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KAMPALA, (UG): The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Anita Among has declined a letter from Nandala Mafabi, the FDC Secretary General in which he sought to replace Kira Municipality legislator Hon Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda as the opposition party’s chief whip in Parliament.
Nandala in a letter addressed to the Speaker last week announced on behalf of FDC that the party had resolved to appoint replace Ssemujju with Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi.
MP Yusuf Nsibambi who is the new FDC Whip in Parliament. He says, he has no problem with serving the Party in the new Capacity.Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/KMA Updates.
Now in a letter dated August 16 responding to Mafabi, Ms Among stated that she received a petition from FDC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) members saying Ssemujju’s replacement was “done in violation of the internal rules and procedures of the party.”
Mp Ssemujju Nganda.FDC photo.
Ms Among who herself is a former FDC stalwart turned yellow says the disgruntled party members argued that there wasn’t any decision of NEC or delegates conference upon which a decision would be made and that Mafabi’s action was illegal.
She added that said Mafabi did not refer to any party meeting held by FDC to replace Ssemujju and therefore she cannot honour her request going forward.
MP Mwijukye Francis says Aameeting should be organized to elect MP Yusuf Nsibambi or reinstate Semujju Nganda.Mwijukye says Nandala Mafabi has no Powers.Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/KMA Updates.
“I am therefore unable to effect your communication until these matters raised by the petitioners have been resolved and a communication made to that effect to avoid legal consequences of the same and disruption of Parliament business,” Ms Among stated.
At the fine of filing this report, Nandala was yet to speak out on the Speaker’s response and all efforts to reach him were futile as repeated calls from this reporter went unanswered.
Yusuf Nsibambi was expected to take over the role of the FDC party chief whip, but with the Speaker’s response to Nandala, it remains to be seen if the FDC will have to summon NEC members for a formal suspension of Ssemujju.
Ssemujju himself had last week protested his sacking from the position of Chief Whip, saying he was elected by the FDC National Executive Committee but later argued that the position itself comes with nothing that the title.
“Amuriat and Nandala have no right to sack me like they are purporting. If they want it so much, I will give it to them. They didn’t even have to sack me like they are purporting because my major responsibility is to represent the people of Kira Municipality,” a soft-spoken Ssemujju told journalists last week.