The speaker of Uganda Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga wants an - TopicsExpress



          

The speaker of Uganda Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga wants an independent unit to handle legal matters of Parliament and not the Attorney General. Under Article 119 of the constitution, the AG, as the principal legal adviser of the Government is mandated to legally represent its numerous institutions including parliament. The relationship between parliament and the AG has been rather frosty following what Kadaga described last year as the AG, Peter Nyombi turning into a hostile witness in a suit that parliament subsequently lost. “We are forcefully being represented by the AG. Every time our lawyers try to represent the institution, the AG thwarts them. But on this, we shall not relent to demand for independence from AG,” Kadaga
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:24:50 +0000

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