MP to boycott House sittings until 2021

Aruu Member of Parliament (MP), Odonga Otto, will from now until 2021 not attend any sitting of Parliament chaired by Jacob Oulanyah, the Deputy Speaker.
Mr Otto, via a September 5 letter to Mr Oulanyah, alleges the addressee is biased and a sycophant.
He claims that whereas he was the first to catch the eye of Speaker Oulanyah on the September 5, the latter picked Security minister Elly Tumwine.
The House was then debating a report by an ad hoc committee of Parliament, which describe the state Robert Kyagulanyi (Kyadondo East MP) and the Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake, who had been reportedly assaulted by Special Force Command operatives, were in when the committee visited them.
“In the circumstance, given your obvious biases, direct political leanings, routine and casual sycophancy, I bring to your attention that I will not be attending any session of Parliament you, Hon. Oulanyah Jacob, will be chairing until the end of this Parliament in 2021,” Mr Otto said.
“I hope and pray that one day the Constitution of Uganda will be amended to allow a non-partisan Speaker, at the stature of a High Court judge or justice of peace, be in that chair.”
During Thursday’s plenary (sitting), Kawempe North MP, Latif Sebaggala, defended Mr Oulanyah.
“When you [Speaker Oulanyah] were giving opportunity to us, many Members of the Opposition spoke as well as those from the other side [government],” Mr Sebaggala said.
“So [for] someone to claim that you only gave one side [the opportunity to speak] and that is why he [Mr Otto] reacted the way he reacted, I could not stand it because you tried you level best to guide this House without being biased.
In response to Mr Sebaggala request for guidance, Mr Oulanyah said he could not rule on the matter.
“This is a tricky one; it’s calling upon me to rule about things about me. That is a difficult one,” Mr Oulanyah said.
“But you see, if you read Gulliver’s Travels, there is a particular line that I like very much. He said ‘what mighty contest rises from trivial things’?
“I also remember Shakespeare in his book Measure for Measure. He said ‘by sin others rise, by virtue others fall,’” he said, adding that, “ I cannot rule on that matter. I will leave it at that for the people to see. There is no procedural matter for me to rule on – because the letter you refer to, I think, is the second I am receiving.”