There’s brewing panic and tension in the National Unity Platform camp in parliament this afternoon as a section of MPs is mooting a motion to remove Mityana municipality legislator Francis Zaake Butebi as commissioner of parliament.
According to sources privy to this matter, Gulu West (Bardege-Layibi) division legislator Ojara Martin Mapenduzi is set to move the motion this afternoon on the request of Deputy Speaker Anita Among. Mapenduzi was nominated by NUP to head the Local Govt’s Accounts Committee.
MP Ojara Martin Mapenduzi (Opposition) is expected to move a motion for the removal of MP Francis Zaake as parliament commissioner! Mapenduzi was nominated by NUP to head the Local Govt’s Accounts Committee. CHECKMATE!
— Nelson Bwire kapo (@NellyKapo) February 15, 2022
Sources further indicate the on the order paper which is targeting Zaake for attacking Deputy Speaker Anita Among on his Twitter last Wednesday is based on Rule 110 of the parliament rules of procedure and section 5 of the Administration of parliament act which provide for the removal of a commissioner.
To my consternation, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament while presiding over a session of parliament controverted the finding of High Court in Suit No. 85 of 2020 that I was tortured by sarcastically stating but with the utmost level of recklessness that though tortured, pic.twitter.com/ehf4eMC1bb
— Zaake Francis (@ZaakeFrancis) February 9, 2022
