By Sam Mwesigye
The Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda, Anita Among, has said that she has one term remaining to serve as Speaker.
This despite allegations of corruption and abuse of office.
She made the remarks during the opening of the Shs2.7Bn St. Charles Lwanga Kigarama Church that is said to have been built through funds raised by her deputy, Thomas Tayebwa, and his friends from the business community. The ceremony also coincided with the Thanksgiving held to celebrate 80 years of Daudi Bangirana, father to Deputy Speaker Tayebwa, in Mitooma district.
Among has revealed that she has one term left to serve as Speaker of Parliament and will later hand over power because there is no reason for clinging onto power.
“As a Deputy Speaker, he (Thomas Tayebwa) is one Deputy Speaker who knows what his role is; he is so down to earth and very social. We want to thank you people of Mitooma, and we want to request that you kindly bring back Tayebwa to Parliament. I only have one term to serve; when I finish serving my term, I give it to Tayebwa to continue because you don’t need to cling on power. I have one term to go, then I hand it over to him,” said Among.
On Tuesday this week, the young people launched a massive anti-corruption protest. They called on AMong to resign. Over 100 protesters were arrested.
