Deputy Speaker ‘rubbishes’ NUP tribalism allegations by Hon Macho

The Deputy Speaker, Hon Thomas Tayebwa, has asked Clerk to Parliament to expunge remarks by Geoffrey Macho who accused the National Unity Platform (NUP ) of tribalism.

The Busia Municipality MPs claimed NUP’s top management is tribalistic because most of the MPs appointed in latest Opposition leadership are from buganda.

The Deputy Speaker’s decision followed a request made by Hon Aisha Kabanda who asked to have Macho’s remarks to be expunged on grounds that they were malicious.

“Macho has made a statement that is extremely malicious and ill intentioned. I am the Deputy Secretary General of NUP and I find it extremely unfitting for me to continue speaking when someone speaks very malicious and walks out as though he simply came to make a malicious statement and walk away. When you look at our front bench, it is well balanced. I pray that you find it befitting that to expunge this statement because I find it to be very malicious and only playing a tribal card to malign the Opposition,” said Kabanda.

Tayebwa agreed with Hon Kabanda and said that issues raised by Macho are not for Parliament to handle.

“I tend to agree these aren’t issues to do with Parliament. Parliament should be for issues to do with Parliament, how a political party chooses its people, that is its issue. Please expunge this from the records. Parliament doesn’t have any role it plays in the appointment of the shadow cabinet, they don’t come here for approval, they don’t justify to us whom they have appointed and why, so please spare us that,” said Tayebwa.