Uganda, May 5 -- During the course of last month, Speaker Anita Among directed Parliament's legal team to sue The Observer newspaper.

The directive was precipitated by the publication on April 24 of the story, 'MPs bribed to save government agencies', which alleged that legislators had taken bribes in order to save some of the agencies that had been lined up for mainstreaming back to their parent ministries under the planned rationalisation of government agencies and departments.

Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), National Information and Technology Authority (NITA), Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) and Cotton Development Organisation were among the agencies and departments cited in the bribery allegations during the ongo...