The opposition has voted to keep their boycott of house sittings alive until the government addresses the issues of human rights abuses. They have refuted the alleged peace talks with the government to resolve the impasse.
After a long week of Ping-Pong in the house, today the opposition caucus in parliament convened to review their boycott The meeting chaired by Mathias Mpuuga the leader of the opposition resolved to maintain the boycott until their demands are fulfilled.
Mpuuga says he had a meeting with the deputy speaker Thomas Tayebwa who assured him that he has supplied government agencies with all the information about cases of Human rights violations which opposition is demanding responses.
The opposition has refuted allegations that they are in closed-door talks with the government to resolve the standoff in the house as the deputy speaker Thomas Tayebwa noted yesterday.
Opposition MPs walked out of a plenary sitting, on Thursday last week, protesting and demanding a government explanation over human rights violations mated against their leaders and supporters, some of whom remain unaccounted for in many months. Mpuuga insists that the responses they want from the government are not just academic but very thorough details of missing persons and action taken to find them among other details.
The Leader of the opposition has also expressed a need to amend the rules of the house to provide more time to accountability committees to scrutinize auditor general’s reports beyond six months. This is after parliament considered a number of audit reports.
