Corridors Of Power
Apr 16, 2008
<b>Ignorant legislator</b><br>Being informed on issues is very important. On Tuesday, Kooki MP Major Magulumaali Muwayi attacked the information and communications technology minister Dr. Ham Mukasa Mulira over the ministry’s performance.
Ignorant legislator
Being informed on issues is very important. On Tuesday, Kooki MP Major Magulumaali Muwayi attacked the information and communications technology minister Dr. Ham Mukasa Mulira over the ministry’s performance. He asked him before the parliamentary committee why the ministry in its “four-year existence†had only seen the setting up of 316 public pay phones instead of the required 2,599. The amused Mulira politely responded that the ministry was set up only last year.
Parliament bell
A bell always rings at Parliament at 1.45pm to warn MPs that the House is about to convene. However, when the Buganda kingdom officials presented their views on the land amendment Bill 2007, they did not know about it. Mengo information minister Peter Mayiga looked uneasy and asked the committee chairman, Peter Nyombi, whether they were safe or there was a fire outbreak. To his surprise all the MPs broke into prolonged laughter until Nyombi told him the purpose of the bell.
“That is a bell to alert us that plenary is soon starting,†Nyombi explained.
Ethnicity matters
Ethnicity seems to be vital issue in politics. Sarah Nansubuga Nyombi
(Kayunga NRM) proved this recently when Buganda kingdom officials presented their views on the land amendment Bill 2007 in Parliament. The presentation by Apolo Makubuya, the kingdom’s attorney general almost ate into the MPs’ lunch hour. The committee chairman, Peter Nyombi, gave a few MPs a chance to ask questions. Nyombi who had arrived late was not amused. She asked him why he had not picked her when she was the only Muganda MP around. “I am even the only land owner, moreover your namesake,†she complained.
Wining and dining
On Tuesday a team from the ICT ministry feasted on all the samosas, sodas, tea, coffee and doughnuts as their minister laboured to respond to MPs’ queries on the ministry’s performance. Some irritated Buganda kingdom officials asked the MPs whether they don’t serve lunch at parliament so as to feed official guests on tea or coffee, mineral water, samosas and doughnuts.
Being informed on issues is very important. On Tuesday, Kooki MP Major Magulumaali Muwayi attacked the information and communications technology minister Dr. Ham Mukasa Mulira over the ministry’s performance. He asked him before the parliamentary committee why the ministry in its “four-year existence†had only seen the setting up of 316 public pay phones instead of the required 2,599. The amused Mulira politely responded that the ministry was set up only last year.
Parliament bell
A bell always rings at Parliament at 1.45pm to warn MPs that the House is about to convene. However, when the Buganda kingdom officials presented their views on the land amendment Bill 2007, they did not know about it. Mengo information minister Peter Mayiga looked uneasy and asked the committee chairman, Peter Nyombi, whether they were safe or there was a fire outbreak. To his surprise all the MPs broke into prolonged laughter until Nyombi told him the purpose of the bell.
“That is a bell to alert us that plenary is soon starting,†Nyombi explained.
Ethnicity matters
Ethnicity seems to be vital issue in politics. Sarah Nansubuga Nyombi
(Kayunga NRM) proved this recently when Buganda kingdom officials presented their views on the land amendment Bill 2007 in Parliament. The presentation by Apolo Makubuya, the kingdom’s attorney general almost ate into the MPs’ lunch hour. The committee chairman, Peter Nyombi, gave a few MPs a chance to ask questions. Nyombi who had arrived late was not amused. She asked him why he had not picked her when she was the only Muganda MP around. “I am even the only land owner, moreover your namesake,†she complained.
Wining and dining
On Tuesday a team from the ICT ministry feasted on all the samosas, sodas, tea, coffee and doughnuts as their minister laboured to respond to MPs’ queries on the ministry’s performance. Some irritated Buganda kingdom officials asked the MPs whether they don’t serve lunch at parliament so as to feed official guests on tea or coffee, mineral water, samosas and doughnuts.