Mbale City Woman MP Lydia Wanyoto and other Female MPs have been promised minister jobs as Jacob Oboth Oboth and Thomas Tayebwa were endorsed.
The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC) endorsed defence and veteran affairs minister (also West Budama Central MP) and Thomas Tayebwa, the Ruhinda North MP (Mitooma District) for speaker and deputy speaker jobs, respectively.
The names of Jacob Oboth Oboth and Thomas Tayebwa were forwarded to the NRM parliamentary caucus sitting at State House Entebbe for endorsement.
When the NRM Electoral Commission (EC) called for expression of interest in the jobs of speaker and deputy speaker, a number of women applied to be NRM flag bearers.
Florence Asiimwe Akiiki, the District Woman MP for Masindi, had expressed interest in the speaker job.
Rose Obigah, the Woman MP for Terego; Catherine Lamwaka, the Woman MP for Omoro; Susan Nakawuki Nsambu, MP for Mawokota South in Mpigi; Mary Kamuli Kuteesa, MP for Mwenge South in Kyenjojo district; Lydia Mutende Wanyoto, Woman MP for Mbale; Peace Tibyaze, Woman MP for Jinja; and Everline Tete Chelangat, Woman MP for Bukwo had applied for the deputy speaker job.
Most of these female MPs had argued that a woman should hold one of the two top positions in parliament’s leadership: speaker or deputy speaker, as has been the case for most of the parliaments under Museveni.
Ignoring the gender balance rule, the MPs had argued, would reverse gains in women emancipation.
But the president and NRM national chairman, sources told The Pearl Times, convinced the female MPs that he would appoint some of them to cabinet, and that women would be represented in the executives.
Other Female MPs, sources further told The Pearl Times, would be appointed to head or be deputies of parliamentary committees.
First son, Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) chairman Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba recently said that Museveni had told him he had a plan for female MPs.
“As for our beautiful and gracious female MPs, supporters of PLU and NRM. The President assured me he has catered adequately for his female supporters,” noted Muhoozi.Â
As things stand now, based on the numbers that the ruling NRM party commands in parliament, Jacob Oboth Oboth is poised to be the speaker of the 12th parliament while Thomas Tayebwa will be his deputy.
You can see the former ministers who are expected to return to Museveni’s cabinet, even as Muhoozi pushes for the firing of old politicians from cabinet Here and There.
You can read our projections on the Vice President job for 2026-2031 Here, There and Over There.
