M7 campaigns in Jinja, Meets Mps Friday

Local News — 08 February 2012

President Museveni has asked Speaker Rebecca Kadaga to inform Members of Parliament that he’ll meet them on Friday to explain why he ordered the signing of oil deals. The president who is currently in Jinja to canvass for votes as the Jinja East By-election draws near is expected explain the move in which the government signed a multibillion dollar agreement with the UK’s Tullow Oil.

Meanwhile, the anti homosexuality bill has received overwhelming support in Ugandan parliament today. The mover of the bill, Honorable David Bahati was heroically welcomed as the stepped forward to the floor of parliament to move the bill.

When the speaker of parliament called on Mr Bahati to read the bill, most of the members of parliament began chanting “Our Bill, Our Bill”. The members in th house continued cheering Mr Bahati as he read the bill.

The US and Britain recently came out to stress that all foreign aid will be tied to “LGBT” rights where countries which do not support the rights of homosexuals, Lesbians and Bisexuals will not qualify for financial aid.

The second Deputy Prime minister has proposed that parents who are still productive should produce a maximum of three to four children that they can ably care for to cope with the toughening economic times.

Henry Muganwa Kajura, who is also the public service minister, wonders how parents who have produced more than four children will look after them.

The minister has made the remarks while receiving a draft report of the inter-ministerial task force of the public service pension reform. Kajura lamented that many Ugandans lack work ethics. He urged the media to spread the gospel of productivity among the populace instead of keep the notion that government will provide for them.

He said that government was making great efforts to solve problems of lower electricity supply and build other infrastructure to propel development.