{"id":7162,"date":"2021-03-27T18:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T16:42:11","slug":"speaker-race-kadaga-launches-oulanyah-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/speaker-race-kadaga-launches-oulanyah-watches","title":{"rendered":"Speaker race: Kadaga launches, Oulanyah watches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has gone out full-blown to campaign to keep her job while her deputy Jacob Oulanyah has stuck to covert canvassing and insists the ruling party will have the final say.<\/p>\n

After the Easter holidays, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) MPs-elect for the 11th Parliament are expected to have a retreat at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi District, where they will be addressed by President Museveni.<\/p>\n

Although on paper the retreat, which will take place after the MPs-elect have undergone a quarantine in Entebbe, has been presented as \u201can initiation procedure\u201d, the debate of who will be the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament is expected to take centre stage. Mr Jacob Oulanyah, who has been Deputy Speaker for the last 10 years, and now wants to replace Ms Rebecca Kadaga, according to sources within his camp, is going to use the Kyankwanzi sanctuary to concretise his support among the NRM diehards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to use the retreat to just increase our support because we have already done a lot of mobilisation,\u201d Mr Linos Ngompek, the Kibanda North MP-elect, who is one of the top Oulanyah mobilisers, said. \u201cWe are going to reach out to more Woman MPs because it seems that is where we might have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Oulanyah\u2019s mobilisation has been more covert than overt, with his team hardly coming out to say as much as those who back Ms Kadaga have. The contrast is even more pronounced going by the way the two principals have conducted their campaigns so far. Ms Kadaga used the occasion of a function to launch her campaigns at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala to also launch a tirade against Mr Oulanyah, who she accused of ducking handling crucial and controversial business in the House.<\/p>\n

She picked on the handling of the Bill that led to the removal of age limits for presidential candidates, which she accuses Mr Oulanyah of dodging and singles out as her biggest accomplishment for this term.Asked to respond to Ms Kadaga\u2019s accusations, Mr Oulanyah declined the seeming invitation to a verbal war, in some cases explaining himself while insisting that the decision of who will be the next Speaker will be made by their party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are lies\u201d is all he said when asked to respond to Ms Kadaga\u2019s barbs about him ducking controversial business. While appearing on NBS Television\u2019s Frontline programme on Thursday night, Mr Oulanyah stuck to the same line, placing his faith in the party and refusing to say what he would do if the party processes decided against him being Speaker. Away from the cameras, however, Mr Oulanyah and his team remain optimistic that this is his time since Ms Kadaga has served 10 years, which some NRM members say is what has been set as the limit.<\/p>\n

When Mr Oulanyah tried to be Speaker five years ago, Ms Kadaga accused him of being impatient, saying he needed to wait for her to serve a second term just as she waited for now Vice President Edward Ssekandi to serve 10 years before she replaced him as Speaker. This is a line to which Mr Oulanyah is keen to hold Ms Kadaga and is working the party organs to back him on. NRM leaders have had a problem explaining who exactly they will support for the post of Speaker, and this manifested last weekend when the party\u2019s secretary general, Ms Justine Lumumba, while commissioning the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the eastern district of Mayuge, said how the party will support candidates on merit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been supporting Ms Kadaga on merit not because she comes from Busoga sub-region,\u201d Ms Lumumba explained after being asked by one of the speakers to come out explicitly and show how the party is backing Ms Kadaga. \u201cEven this time, the one we shall be supporting will be because of merit, not because of his or her region.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time the anticipated Kyankwanzi retreat is held, the animosity between the two warring camps is expected to have reached a fever pitch, with Ms Kadaga having launched her campaign team.Although Mr Oulanyah has over the years insisted that the Speaker had tried to duck presiding over the belligerent sessions, Ms Kadaga, at the launch of her campaign, came with another narrative basically characterising her deputy as a coward.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, it started when I was out of the country, I was in America, then on my way back, I stopped in the UK, The Teso [Iteso] had invited me with their king [chief] to speak to [the Iteso] in the diaspora,\u201d Ms Kadaga explained. \u201cWhile I was there, my deputy rang me, \u2018come back since you know there is something which I can\u2019t handle\u2019. I said what do you mean you can\u2019t handle? He said \u2018no. …no\u2026 you come back\u2019. I said I am doing some work here but he said \u2018it is very urgent and I am not able to manage\u2019. So I came. I came straight into the fire. For two weeks, he had failed to hold Parliament\u2026 he did not want to handle the age limit. He was waiting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is almost four years since the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) soldiers attacked a parliamentary session that was debating the lifting of the presidential age limits and in the process beat up mainly Opposition MPs. Ms Kadaga, who chaired the session, seems to know that wounds are yet to heal and she sought to cast herself as a heroine who had nothing to do with the onslaught which she said happened while her deputy had taken cover. \u201cThe first day we did battle. Members tried to stop us from working, I left them. We came back the second day; they did something. People came with pistols but I said no, we need to finish with this matter. So I handled it. My deputy ran away. He ran away. He ran away. Out of the country. Far away.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Ms Kadaga didn\u2019t bother to explain was that she suspended six Opposition MPs, accusing them of fomenting trouble in the House. The suspended MPs \u2013 Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda (Kira Municipality), Allan Ssewanyana (Makindye West), Gerald Karuhanga (Ntungamo Municipality), Jonathan Odur (Erute County South, Anthony Akol (Kilak North County ) and Mubarak Manyangwa (Kawempe South) \u2013 responded by suing Ms Kadaga at the High Court\u2019s Civil Division, saying her acts were illegal and should not be repeated in future. The High Court declined to handle the matter, telling the MPs to take their case to the Constitutional Court for constitutional interpretation.<\/p>\n

Ms Kadaga has also moved not only to dismiss the suggestion that her party\u2019s Central Executive Committee (CEC) will have the final say on who will be the Speaker of the 11th Parliament and has also rolled out a plan to court the political opposition.Despite the fact that Ms Kadaga has forged an alliance with MPs from various political parties and Independents, Mr Oulanyah\u2019s campaign machinery, which is mainly banking on the NRM support, insists they are out to shock the Speaker. \u201cYou can see 66 people attended the launch and yet the mobilisation was done from last week. So people know what to do. Wait and see the surprise,\u201d Mr Yorke Alioni Odria, the MP-elect for Aringa South constituency, said. \u201cShe has done her part. She has been in Parliament for 30 years. She has been Deputy Speaker for 10 years. She has been Speaker for 10 years. That\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Mr Oulanyah tried to challenge for the speakership in 2016, Ms Kadaga implored her party to instead back her such that they are in tandem with the previous precedent which had seen Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, the current Vice President, who served as Speaker for 10 years. \u201cI think the party should be consistent,\u201d Ms Kadaga said five years ago. \u201cThey were able to give my predecessor 10 years. They shouldn\u2019t change the rules because it\u2019s me. They should also be consistent. The President and Vice President are men. The Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice are men. Where do they want the women to go? We are citizens of this country and we must serve our space and we shall not allow anybody to push us out.\u201d<\/p>\n

MrJacob Oulanyah. The Omoro County MP, who has been Deputy Speaker for 10 years, now wants to be Speaker. PHOTO\/DAVID LUBOWA<\/p>\n

The MPs now canvassing votes for Mr Oulanyah believe it is time for Ms Kadaga to respect her word.\u201cWhen Mr Oulanyah tried to stand during the last term, CEC sat him down and implored him to let her have her second term. He respected it with humility. Now it is his turn. He has been elected as the [NRM] vice-chairperson for northern Uganda,\u201d Mr Odria said. He added: \u201cHe moved in every district of the north and West Nile region. He moved to every radio station and he told the people the achievements of the government, which they had never known and he delivered the northern region. Without the vote of the north and West Nile region, the President wasn\u2019t going to win. Why not reward him? What has Kadaga done? She didn\u2019t deliver the eastern region, not even Busoga.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kadaga and the OppositionOn Thursday morning, Ms Kadaga\u2019s campaign team dispatched messages to the MPs-elect attached to the Opposition\u2019s biggest parties: National Unity Platform (NUP), which has 61 MPs, and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), which has 33 MPs, to attend her campaign launch. Indeed, NUP\u2019s Bashir Kazibwe Mbaziira, who ousted FDC\u2019s Mubarak Munyagwa from the Kawempe South seat, journalist-turned politician Joyce Bagala, who ousted Information minister Judith Nabakooba from the Mityana Woman MP seat, Christine Kaaya Nakimweero, who defeated NRM\u2019s chief whip Ruth.<\/p>\n

Nankabirwa for the Kiboga Woman MP slot and Mr David Lukyamuzi Kalwanga, who retained his Busujju County seat, attended the meeting and indicated their willingness to support Ms Kadaga. Officially, NUP hasn\u2019t declared who precisely they are going to support in this race, which has been complicated by the decision by FDC\u2019s Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda (Kira Municipality) to throw his hat in the race, saying since he belongs to the Opposition\u2019s FDC, it is quiet automatic that all Opposition-leaning MPs will be voting for him since Mr Oulanyah and Ms Kadaga belong to the ruling party. NUP spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, who is the MP-elect for the newly-created Nakawa West constituency, was among those who received Ms Kadaga\u2019s invitation but due to what he called \u201cother commitments\u201d, he could not attend. \u201cIt is true I received the message calling me for the meeting, although they never indicated why we were being called,\u201d Mr Ssenyonyi said. \u201cBut we are yet to decide on who we shall support for the Speakership. We shall be telling you who we shall be supporting at an appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Mr Ssenyonyi claims they are yet to make a decision, sources say NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has already surreptitiously given NUP MP-elect the green light to vote Ms Kadaga. Of the clearest indication that NUP supports Ms Kadaga is the fact that Jeema party president Asuman Basalirwa, who formed a coalition with NUP during elections, has openly supported Ms Kadaga.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m team Kadaga,\u201d Mr Basalirwa, the Bugiri Municipality MP, recently said on the floor of the House. Mr Kyagulanyi\u2019s relationship with Ms Kadaga has been subject to much speculation and it all started last year when the singer\u2013turned-politician told voters in Ms Kadaga\u2019s home district of Kamuli how the Speaker is his distant auntie and that once he is elected as President, Ms Kadaga will be tapped for a position in the imagined NUP government. \u201cPlease tell our Speaker, who is also our \u2018aunt\u2019, that this is not about family, this is real.Tell her that she is good but we can give her an even bigger role. I will give her a better role in my government,\u201d Mr Kyagulanyi said in December last year. After attending Ms Kadaga\u2019s meeting, Mr Kalwanga told journalists that the strongest signal that NUP was backing Ms Kadaga was the fact that Mr Ssenyonyi was among those who were expected to attend and his name was read out by the event\u2019s organisers.<\/p>\n

In respect to the FDC, Ms Cecilia Ogwal (Dokolo Woman MP) and Mr Francis Mwijukye (Buhweju County) attended Ms Kadaga\u2019s meeting, but also it seems she has the support of other FDC MPs, including Mr Godfrey Atkins Katusabe (Bukonzo County West), Mr Harold Tonny Muhindo (Bukonzo County East) and Dr Timothy Lusala Batuwa (Jinja South West). It remains to be seen how FDC will react to this but Mr Ssemujju had indicated earlier that any Opposition MP who supports anyone from the NRM for Speakership would mean that he or she is a mole.<\/p>\n

In her speech on Wednesday, which was clearly intended to win over the Opposition, Ms Kadaga cast herself as an independent person, who normally goes beyond the interests of the NRM, her party. \u201cI represent the will of the people,\u201d she said. \u201cMany times, I have had to stand between the State and the population. For me, I am guided by the interests of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite claiming that she acted as a bulwark between the independence of Parliament and the overreaches of Mr Museveni when she was campaigning to be re-elected as NRM\u2019s second national vice-chairperson last year, Ms Kadaga said she deserves the position because she acted as an enabler of Mr Museveni\u2019s move to edit the presidential age limit clause in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn very difficult circumstances, I facilitated the amendment of the Constitution under Article 102 to enable continuity of the NRM ideology, but most importantly, our national chairperson to continue leading the country after the end of the present term. I have demonstrated my commitment to the party throughout\u2026I have enacted all the necessary legislation and I have been available for work in the party throughout,\u201d Ms Kadaga told the NRM\u2019s CEC at State House Entebbe.<\/p>\n

Ms Kadaga\u2019s campaign team also reflects her key message: unifier of the ruling NRM and the Opposition. It has an NRM team led by Mr Alex Byarugaba (Isingiro South), Mr Gabriel Okoro (Okoro County), Ms Sarah Opendi (Tororo Woman), Mr Robert Migadde (Buvuma Islands) and Mr Geoffrey (Busia Municipality). Those from the Opposition are FDC\u2019s Ogwal, and Mr Gilbert Olanya (Kilak County).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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