PARLIAMENT ON OTAFIRE’S NECK OVER GRABBING PUBLIC LAND

By Felix Twinomugisha

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In Kampala

The minister for Justice Gen Kahinda Otafiire threatened yesterday to hit up the MP for Buhweju Francis mwijukye for revealing claims that Otafiire has a history of grabbing public land.

According to Otafiire, he says that if Mwijukye dares to say anything outside Parliament, he will regret his words.

“I want honourable Mwijukye to repeat what he has said on the floor outside Parliament and he sees,” Otafiire warned.

This encounter between the big Dogs happened after Parliament tasked the minister to explain reports that he had grabbed land belonging to the government stock farm in Njeru, Buikwe.

Earlier, the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga had accused Otafiire and a one Muhangi of causing instability at the government’s stock farm in Njeru.

This prompted the Opposition Chief Whip Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda to ask Kadaga to allow the minister explain his involvement in the acquisition of the government’s land in Njeru.

However, Otafiire made the lawmakers very bitter when he insisted that the land belongs to him.

Mwijukye insisted that Otafiire had grabbed government when he served as minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development so the new allegations were not surprising.

 Nandala Mafabi the Budadiri West lawmaker intervened and told the general to stop intimidating fellow MPs.

“Everyone has a right to say what they want. You shouldn’t scare fellow MPs,” he said.

As if to show that the lawmakers are not intimidated, Mafabi repeated Mwijukye’s allegations providing more details.

“You grabbed prime land opposite Kyambogo University when you served as minister of Lands,” Mafabi said leading Otafiire to smile sheepishly.

Mafabi wondered whether Otafiire will also turn on him to which the general replied that he had no intentions of fighting anyone.

Outside of the chambers after the heated debate Otafiire and Mafabi were seen exchanging smiles calming the fears of many people who had expected the situation to turn bloody.

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