SPEAKER ANITA AMONG ATTACKS PEOPLE ACCUSING MPs FOR CORRUPTION

The speaker of Parliament, Annet Anita Among recalled the legislators from recess to reconsider the Appropriations Bill 2024.
While the Parliament had approved the Bill in mid-May, President Museveni refused to assent to it. The President was protesting the fact that the Parliament had made a reallocation to the budget to the tune of over 750 billion shillings.
The President in the opening paragraph of his letter to the Speaker of Parliament highlighted what he described as a mistake of MPS interfering with the constitutional mandate of the President in budgeting for the country by reallocating money for core sectors of the economy.
“In the last four financial years, the MPS have reallocated a total of Shs 3.7 trillion. This is real sabotage. When we reconstructed Masaka road, we used Shs 440 Billion. Therefore diverting 3.7 Trillion in four years is equivalent to aborting 9 big roads of Kampala-Masaka,” said Museveni in a letter dated June 22nd.
The president’s letter referred to the arrest of three Members of Parliament accused of asking for a kickback from the Uganda Humans Rights Commission chairperson, Mariam Wangadya.
Museveni said he had raised the matter of MPS shuffling the budget in 2020.“Yet the practice goes on. There are three mistakes involved here. These are indiscipline in budgeting, sabotaging national priorities, and now suspicion of massive corruption”. He “requested” that no reshuffling of the budget should ever happen again without the input of the Executive.
An atmosphere of suspicion hung in the air as the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among steered the House to correct the “anomaly” that had emerged as the executive arm of the government accused the legislature of usurping its role of appropriation.
Among repeatedly said there was not any aspect of corruption related to the way the legislators reallocated the budget.
Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, moved the motion as per article 91(3) B of the constitution and rule 143 of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure. Kasaija had a tough time moving the motion. MPs kept on disrupting him.
With the allegations of corruption during the budgeting process, still fresh, the president’s refusal to assent to the Bill needed to operationalize the 2024/2025 was suspect.
Ibanda North MP, Xavier Akampulira then stood up the Minister was saying the President was not happy.
Akampulira has suggested the President’s compliments to the parliament on the budget day should be expunged from the Hansard. The Speaker did not however rule on the matter as she ensured that the House did not turn rowdy.
Matia Kasaija reminded Parliament of Article 156 of the Constitution and Parliament’s Rules of procedure, the schedule to the appropriation Bill must contain the allocations as appropriated by the Committee of Supply.

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Anytime something will help,Mps are corrupt and trouble causers of every hard situation are in,coz it's mps who approves everything in this country

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Which country is this?

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