By Mulengera Reporters
At their Friday meeting, NRM MPs unanimously resolved to declare support for and readiness to retrospectively approve the deployment of UPDF soldiers in South Sudan to help shield that country’s vulnerable President Salva Kiir against being ousted by reneged forces.
According to GCW Hamson Obua, the ruling party MPs reflected on the fact that Kiir reached out begging the Ugandan big man for support and also on the fact that the two countries have had a close bilateral relationship dating back to the days of Col John Garang.
This resolution of the NRM caucus is being arrived at days after some MPs, led by Semujju Nganda, went on a ranting spree while demanding to know why prior Parliamentary approval hadn’t been sought and obtained before dispatching Ugandan soldiers to the volatile country.
The same deployment saw uncoordinated troop movement of some sort play out when the Defense Minister Oboth-Oboth said in Parliament he wasn’t aware of how the decision was arrived at.
This prompted one of the army spokespersons Chris Magezi to assert that there was no need for the Defense Minister, who is supposed to represent army views in Parliament, to be consulted and informed about each and every operational detail involving the armed forces of Uganda. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com). 
