Members of parliament on legal committee say that UPDF should either sit with the opposition or Independent, and still vote as they please. MPs who include Abdul Katuntu and Sam Otada say that the army MPs should be neutral even in their sitting in parliament instead of them being on the side of the ruling party. In a meeting with the MPs on the legal committee over the Parliamentary Elections Amendment Bill 2015, reviewing the existence of special interest groups, the Chief of Defence Forces of the Army, General Edward Katumba Wamala, says that the army representative is still needed in parliament so that they follow what is going in the government.Katumba that says they need to consult with the UPDF to get a concrete answer for the sitting arrangements in parliament to give confidence to the citizen over the army neutrality. He explained that the President is the chief nominator of the UPDF representatives in parliament but he does not have a say on who voted since they are subjected to vote.
Currently there are 10 UPDF representatives in parliament and a section of Ugandans and members of parliament are still against their presence in parliament which is currently under the multiparty democracy with the fear that they may become partisan.