Summary:
- Ssekikubo questioned why it has taken the Speaker nine days to respond to their letter.
KAMPALA: The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament, Theodore Ssekikubo, has expressed frustration over the delay by Speaker Anita Annet Among to respond to a request for transportation to collect signatures for a motion to censure four commissioners involved in the Shs1.7 billion service award.
Ssekikubo questioned why it has taken the Speaker nine days to respond to their letter.
Ssekikubo raised this concern during a media interview at Parliament on Wednesday. He also revealed that many MPs are avoiding their constituencies upon hearing that Ssekikubo’s team is arriving to collect signatures.
“We wrote to the Clerk to Parliament requesting a vehicle, and the Clerk informed us that it is up to the Speaker to provide transportation since we are in recess. We wrote to the Speaker on Tuesday, but we have yet to receive a response. This is baffling because we are fulfilling our duty. We are waiting to see what our next course of action will be. Since the Speaker has delayed, we thought we could start on our own,” Ssekikubo stated.
He emphasized the need for Parliament’s transportation, noting, “We can continue as we have, but Parliament vehicles are available. We are doing parliamentary work, so I don’t understand why the Speaker has refused to provide transportation so we can complete this job. She has no other business, so we can give her business.”
Ssekikubo described their efforts in Hoima and Busoga, where MPs quickly left upon hearing of their arrival. In Busoga, out of 42 MPs, only 11 have signed the censure motion. He noted the difficulty in obtaining signatures and their decision to return to Kampala.
Despite the challenges, Ssekikubo ruled out dropping the motion, stating, “We have come a long way with this motion. We will assess whether to wait for more MPs and later meet with those who have already signed. We can’t drop the motion because we’re short of 6-7 signatures when we’ve already collected 169. The difficulties we’ve faced inspire us to continue.”
One of the embattled Commissioners of Parliament, Prossy Akampurira Mbabazi, revealed that she used 400 million Shillings from the “Service Award” to empower women’s groups in Rubanda District.
Akampurira, the Rubanda District Woman MP, along with other NRM Parliamentary Commissioners and the former Leader of Opposition Mathias Mpuuga, has faced scrutiny over sharing the 1.7 billion Shillings service award. The other Commissioners include Zombo Woman MP Esther Afoyochan and Bukooli Central MP Solomon Silwanyi.
Akampurira explained that she used part of the money to start the “Prosperous Women Rubanda” (PWR) project in Rubanda District, which aims to support each of the 461 village women’s groups with 300,000 Shillings as seed capital.
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