Government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa has castigated his colleagues from northern Uganda for pushing for the ring-fencing of the position of the new Speaker.
Responding to a resolution by the Greater North MPs that the position of the late Jacob Oulanyah’s successor be reserved for the region, Tayebwa warned against tribal talk.
Tayebwa said if the same MPs were pushing for a candid agenda, they wouldn’t have allowed many candidates from the same region to contest for the same position.
While expressing interest for the top seat at parliament during NRM process northern Uganda presented more than four candidates which Tayebwa questions noting that these are voices of doom and they must be condemned and they should go to hell.
The NRM top organ last evening endorsed Deputy Speaker Anita Among as their flag bearer for the Speakership race to replace Oulanyah who died in the US at the weekend.
On Tuesday, while speaking to the media at Parliament, members of the Greater North Parliamentary Forum came up with resolutions indicating that the position, which had been “given” to the North, had prematurely ended and they wanted continuity.
They threatened to not attend the session to elect the speaker if one of their own is not endorsed by NRM CEC.
This is not the first time a region is bringing up such a suggestion as during the burial of former Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Mutebile, local leaders from western region made comments indicating that the position be ring-fenced for the Bakiga.
