By KT Reporter
It’s increasingly becoming clear that Betty Nambooze will stop at nothing in her efforts to appease Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu the NUP president in order to secure reelection as Mukono Municipality MP.
She also badly wants to be considered for either the position of LoP or that of NUP Deputy President Buganda region after the 2026 elections has been concluded.
In Mukono, many fellow leaders have fallen out with her and some have even have had to embrace Mathias Mpuuga because they are tired of being persecuted by Nambooze inside NUP while hiding behind the back of Bobi Wine.
So, the need to please Bobi Wine a short while ago forced Nambooze to become even blind to the consequences that can result from the provocative stuff she recklessly said on Radio Simba’s Lutindo programme on Tuesday especially about Speaker Anita Among. She told Evans Walusimbi, the moderator, that Anita Among (who many MPs fear to criticise) hadn’t done a good job as Speaker compared to her predecessor Rebecca Kadaga.
She said that Kadaga was more tolerant than Among adding that there is no way the EC would be mistreating NUP if Kadaga was still Speaker. She claimed that absence of competitive grassroot elections in NUP isn’t because Bobi Wine is a dictator who prefers appointing flag bearers but because the EC had refused to gazette their new constitution under which elections can be permitted.
She said they are now stuck with Kibalama’s Constitution which doesn’t provide for internal elections. Nambooze made it clear they would have wanted to use Parliament to pressurise the electoral commission as NUP MPs but Anita Among can’t allow them to criticise the EC unlike Kadaga who allowed debate on anything.
Still determined to criticise Among who many fear to attack, Nambooze well knowing that taking such risk can appease Kyagulanyi and buy her favors, went ahead to claim that the Bukedea Woman MP is still the speaker of parliament because the 11th parliament is full of MPs who are cowardly and unserious.
That the travel sanctions the UK and US governments put on her were enough to disqualify Among from the office of speaker but nothing of the sort ever happened because MPs don’t measure up to the task at hand.
She wondered why MPs couldn’t even insist on the matter being debated on the floor yet its clear there is no way Among can continue to be effective as the speaker when she can’t travel to certain parts of the globe.
Nambooze said that at least there should have been a debate on the matter which ought to have ended in MPs passing a resolution urging her to vacate or declaring to stand in solidarity with her. That by failing to do either of these, the MPs from whom not much should be expected, let down people they represent.
Nambooze also spoke about the circumstances under which Sekikubo’s motion to force Mathias Mpuuga out of the parliamentary commission was aborted. Nambooze said MPs let down Sekikubo when they left him battle Anita Among alone as if this was a personal matter about him as a person.
That the 180 MPs who gave signatures should have stood up each time Sekikubo asked the hard questions to back him up and make it clear to Among that this was their matter and not Sekikubo’s alone. Nambooze concluded that they as MPs let down Sekikubo.
That she recently confronted Sekikubo to ask about what came of their signatures and he told her he was equally confused and feeling betrayed. She says that she advised him to resurrect the matter by calling a meeting of all the 180 MPs who gave him signatures and forge some way forward in order to signal Among that they mean business and won’t be intimidated off the war against corruption. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
