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Given the numbers their party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), commands in Parliament, it is unlikely that Anita Among and Thomas Tayebwa will lose today’s speaker and deputy speaker elections.
Information minister Dr Chris Baryomunsi has revealed that Jacob Oulanyah, the former speaker of the 11th Parliament, succumbed to cancer, and had not been poisoned.
NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine says Ugandans deserve to know the cause of death of late speaker Jacob Oulanyah, the person behind the death and the reason why the Omoro County MP lost his life in the manner he lost.
MPs of the 11th Parliament will on Friday choose their next speaker and deputy speaker and the ruling NRM and opposition camps have named their candidates.
The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling NRM party has endorsed Government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa as the candidate for the deputy speaker job.
Former Kampala Resident City Commissioner (RCC) Hudu Hussein has spoken out after President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni transferred him to Yumbe in latest reshuffle.
Newly appointed Resident District Commissioners (RDCs), Resident City Commissioners (RCCs), their deputies and commissioners of the RDC secretariat are expected to pick their appointment letters next.
Anthony Akol, an opposition FDC MP, is leading his colleagues from Northern Uganda to meet the NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC), whose chairman is President Museveni, to discuss the position of deputy speaker of Parliament.
Opiyo Oloya, a Canadian-based educationist and a friend to the late Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah, has dismissed claims that the former speaker had been poisoned.