‘You’re Too Sleepy!’- LoP Mpuuga Exposed As Speaker Among Orders Probe Joel Senyonyi’s Led COSASE

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Yesterday, the Speaker of Parliament Anita Among ordered a value-for-money audit on the Committee of Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises – COSASE accusing its leadership of underperformance.

Among on Wednesday January 18, 2023 revealed that out of 107 entities referred to the Committee for further probe following the recommendation of the Auditor General for the Financial Year 2020/2021, they were only able to scrutinize the operations of four entities.

The four entities the Committee probed included; Uganda Railways Corporation – URC, Uganda Land Commission – ULC, Uganda National Airlines Company Limited, and the Uganda National Roads Authorities – UNRA.

Among accused the Committee led by Joel Ssenyonyi, who is also the Nakawa West Member of Parliament of ‘laziness’ thus failing to probe the various entities recommended by the Auditor General within the six months.

Among also directed the House to adopt all the recommendations of all the reports under COSASE including an investigation on the Uganda National Airlines Company Limited.

However, this didn’t go well within the opposition corridors, reports coming in reveal that that whereas the ruling party-NRM side came up with a workplan for all it’s Chairpersons heading parliament committees for ease of work, the opposition side led by Mathias Mpuuga allegedly slept on this issue.

As we report, the opposition is in total disbelief that it’s Cosase is ranked the top sleeping committee among committees of the house.

“Big talking, less work! Why shame this house? The speaker had no option but to adopt the AG reports as they are since COSASE has become unserious. It’s not the first time this is being done because in the last parliament, it was the same thing that was done in a motion moved by hon. Nandala Mafabi” says an Inspector.

Inspectors said the actual reasons the speaker had to swing the decision were two!

The first was the fact that donors were accusing parliament and government in general of shielding crooks in government by failing to act on accountability queries raised by the Auditor General.

Secondly, it was reported that Ssenyonyi and his committee seemed to be in a secret league to aid thieves in government go Scot-free as some of the possible key witnesses die in the process of delayed investigations.

“We have never seen a workplan from these people. We want the LoP to tell us what he tells these Chairpersons of committees headed by the opposition. Does he have any? The NRM chairpersons have got these workplans as guided by the Chief whip. What is LoP doing? Why is Cosase letting parliament down on pursuing those involved in misappropriation of government funds and abuse of office? What does the public want the speaker to do? She had no option but to freeze all it’s work and adopt the reports as they came to parliament” a senior inspector added.

We have learnt that Cosase is one of the heavily funded committees that speaker Among wonders what they do with those funds allocated to them.

“They spend funds on trips. They give less priority to their responsibilities in the house. We’re not here to represent ourselves, but the public. The public needs value for money which unfortunately, Cosase seems to be against” says a top inspector.

As if to skin him more, another member who heads the local government accountability committee Martin Ojara Mapenduzi said the speaker’s decision to adopt the AG reports as they came wasn’t strange as it also happened in the last parliament.

“There’s a precedent set in the 10th parliament. We all know that justice delayed is justice denied. We need to adhere to our rules and also the constitution. These AG audit reports have a time frame within which action should be taken on them” he says.

The 10th parliament on June 30 2020 adopted a motion moved by then PAC chairperson Nandala Mafabi allowing parliament to adopt all the reports of the AG that had not been considered by the accountability committees without scruitiny but consider generalized committee recommendations. The motion was meant to clear case backlog in order to allow the new parliament begin on a fresh footing, meaning Among’s latest action is guided by a precedent set by her predecessors.

Meanwhile, the speaker this morning received the new AG reports for the year ended June 2022 in what seems to be a new lease of life to Cosase to continue working.

Watch this space for Cosase movie! 

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