Corridors of power
Dec 30, 2004
<b>Matembe’s patience</b><br>Former Ethics and Integrity minister, Miria Matembe is known for her patience.
Matembe’s patience
Former Ethics and Integrity minister, Miria Matembe is known for her patience. But during the burial of Dr Adonia Tiberondwa in Rwentuuha, Bushenyi, last Sunday, she ran out of patience over nothing else but the toilet. The Mbarara district woman MP was among mourners queuing to the toilet. When one man spent too long in the toilet, outspoken Matembe grumbled: “Some people need a reform agenda to learn toilet habits.â€
And true to her words, when he turn came, she did not keep the others waiting for long.
Defeat in elections
Rigged elections is the common excuse whenever politicians are beaten in the game. Mukono RDC Deo Nsereko, however, defers from the lot. While addressing the 17th sitting of Mukono district council at the community centre on Wednesday, he asked politicians to accept defeat just as he did. “Like a defeated general, I have no funny story to tell. I accepted all the results of the elections and I am now back to serve Mukono whole-heartedly,†Nsereko said. After the resignation of Kisamba Mugerwa as Bamunanika MP, the seat fell vacant. Nsereko stood with four other contestants and the results favoured Ali Ndawula, the Simba FM presenter,
who won with a landslide.
Hyuha’s ‘kisanja’!
Having been the chairperson of the parliamentary committee social services for a number of years uncontested, Dorothy Hyuha, who is serving her second term as Tororo district MP, now is seeking ekisanja for herself. She wants also to retain her big chair as general secretary of the Interim NRM-O executive. Hyuha recently told a women’s conference at Grand Imperial Hotel organised by the British Council she wished she retained that seat. “You know I am a capable woman. Pray for me so that I retain that chair as the secretary-general of NRM-Oâ€,
Hyuha told the conference.
DP faithfuls brag
DP supporters in Kakiri, Wakiso and Busiro North (VP Gilbert Bukenya’s constituency) are bragging after turning down his invitation to discuss developmental issues at his home in Kakiri. They say they smelt a rat that Bukenya would parade them to pressmen and make them wear essanja and say that they had converted to the Movement. They told DP strongman Damiano Lubega that Bukenya had moved round the constituency, trying to woo them into the Movement.
Former Ethics and Integrity minister, Miria Matembe is known for her patience. But during the burial of Dr Adonia Tiberondwa in Rwentuuha, Bushenyi, last Sunday, she ran out of patience over nothing else but the toilet. The Mbarara district woman MP was among mourners queuing to the toilet. When one man spent too long in the toilet, outspoken Matembe grumbled: “Some people need a reform agenda to learn toilet habits.â€
And true to her words, when he turn came, she did not keep the others waiting for long.
Defeat in elections
Rigged elections is the common excuse whenever politicians are beaten in the game. Mukono RDC Deo Nsereko, however, defers from the lot. While addressing the 17th sitting of Mukono district council at the community centre on Wednesday, he asked politicians to accept defeat just as he did. “Like a defeated general, I have no funny story to tell. I accepted all the results of the elections and I am now back to serve Mukono whole-heartedly,†Nsereko said. After the resignation of Kisamba Mugerwa as Bamunanika MP, the seat fell vacant. Nsereko stood with four other contestants and the results favoured Ali Ndawula, the Simba FM presenter,
who won with a landslide.
Hyuha’s ‘kisanja’!
Having been the chairperson of the parliamentary committee social services for a number of years uncontested, Dorothy Hyuha, who is serving her second term as Tororo district MP, now is seeking ekisanja for herself. She wants also to retain her big chair as general secretary of the Interim NRM-O executive. Hyuha recently told a women’s conference at Grand Imperial Hotel organised by the British Council she wished she retained that seat. “You know I am a capable woman. Pray for me so that I retain that chair as the secretary-general of NRM-Oâ€,
Hyuha told the conference.
DP faithfuls brag
DP supporters in Kakiri, Wakiso and Busiro North (VP Gilbert Bukenya’s constituency) are bragging after turning down his invitation to discuss developmental issues at his home in Kakiri. They say they smelt a rat that Bukenya would parade them to pressmen and make them wear essanja and say that they had converted to the Movement. They told DP strongman Damiano Lubega that Bukenya had moved round the constituency, trying to woo them into the Movement.