By Mulengera Reporters
Anita Among has this Wednesday afternoon called upon fellow MPs to turn to God and pray hard while deliberately reflecting on the fact that fallen Kalangala Woman MP Hellen Nakimuli is the 7th legislator to die during the life of the 12th Parliament (2021-2026). Among was delivering her communication from Chair, as MPs prepared to commence the tribute-paying session as the well-attended session.
She described Nakimuli as a great energetic leader who was always prepared to walk across the political aisle in order to find common ground, including with colleagues from the ruling NRM party even when she belonged to NUP.
She said Nakimuli had a lot of Ubuntu in her and as such never discriminated fellow MPs simply because they subscribe to NRM or any other political party other than her own NUP. She recalled recently when Nakimuli drove to Buyende to spend a night with them when she lost her own mother-in-law. She said this demonstrated the broad-mindedness Nakimuli was synonymous with.
Among also informed the session that Nakimuli had left one child, a girl named Meraline who is an S1 student at Kibuli SS. She promised continuous solidarity with and support towards Nakimuli’s family. The Speaker had just had completed a meeting with the deceased’s parents who were also part of the tribute-paying session.
She also revealed that the postmortem report had been handed over to Parliament by a team of doctors from the hospital where she died from on Sunday and that this was during an intense meeting inside Parliamentary buildings, which was attended by LoP Joel Ssenyonyi among others.
Anita Among also reflected on social media speculation dedicated to creating conspiracy theories regarding the circumstances under which Nakimuli died. She warned MPs to behave like the grownup adults that they are and avoid fuelling such speculation by making unfounded allegations and claims while pointing fingers during the tribute-paying session she was about to preside over.
Among warned that engaging in such inflammatory and misleading speculation by leaders at the level of MPs would bring Hellen Nakimuli’s otherwise good name into disrepute. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
