The Secretary-General of the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM Justine Kasule Lumumba has said the former Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga should face the party’s disciplinary committee for having gone against its rules and contested as an independent for the office of the speaker of parliament.
On Monday(24th.May.2021) Kadaga was defeated by her former deputy Jacob Oulanyah with 310 votes against 197.
A day before the Monday vote, the Central Executive Committee, the second top most organ of the Party, had chosen Oulanyah to be the party’s flag bearer to the disappointment of Kadaga.
She told a hastily arranged press conference in Kampala that she was being edged out of the party for being vocal about issues that concern people.
But Lumumba said for the four times that the party chose Kadaga as their candidate twice as a speaker and twice as deputy speaker, they were aware of her rhetoric. Ms. Lumumba on Kadaga;….
Today, Central Executive Committee is expected to sit at State House Entebbe to evaluate Monday’s elections and also appoint MPs who will represent the party on the Parliamentary Appointments Committee that vet presidential appointees. President Museveni is expected to forward names of people he has appointed to the cabinet to parliament so that they are vetted before next week’s State of the Nation address, Lumumba said. END.
