Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has had a week to forget!

This follows the decision to push through controversial Shs10 billion to facilitate MPs to supervise the activities of Covid-19 national task force in their constituencies.

Despite the public anger on social and the wider media, Kadaga continued to defend her decision to facilitate MPs.

The speaker charged in one of her responses to the media: “I’ve also complained about attacks on Parliament by the Judiciary and the Executive. Further, I’ve told MPs to only adhere to the guidelines that I gave them; on how to expend the Shs20 million that each received.”

She went on to question: “Why aren’t you talking about the Shs59 million Parliament gave to the Office Of The Prime minister from which they are buying rotten milk and beans they are giving Ugandans.
Are you aware the milk they are giving Ugandans is expired?”

Kadaga appeared to have touched the population in a brutal manner. While many thought taxpayers money should have been put to proper use, by channeling it to the ministry of health and may be buy food for the poor, the speaker’s Parliament pushed to have some of it.

President Yoweri Museveni while addressing the nation on Tuesday, turned on the legislators lambasting them for not being ‘morally reprehensible’.

Museveni blasted: “It is morally reprehensible for MPs to give themselves money for personal use when the country is in such a crisis; totally unacceptable to me and the NRM. They have entered themselves into a trap and the best way out is to donate the money to the districts where they come from.”

Miria Matembe, former legislator and a human rights activist, has been squarely disappointed by speaker Kadaga.

Appearing on NTV political show Spot On, Matembe angrily charged: “I do not know what this UGX 10billion meant to Kadaga, maybe she is getting more than UGX 20 million. She has become so Incensed that she has even gone beyond.”

Matembe dismissed the speaker: “I want to tell Kadaga that instead of getting angry and defying everybody, she is not the owner of Uganda nor is she owning the state or Parliament. We’re the public who elect them to Parliament, she is holding that position on behalf of Parliament.”

The former legislator and a member of the rules and privileges committee attacked Kadaga: “The public out there doesn’t come out to speak like Kadaga has a forum where she speaks. Whenever people meet me on the street they ask me to stop MPs from getting the Shs10 billion.”

Matembe blasted: “The anger can eat up your brain and end up saying what you shouldn’t have said. What Kadaga said that the judge conspired with Karuhanga is terrible.”

She reminded Kadaga: “Speaker Kadaga was saying that the house is being attacked by the Executive, the Judiciary and forgetting that the first attacker was the public.”

Matembe castigated MPs: “Parliamentarians are well paid and they are the people whose salary won’t fail to be paid in this lockdown”, Dr Miria Matembe makes a case against the UGX 10 Bn given to MPs as facilitation in the fight against COVID-19

The human rights activist and a lawyer, prayed: “I hope this Covid-19 brings a change amongst Ugandans and in Africa at large.”