Uganda, April 13 -- On the afternoon of April 4, Mr Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, the deputy spokesperson of the National Unity Platform (NUP), did what until then had been considered unthinkable - giving Speaker of Parliament Anita Among a public telling off.

Speaking in Butende, Ibulanku Sub-county in Bugweri County, during the funeral of Ramathan Waiswa, a younger sibling of Bugweri County MP Abdu Katuntu, Mr Mufumbiro gave the Speaker an earful.

He told her to stop blaming the public condemnation for the profligacy of Parliament on former speaker Rebecca Kadaga.

"Here in Busoga we support Kadaga. I had to say this because most of you here fear saying so. If there are issues please do not attribute them to Kadaga. You ran roughshod over he...