The
Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee Janepher Nantume Egunyu has said she
will meet the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga over lack of funds to
investigate electoral violence.
Last week, the committee postponed investigations into cases of electoral
violence due to lack of funding.
Kadaga
had directed the committee to take stock of the human rights violations that
marred the electoral process.
As part of the investigations, the committee had planned to interact with
Presidential candidates, security agencies including the police and the army as
well as the victims.
According to Egunyu, she now plans to meet Kadaga and the Clerk to Parliament
Jane Kibirige on the funding.
During plenary on Wednesday, Kadaga asked the committee to expedite their work
since incidents of human rights violations are still going on.
Kadaga was responding to a matter of National Importance raised by the
Opposition Whip Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda who said that he wanted to give
evidence before the committee but they could not be traced.
She also said that she had received a petition from Uganda Young Democrats
(UYD) over continued rights violations by security. Kadaga on petition;..
Kadaga also forwarded the petition to the Human Rights Committee for scrutiny. END.