On today’s order paper, business consisted of a review of the Rules committee’s efforts to find out who instigated the chaos last week as well as the oil bills and finance related matters.
According to spokeswoman Helen Kawesa, the Parliament was able to consider the Accountants Bill today which was near the end of today’s agenda. However, the oil bills are going to be on the agenda for tomorrow along with a memorial for a former member of Parliament who died recently. Because of these matters, she was not sure that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill would come up tomorrow.
It appears that some of the delays anticipated may not materialize. Although one cannot be sure, it seems possible that the anti-gay bill could come up this week.
If it isn’t tomorrow, it could be Thursday (or Friday is a plenary session is fitted in that day).
But I think we should remember that a vote for the Bill in the Parliament is not necessarily the end of the matter in Uganda. And, in terms of what could follow outside Uganda, it could well be just the beginning. I suspect that some MPs might think (or hope) that passing the Bill will mean that international opposition will ‘melt away’ as people simply lie down and ‘accept’ a new ‘status quo’. If they do, they are probably somewhat mistaken.
Looks like another storm may be brewing as Ministers blame Kadaga for last week’s chaos: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Ministers-say-Kadaga-to-blame-for-oil-chaos/-/688334/1635172/-/opqg2tz/-/index.html
How this might affect Kadaga’s KKKristmas programme is unclear.
Meanwhile FB seems to saying that it might block UG because of Bahati-Kadaga: http://www.ghafla.co.ke/news/events/item/5736-facebook-threatens-to-block-uganda-from-its-network
Bad idea! FB has been very useful for the dissemination of information and the promotion of discussion.
Looks like it’s just the honouring of Hon. Zabasaija RIP today.
And the Rules Committee wants more time: http://www.parliament.go.ug/new/index.php/about-parliament/parliamentary-news/139-rules-committee-seeks-to-invite-221-mps
Again, how this might affect K’s KKK is unclear.