The Leader of Opposition in Parliament has addressed the media in regard to the pronouncements made by the Rt Hon. Anita Annet Among – Speaker of Parliament of Uganda relating to the absence of the Opposition from Plenary.
He says the absence from the House is official because it was officially communicated.
Mpuuga added that It’s the duty of Parliament’s presiding officers to consider how to treat official communication.
“I earlier communicated of a meeting we had in the Speaker’s chambers during which the regime’s Ministers of Defence, Security and Inter Affairs undertook to make a comprehensive response to each of the issues we raised. They had a time frame of 30 days which elapsed last Sunday on 19th November 2023.” He said.
Here is more he said
At no one time are we going to return to #PlenaryUg without our demands being responded to. All we are waiting for is the date and time the regime will be ready to respond.
We received communication last week that they were unable to come with the statement because they had travelled out of the country for a security meeting. Do they want to tell us that when they travelled, they fled into exile? Are they dead or were disappeared like #TheMissing18?
Our demand of the Speaker is for her to follow up on Parliament’s instructions to the Executive. We expect her to be neutral; an arbitor or referee whose duty is to demand that the Executive comes and answer. Other matters short of an answer are peripheral and we are not willing to be diverted into that.
