The aspirant for National Vice Chairperson, female Princess Percis Namuganza has accused Speaker Rebecca Kadaga of disloyalty to the chairperson of the NRM and the party.
She made the remarks during the party delegate conference that was held scientifically in a bid to prevent the spread of covid19.
“When you are in CEC you need to remain loyal to the President and the party. I promise that when I am elected, I will work closely with fellow NEC members unlike Speaker Kadaga,” Namuganza said.
Hon Persis Namuganza hit at Kadaga noting that a motion of displeasure against the party president was a wrong motion.
In May 2020, MPs passed a motion condemning the president for castigating parliament’s decision to allocate its self Ugx 10 billion in a supplementary budget to fight COVID-19.
Museveni said it was morally reprehensible for MPs to allocate themselves money amidst a crisis and that they were not government’s purchasing officers to start buying and distributing relief food and alms to people using public funds.
The motion of displeasure was presented by Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda amidst what the speaker of parliament described as an attack on the legislature.
It is not the first time Namuganza is accusing Kadaga of disloyalty to President Museveni and the party.
Kadaga pointed out her strengths including loyalty, emancipation of women and all marginalised groups; marketing of Uganda to global audiences; mooting policies which enhance the quality of Ugandans’ lives; and above all focus and experience
“I have marketed this country; this is because, after 1971, Uganda’s image had gone down.More people have been able to visit Uganda; this has only gone down because of the COVID19 pandemic,” Kadaga said.
” I have attended several meetings with different Speakers and come up with different policies.I was central in the setting up the daycare center at Parliament, the first in Uganda and am happy other institutions have taken that up,”she added.
Kadaga said that if she wasn’t the speaker of the House in 2017, President Museveni would not be on the ballot paper in the forthcoming 2021 general election.
Kadaga oversaw the amendment of the Country’s Constitution in 2017 where 317 Members of Parliament (MPs) who were mainly from the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) voted to lift the Presidential age-limit that would later allow the NRM party chairman who turns 76 years next year to run for another term.
Before its lifting, Article 102 (b) of the Constitution locked out any Ugandan above 75 years and below 35 years from contesting for the highest political office in the country.
While appearing on STV, a local television station, Kadaga said that if she was not the speaker, the age-limit could not have been lifted and President Museveni would now be packing his bags to leave the State House.
Kadaga said, “He was not going to be on the ballot paper. By now, he would be packing.”
Asked if she is proud of her role, Kadaga said, “well it happened. It happened and it passed, let’s focus on other things now.”
In 2017 as the debate on lifting the presidential age-limit raged on many analysts then noted that Kadaga had suddenly changed from the impartial speaker they had known to a partisan one.
In fact when a section of opposition legislators tried to challenge some of her decisions, they were promptly suspended.
The amendment of the Constitution’s article 102 (b) was punctuated with violence as Parliament was invaded by officers of the Special Forces Command who beat up MPs, leaving at least two MPs injured in the process.