Kampala, Uganda | Africaworldreports &URN | Hours before the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meets and an NRM Parliamentary caucus election is held to determine the party’s candidate for Speaker and Deputy, Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa has said MPS are under hostage, and need to be freed. She said she sees Jacob Oulanyah as parliament’s saviour.
“That parliament will change. It will stop being a parliament of tension, pretense….the tension is too much,” Nankabirwa said.
Nankabirwa said that NRM needs to vote for a Speaker who is loyal to the party. Deputy Speaker Oulanyah is seeking to unseat his boss Rebecca Kadaga, Kamuli Woman MP.
“You do things not because you are enjoying, because I will miss out on this trip. Excuse me, that must stop,” Nankabirwa warned, adding that ” I am praying that Jacob Oulanyah takes the chair, so that other people who would like to becomes speakers, will learn a lesson.”
She said this as a section of Members of Parliament held prayers Friday for the Omoro County MP Jacob Oulanyah ahead of his contest for the position of Speaker of Parliament. MPs believed to be Oulanyah’s supporters organized prayers at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala
Some of the MPs who attended included Ministers Bright Rwamirama, Peter Ogwang, Betty Amongi and Robinah Nabbanja.
Others were the outgoing Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa, Jim Muhwezi, Alex Ruhunda, Koboko MP Charles Ayume, Felix Okot Ogong, the Dokolo South MP, and Joy Waako, the National female MP representing older persons.
Tumwesigye Josephat, MP Bugangaizi South, Samon Nadeb, MP Bulamogi County, Muhammad Kato, Katerere County MP, Patience Nkunda, Kanungu Woman MP and Wilson Kajwengye, Nyabushozi County MP were in attendance as well.
Reverend Christine Shimanya, the Parliament Chaplain who led the prayers asked God to grant Oulanyah victory.
