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Minister Otafiire grilled for ‘defying’ Parliament on electoral reforms

GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior CorrespondentbyGEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
January 29, 2019
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Speaker of Parliament on Tuesday, Jan 29 tasked the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire to clarify his allegations that he is being hoodwinked into drafting the electoral reforms bill (FILE PHOTO),

PARLIAMENT – Speaker of Parliament on Tuesday afternoon tasked the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire, to clarify claims he made at the weekend that he would not be rushed into drafting a Bill on electoral reforms.

Gen Otafire, who was speaking in his home district of Mitooma in western Uganda at the weekend said that he would not be rushed into presenting electoral reforms and that those in a hurry should wait a little longer.

And raising a matter of urgent national importance in Parliament on Tuesday, Theodore Sekikubo (Lwemiyaga) asked the Speaker to punish Otafiire who he accused of desecrating the decorum of the National Assembly by addressing the media on parliamentary matters at his home.

“For the minister to sit at is home and address the media at his home which is in a way is betray the integrity and decorum of parliament is very unacceptable not only for me but to every member of this House,” said Mr Sekikubo.

In response, Ms Kadaga asked the minister to explain the allegations.

“I would like to know whether it is true that you told me off. You told the Speaker that ‘I am not in hurry;’ there is a command of the Supreme Court which has not been answered and the request of this house has not been answered.”

In response, a humble Gen Otafiire said: “I am cognizant of the responsibilities placed on my shoulders to deliver laws that will ensure good governance to this country. When I said I was not in a hurry, it was in response to a question that indicated that I ought to jump the gun and do things am not supposed to do.”

He added, “I recall, I said I am duty bound to consult the stakeholders of this country, who are the citizens, and I shall do so by constituting a constitutional review commission which will bring the ideas and views of the citizens which will form the nexus for requisite law reforms. Nobody should impute that I take the liberty to sit at my house and reply arrogantly to the dictate of the Speaker of this House, which speaker I hold in high esteem.”

However, Mr Kassiano Wadri (Arua Municipality) asked the minister to indicate the timeline for the release of the reforms.

In response, Gen Otafiire said he needed time for compile them.

“I am not going to stampede Parliament into unresearched, unqualified reforms and where there is no democratic participation of the people of Uganda. I am going to work according to my pace and capacity, and the capacity of the people of Uganda.”

However, Kadaga directed Otafiire to follow the directives of the Supreme Court on the matter.

“Now, please separate the constitutional reviews from the electoral laws; there are directives of the Supreme Court that were supposed to have been held in two years,” she told the minister.

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