Kagoma North Member of Parliament (MP) who is also the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Alex Brandon Kintu has narrated how fellow legislators neglected their call of duty of discuss the controversial Sovereignty bill 2026 and instead decided to feast their eyes on women’s Nyash.
Since Friday last week, legislators sitting on the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs who were scrutinizing the Sovereignty bill camped at Munyonyo to discuss their findings and write their final report which was going to be tabled on the floor of parliament.
However, Kintu says that legislators especially men spent much of their time in windows piping while others moved out of the meeting to enjoy guests who were wiggling their nyash while showing off different fashion and beauty styles.
“Let the truth be told, you know Commonwealth Resort Hotel Munyonyo is a five-star hotel where people of all kind of styles go to enjoy life, and beautiful women are also there. So, after spending hours salivating, those legislators came back to the discussion room and started pressurizing the chairpersons of the committees to go back to clauses in the report which we had already finished discussing, that’s where all that commotion started from,” he said.
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Kintu claimed that in the course of their discussion, a section of legislators turned violent and exhibited indiscipline against the chairpersons of the committee to the extent where some of them grabbed the microphone from them and ran away with it claiming that they will not allow them to write their report since they had denied them the opportunity to go back and give their views on the already sorted clauses in the bill.
He further accused opposition legislators of using the controversial government bills to settle their political scores against their NRM counterparts by playing to the gallery to prove to the public that they are fighting for them and portray NRM legislators as people who are bringing laws meant to torment them.
He added that a section of the public has placed legislators on pressure by sending them threatening messages warning them that passing the bill will be seen as an act of them selling their country to save a few individuals who are scared of Ugandans having money in their pockets.
“In the record of parliament, apart from the Age Limit bill, there has never been a bill that has placed legislators on pressure like this Sovereignty bill. Why, because it touches people’s lives. That is why us as legislators, we need to be careful when dealing with it,” Kintu said.
The NRM legislators agreed to pass the bill even though their opposition colleagues rejected it through their minority report insisting that the bill is very dangerous.
