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Daily Monitor
Friday July 30 2021
A member of Parliament plays cards on an iPad. Parliament has procured new iPads estimated at Shs2.3b to be distributed to 529 Members of Parliament. PHOTO/NET.
Summary
Mr Chris Obore, the director of communications at Parliament, says the gadgets will be available in about two weeks from now.
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Parliament has procured new iPads estimated at Shs2.3b to be distributed to 529 Members of Parliament and the 26 ex-officio members of the 11th Parliament.
Sources in Parliament who spoke to Daily Monitor said the high-tech gadgets, which cost about Shs4.2m($1,200) each, arrived in the country on Wednesday evening.
Who is behind 7-year term scheme for elected leaders?
Sunday February 28 2021
Summary
Although it has never been part of the raft of radical reforms that Ndorwa East MP Wilfred Niwagaba proposed, the extension of the tenure of all political offices from five to seven years has become the biggest talking point around the Bill.
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Why are Members of Parliament (MPs) fascinated by the idea of increasing the term of office of elected leaders from five to seven years? Who is pushing the issue?
It has never been part of the raft of radical reforms that Ndorwa East MP Wilfred Niwagaba proposed while tabling the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2019, but the extension of the tenure of all political offices from five to seven years has become the biggest talking point around the Bill since the Speaker, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, closed debate on Thursday afternoon.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 27 2021
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah (left) and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga chairing plenary sessions of Parliament. Photo/ David Lubowa
Summary
Among the teams canvassing votes for the two rivals for the Speaker of Parliament job are MPs who were defeated in last month’s election but are still considered influential.
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Underground work for the Speaker of Parliament job is fiercely going on, with Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy Jacob Oulanyah having already formed core teams to reach out to MPs-elect ahead of the election scheduled for May 20.
Sources at Parliament told Saturday Monitor that Ms Kadaga’s team is headed by her personal assistant, Mr Peter Busiku, Bugiri Municipality MP and Jeema president Asuman Basalirwa, Bugabula South MP (NRM) Maurice Kibalya, Kalungu West MP Joseph Ssewungu, and outgoing Mukono South MP Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga.
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