Daily Monitor
Monday May 24 2021
Summary
UPC spokesperson Okello Lucima and others believe Oulanyah’s is a case of “give a dog a bad name and hang it!”
Oulanyah also retains his regal bearing with a signature moustache and trademark bow-tie and sometimes collarless socialist garb. He remains a par-excellence debater, formidable orator and authoritative on legislative procedure.
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The National Resistance Movement party, Central Executive Committee (CEC) yesterday picked Omoro County Member of Parliament, Mr Jacob Oulanyah, as its flag bearer for the Parliament Speaker race.
Critics have before mocked Oulanyah as good a puppet, but President Museveni has often disagreed; mollycoddling Oulanyah as a loyal cadre.
By Damali Mukhaye
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change has blamed the current mess in the National Resistance Movement camp on the gaps in Uganda’s constitution
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There has been growing tension within the ruling NRM party after the former speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga defied the party’s decision and decided to run as an independent for the Speakership race whose election is underway.
Addressing journalists at their headquarters, the FDC deputy Secretary General Harold Kaija said the constitution that supports multi-partism also allows people to enter parliament on individual merit.
He said if a person enters parliament as an independent, his voters cannot recall them, saying the same is happening in NRM where a party member with a card is contesting as an independent and nothing can be done to her.
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).
The Omoro County MP got 310 votes against the Kamuli woman MP who got 197 votes while Kira Municipality MP, Ibrahim Ssemujju of FDC trailed in the third position with 15 votes