Tayebwa wins second term as deputy speaker as NRM tightens grip on Parliament leadership

Thomas Tayebwa was on Monday sworn in for another five-year term as Deputy Speaker after securing a commanding victory in a vote that further cemented the ruling National Resistance Movement’s dominance over Uganda’s 12th Parliament.

Tayebwa, the Ruhinda North County MP in Mitooma District, garnered 457 votes in a secret ballot conducted during the opening sitting of the new Parliament at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds.

Newly elected Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth-Oboth, presiding over his first parliamentary session after earlier taking oath, declared Tayebwa winner of the deputy…