Speaker among has promised to hold talks with Special Forces Command, the elite force offerings security to the Presidency, not to confiscate phones and iPads of MPs, and stop compulsory COVID tests whenever they are meeting President Museveni, saying such actions inconvenience MPs.
“But also, the State of Nation Address is your function, it is a parliament function. We are only inviting the president to address us and start the next session of our sitting and we can agree that we are waiving off COVID- testing after all, the President will be sitting far, but it will look bad for you not to come for your own function. We will request SFC that our MPs don’t use papers we gave them iPads which they use day to day and we are also not comfortable with COVID-19, we will talk to them, I mean, they are human beings,” said Among.
Her remarks followed concern raised by Joseph Ssewungu (Kalungu West) who wondered why MPs are still being forced to take COVID-tests whenever they are to meet President Museveni, and
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