FDC members miss House session
Sep 14, 2006
A ROW has erupted among the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) members over the MPs’ proposed sh60m grant for cars, Parliament heard yesterday.
By Milton Olupot
and Apollo Mubiru
A ROW has erupted among the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) members over the MPs’ proposed sh60m grant for cars, Parliament heard yesterday.
Parliament Speaker Edward Ssekandi yesterday read to the House a letter the Leader of the Opposition, Prof. Ogenga Latigo, wrote to him, asking that FDC MPs be excused from attending the morning plenary to attend a meeting over the controversy.
“The main opposition, the FDC, is not here. Some controversy is brewing in the party over the vehicle scheme. In a letter here, they say they have urgent matters to sort out,†Ssekandi said.
The FDC party was locked up in a crisis meeting yesterday to reconcile the different positions the party MPs had taken.
Ssekandi excused the main opposition legislators from the plenary session that considered and passed the 2006/07 financial year budget.
No members of the FDC were in the House although a handful turned up later. In a letter dated September 8, Latigo wrote to all FDC MPs inviting them to attend the crisis meeting.
“I refer you to the attached letter from the Party Secretary General written on the instruction of our party’s NEC dated 7th September, that I received. By the letter, we are directed to meet and discuss, in particular, the matter of transport facilitation for MPs. I am also directed to report the outcome of our meeting to the NEC next Thursday,†Latigo wrote.
Ogenga is said to have supported the proposal of sh20b for MPs’ cars while on a talk-show on Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, a position the FDC National Executive Committee (NEC) was opposed to.
and Apollo Mubiru
A ROW has erupted among the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) members over the MPs’ proposed sh60m grant for cars, Parliament heard yesterday.
Parliament Speaker Edward Ssekandi yesterday read to the House a letter the Leader of the Opposition, Prof. Ogenga Latigo, wrote to him, asking that FDC MPs be excused from attending the morning plenary to attend a meeting over the controversy.
“The main opposition, the FDC, is not here. Some controversy is brewing in the party over the vehicle scheme. In a letter here, they say they have urgent matters to sort out,†Ssekandi said.
The FDC party was locked up in a crisis meeting yesterday to reconcile the different positions the party MPs had taken.
Ssekandi excused the main opposition legislators from the plenary session that considered and passed the 2006/07 financial year budget.
No members of the FDC were in the House although a handful turned up later. In a letter dated September 8, Latigo wrote to all FDC MPs inviting them to attend the crisis meeting.
“I refer you to the attached letter from the Party Secretary General written on the instruction of our party’s NEC dated 7th September, that I received. By the letter, we are directed to meet and discuss, in particular, the matter of transport facilitation for MPs. I am also directed to report the outcome of our meeting to the NEC next Thursday,†Latigo wrote.
Ogenga is said to have supported the proposal of sh20b for MPs’ cars while on a talk-show on Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, a position the FDC National Executive Committee (NEC) was opposed to.