The election petition by Procovia Salaamu Musumba challenging Rebecca Kadaga’s election as Kamuli Woman MP has no bearing on her re-lection as Speaker, the rules committee has said.
Cecilia Ogwal, the Dokolo Woman Member of Parliament said that the matter of absentee Ministers including the leader of Government Business and Chief Whip should be brought to the attention of the President.
Members of Parliament have today thrown their weight behind the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga as she contests for Second National Chairperson of the National Resistance Movement (NRM).
MPs from the Busoga caucus reportedly started collecting signatures to impeach Oulanyah last week, a move that Oulanyah loyalists are suspicious could be coming from Kadaga’s camp. According to media reports some MPs have already signed the petition in a discreet move.
She tasked the committee chaired by Kalaki County MP Clement Ongalo Obote to pick lessons from the parliaments of Albania, Brazil, Columbia and the United Kingdom and others to ensure that legislative work is not disrupted as coronavirus disease rages on.
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has allayed concerns raised by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt, Ali Abdel-Aal, on the use of the River Nile whose basin is situated in Uganda, on Lake Victoria.
Kadaga promised to research how some governments especially in Scandinavian countries fund the media industry and sell the idea to the Parliamentary Commission.
The COSASE standoff started after a suggestion that the current committee, headed by Bugweri County MP Abdul Katuntu should complete the probe into the irregular sale and closure of Commercial banks, before handing over to a new team. The tenure of the current committee expires on January 13, 2019.
Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has ruled that the Legislature has no capacity to interfere with the implementation of both the Mobile Money and Social Media Tax.
The memorandum between the parliament of Uganda and the National people’s congress of the People’s Republic of China aims at guiding the Nationals of the two countries in fighting terrorism, extremism, separatism and condemning terrorism in all forms.
After David Bahati congratulated Kadaga on her CWP win, Busongora North MP William Nzoghu told the Speaker that she had delayed to contest to become Uganda\'s first female President.
Journalists covering parliament have rejected the new rules of conduct that were issued by the Public Relations office saying that they were not consulted.
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga on Thursday vowed to keep a closer eye on all procurements and expenditures for the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference scheduled for March next year in Uganda.
The opposition should adopt other methods and means of demanding government action instead of disrupting economic activities through Walk to work protests, speaker Rebecca Kadaga has advised.
The probe stems from a petition by KHK Rayan, a local Shoe company investor in Jinja, complaining about the NRM vice-chairman, Grace Makisho, who he said was frustrating his efforts to establish his industry.
