Members sitting on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) top organ the Central Executive Committee (CEC) and parliamentary caucus were shocked as President Museveni narrated how he warned embattled former Speaker of Parliament Annet Anita Among on having political fights with fellow party leaders and government officials.
Museveni made the revelation minutes after outgoing government chief whip Denis Obua and Thomas Tayebwa the newly elected deputy speaker’s testimony on how Among has been using her influence to silence them on issues concerning corruption and abuse of office in parliament.
The whole debate started when Aringa South legislator Alioni Odria castigated the President and other CEC members for retaining Tayebwa as deputy speaker yet his former boss Among was placed under investigation and stopped from contesting again for speakership.
He told the meeting that on several occasions, him together with other legislators raised the alarm concerning the corruption within parliamentary leadership but they were blocked and stopped from debating the said allegations on the floor of parliament.
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State House sources told Ono Bwino that the President asked Tayebwa to defend himself before NRM caucus endorses him.
Tayebwa humbly started with apologising to CEC members, caucus members and entire country over the bad leadership exhibited in parliament when he was a deputy speaker. But he also defended himself and told the meeting that after learning about mistakes his boss Among was making, he engaged Hamson Obua on how to deal with the vice.
He added that one of the shocking mistakes Among made was to direct the withdraw of money which was budgeted to run parliamentary committees and it was taken to her office which affected parliament’s performance especially on doing its oversight role because legislators did not have money.
Sources said that through the ongoing investigations against corruption and related crimes against Among, the President established that the said money which was withdrawn from the committees was used by Among to enrich herself and to cover her crimes. She funded opposition vocal legislators with trips abroad and solved their personal financial crises.
Tayebwa told the State House meeting that even though he was not happy with the way his boss was running parliament, he had nothing to do because he was just a deputy speaker, who was supposed to work on her directive and orders.
However, the former Executive Director of Uganda Media Centre Ofwono Opondo claims that when he criticised the way Among and Tayebwa were running parliament especially when they attacked the media for asking tough questions on managing public funds, Among and Tayebwa reported him to the President alleging that he is fighting them.
It is alleged the President advised them to talk to Ofwono and understand why he was attacking them.
Ofwono admitted that he engaged both Tayebwa and Among and sources claim that the fruits of the said engagement paved way for Ofwono to go through unopposed as MP for the elderly in Eastern Uganda.
When the president gave Obua an opportunity to comment on Tayebwa’s statements concerning Among’s threats, he confirmed noting that Among was bitter after learning that Tayebwa had engaged him in a discussion concerning the bad way she was managing parliament.
She thus declared a political war on him.
He divulged that Among supported Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) candidate Fred Jalameso who defeated him and became the Ajuri County MP in the January 2026 polls.
Sources claim that Museveni supported all the allegations Tayebwa and Obua made against Among revealing that he severally warned her on creating political fights with fellow leaders and even advised her to concentrate on fighting poverty and ideological mind change among Ugandans.
During the 2026 presidential campaigns, Among organized a meeting of all NRM local leaders in Busoga and when President Museveni attended, he was not happy with former Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga and other powerful NRM leaders in Busoga for missing the meeting.
The president warned Among to desist from creating fights with fellow leaders revealing that the reason why he has been a President for more than forty years is because he is humble.
The President said that on the way to Busoga, he engaged Kadaga and other leaders on why they missed the meeting, and Kadaga told him that he was not invited.
Museveni further responded to concerns raised by NRM female legislators on not endorsing one of them to lead parliament saying that previously when he placed a lot of trust in one of them, they betrayed him by using government offices to fight cheap personal political wars, use public money to buy expensive clothes and waste much of the time beautifying themselves.
The President however promised to consider women and give them juicy jobs in his coming cabinet.
He pleaded with them to support CEC endorsement of both Jacob Oboth-Oboth as a speaker of parliament and Tayebwa as deputy and vote for them which they did.
The President also pleaded with Alioni and other legislators who wanted to contest against Oboth-Oboth and Tayebwa to withdraw from the race and support the party official candidates.
Sources said that they all pleaded with the President to consider them when appointing his new cabinet or assign them to chair juicy parliamentary committees which the president promise to do.
