Mityana Municipality MP Zaake Requests Investigation Into His Case be Halted Until Boycotting Opposition MPs Resume to Parliament.

Francis Zaake (Mityana Municipality) has asked the Rules & Discipline Committee to halt investigations into allegations that he used derogatory words to attack Juliet Kinyamatama (Rakai DWR), until the ban imposed by Speaker Among on Opposition MPs not to attend committee sittings for boycotting plenary sittings is lifted.

Zaake made his request through his lawyer Elias Lukwago who said that following the pronouncement of the ban, Zaake isn’t in position to take part in the Committee proceedings to which he is a key witness.

Lukwago said, "If he is to appear here as a witness, the lawyer has to be here. The lawyer can’t be a witness because he is being investigated as Member of Parliament, he isn’t being investigated, he isn’t being investigated as an outsider or stranger."

However, Lukwago’s request was met with protest from Charles Onen, Vice Chairperson Rules Committee who insisted that Zaake was appearing as a witness not MP before the Committee, an assertion Lukwago vehemently rejected saying Zaake was dragged to the committee because he is a Member of Parliament, not stranger in Parliament.