MUBENDE: The district councilor for the Kiyuni Subcouty Hon Navubya Magret advocates the proposed reduction of the number of legislators in parliament in a move by the Nyendo-Mukungwe MP’s proposed electoral reforms.
Hon Magret questions the role of the five members of Parliament for each district as they have failed to deliver to the voters’ expectations
“The most important and dicey is reducing the size of parliament. The size of Parliament has been a major concern. I support the proposal that instead of having county MPs, we shall have a directly elected Member of Parliament at least two for each district. It can be a man or woman; it doesn’t matter. So currently, you will have like 146 MPs,” Magret said.
Magret added sporting light to her area Member of Parliament for Buwekula county, Mbabazi Pascal saying he has failed to deliver to the expectations of the members of Parliament so she doesn’t see why he’s in parliament.
Navubya Magret also proposed that councilors should be paid much better than members of Parliament because most of the work on the ground is done by the councilors and yet they get peanuts.
“I come from Buwekula but what has the MP representing us done? Most of the work we councilors have done it, whether it is roads, lobbying water for the area everything now what is he doing and what is he doing in parliament?” she added.
The Nyendo Mukungwe legislator Hon Mathias Mpuuga said on Tuesday that his reforms intend to reduce the size of parliament by having only directly elected MPs for each district instead of county.
Mpuuga’s reforms follow the first reading of the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2024 by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Nobert Mao. Mpuuga said on Monday that if the minister was not ready to present his constitutional reforms, he would present those that were ready.
