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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Saturday defended the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, against those attacking her on social media over alleged corruption and irrational expenditure of Parliament. 

For weeks now, the Speaker has been in the limelight over alleged misappropriation of funds by Parliament. 

This has been done through social media under a campaign running under the #UgandaParliamentExhibition hashtag.

“I have been hearing some people attacking her and other MPs. These young MPs, most of them are learners, they come from the university and because of democracy, they are elected," said Museveni.

"Sometimes, they may be excited, get loans, and get into debt. 

"Sometimes they make other mistakes but within the NRM, we always get together and see how we help out people and help them out of the mistakes they may be involved in."

The President made the remarks while addressing the residents of Bukedea at Emokor Grounds in eastern Uganda.

Speaker Among is also the Woman MP of Bukedea.

Museveni's address came hot on the heels of his commissioning of Bukedea Teaching Hospital — built by Among — and College of Health Sciences in Bukedea.

In his comments, Museveni said the real problem Uganda has is the traitors who work for foreigners but not the Speaker or Members of Parliament.

“It is the traitors who are working for foreigners. Those are the real traitors. They are not mistake makers, they are not learners who need advice, they are outright traitors," he said. 

"First of all, they are working for foreigners but moreover working for bad types of foreigners like homosexuals and imperialists who want Africans to be slaves again."

The President further revealed that he was monitoring, through the intelligence, to see what has been going on regarding the social media attacks against the Speaker.

“How can you talk so much on social media about Anita Among? How about those working for foreigners? We are going to expose those traitors."

Museveni went on to thank the Speaker for working closely with the whole government system, which he said has helped to hinder standoffs.

“I want to salute Anita Among. Whatever she may want to know I will tell her because we are all here. We all live here, you don't need to put her on social media. That means there's something wrong with you."