Parliament has amended section 34, sub rule (1) of the Rules of procedure pushing the Prime Minister’s question time to Thursday of the week from Wednesday on justification that the Minister cannot beat the traffic jam on Entebbe road to attend the Parliamentary proceedings in time.
The proposal was moved by the government Chief Whip, Ruth Nankabirwa, while Parliament was handling the amendment of rules procedure.
Nankabirwa, said that since the head of state chose Wednesday to be cabinet day and being that cabinet meeting sit in Entebbe to enable the prime minister to be in parliament in time to answers MPS questions on different matters.
The Opposition Chief Whip, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, had wanted Parliament to reject the proposal to shift the prime minister’s question time to Thursday since tax payers pay money for the President’s office which is in Kampala.
But parliament agreed to approve the government chief whip’s amendment on this matter.
Ministers in the past have been absent or late for Parliament’s proceedings especially on Wednesday ,on ground that they are delayed in Cabinet meeting causing suspension of the sitting for some minutes waiting for their presence for Parliament to transact business of the day .
