Will New Cohort of Acholi MPs Reclaim Past Glory of APG?

Martin Aliker, a political pundit in Gulu City says: “I must say the new team have two striking outstanding advantages, they come across as highly elitists in approach, most of them have attained a Master's level of education and they are much younger. In the previous lot, some of them upgraded their education while in Parliament.”

Mpuuga’s appointment was announced on Friday by David Lewis Rubongoya, the Secretary-General of NUP. Mpuuga is the NUP deputy for the central region.

The Speaker of the Eleventh Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has pledged to execute with outmost diligence the mandate given to him as head of the legislature.

Oulanyah won the hotly contested race with 310 votes against 197 votes garnered by former Speaker of the Tenth Parliament Rebecca Kadaga.

The Speaker contest is mainly between Omoro County MP Jacob Oulanyah and Kamuli Woman MP, Rebecca Kadaga who has been serving as Deputy Speaker and speaker in the Tenth Parliament.

The contest is mainly between Omoro County MP Jacob Oulanyah who has been serving as Deputy Speaker in the Tenth Parliament and Kamuli Woman MP Rebecca Kadaga who has also been serving as Speaker in the previous parliament. Both candidates are from the ruling National Resistance Movement -NRM party but Kadaga chose to contest as an independent candidate after her party offered the flag to Oulanyah.

Ssenkungu was defeated by National Unity Platform’s Francis Kimuli Ssempala, who got 13 votes against Ssenkungu’s 4 votes.