, should be someone who knows the standing orders (the rule book of parliament) thoroughly”.
“It should also be someone who has been a former or a current MP and commands respect from both sides of the aisle. Above all, someone who can help build bridges, and get the job of running parliament done”.