Members of Parliament have criticized the chairpersons of the committees of parliament for sitting on peoples petitions sent to parliament seeking for interventions on the matter they think that government had failed find solutions.
Mps said that people take their petitions to parliament for quick solution but the peoples petitions are not handled by committees and most of them are taken by events and rendered useless.
According to the rules of parliamentary procedures the committee of Parliament is supposed to discuss a petition summon the relevant people and Authorities mentioned in the petition and then present a report in parliament within 45 days but most of the reports take more than three months in these committee.
This issue was raised by Serere District woman MP Alice Alaso saying that since she presented the petition of pharmacist of Uganda against the governments’ delay to admit them to practice but to date there has been no report by the former social service committee (which is currently the committee on Health).
Mukono Municipality MP Betty Namboze Bakileke also pinned committee Chairpersons for delaying to present petitions in the parliament for debate saysing that it’s now three months since she presented three petitions for parliament intervention but nothing has been done to her
Bulisa county MP Stephen Mukitale says, these petitions should directly be handled by the whole parliament so that the ministers responsible give answers
The deputy speaker of Parliament Jacob oulanyah directed the Committee Chairpersons to dispose off the petitions that were referred to their committees to make reports to parliament to dispel public fear.
Oulanyah says that if petitions are not handled in time this will create suspicion from the public that parliament is inefficient in performing it duties and public will also lose trust in parliament for not handling their petitions.
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