By Nickson Maberi
Member of parliament for Gulu East and cleric Father Onen Charles has revealed that he almost quit his position as legislator in Uganda’s parliament due to the opposition’s disruptive behaviour.
Father Onen told the parliament on October 19, 2023, that he has been considering resignation because of the conduct of some legislators in the house, especially the opposition, who had turned walking out of the parliament into a habit.
“For the past two days I have been thinking of resigning as MP because of the way we have been behaving. I am happy, we are talking like national leaders and we need to wear national lenses; when we are talking, we don’t need to talk because my brother is suffering,” Father One said.
Father Onen also castigated the leader of the Opposition, Hon. Mathias Mpuuga, for his statement about arrests and murders, saying that he focused mainly on the Central Region and didn’t include arrests and murders being done in other regions such as the North.
“We are talking about Muslim clerics being arrested, so many religious leaders were arrested in Northern Uganda, now you are only talking about what is happening here. We need to start talking about national reconciliation, confrontational approach to any issue must stop,” he said.
Opposition MPs had walked out of the parliament twice before the plenary on October 19, 2023, as a way of protesting and forcing the government to give a detailed explanation on the ‘unlawful’ arrests of their leaders and supporters.
Father Onen’s comments follow a presentation by the leader of the opposition, who demanded the government to account for the lives lost during the November 2020 riots, arrested Moslem clerics and political prisoners among others.
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