By Mulengera Reporters
After weeks of uncertainty and ambiguity, CDF Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the President’s son who is also currently one of the most influential figures in the Museveni universe, has indicated his wish to have Speaker Anita Among and her Deputy Thomas Tayebwa continue leading Parliament up to 2031. And this has authoritatively been corroborated by none other than David Kabanda, the powerful Secretary General of Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), a political pressure group, which Gen MK leads.
In a Wednesday March 11th memo sent out to all PLU-leaning and MK-affiliated MPs-elect, the League’s Secretary General unequivocally states that he is conveying a message from his Principal Gen Muhoozi whose wish, he says, it is for the status quo at Parliament to continue.
Kabanda’s one-page memo, meant to guide the MPs-elect who are proud to look at MK for guidance and inspiration, shows that the CDF is pleased with the prudence and harmony with which the two younger leaders have led the legislature thus far, under the 11th Parliament, and would like to see consolidation of the same.
Kabanda’s latest memo will most likely leave DP President and Justice Minister Norbert Mao (a leading contender for the Speakership position) feeling deflated, alone & frightened because his supporters had all along construed absence of Gen MK’s overt endorsement of the incumbent as a signal that Gen Museveni’s son was possibly favoring the Loro-Pece MP-elect.
This ambivalence by MK was actually preventing many, especially new MPs, from overtly coming out to declare support for Tripple A, as admirers fondly refer to Anita Annet Among, the incumbent Speaker.
The same memo will also bring plenty of relief to people in the Anita Among political universe who were beginning to become dispirited after Andrew Mwenda, a leading PLU ideologue, over the weekend appeared on Charles Onyango-Obbo’s Bad Natives Podcast and vigorously scorned the Bukedea Woman MP while dwelling on her unsuitability for retention. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
