{"id":6215,"date":"2024-01-17T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2024-01-17T08:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:05:34","slug":"parliament-vets-new-ec-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/01\/17\/parliament-vets-new-ec-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Vets New EC Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Parliamentary Appointments Committee chaired by the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Anita Among, on Tuesday vetted the new Electoral Commission seven-member team as appointed by President Museveni recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee vetted, Justice Simon Byamukama as the Chairperson, Hajjati Aisha Lubega as Deputy Chairperson, and other commissioners including; James Emorut, Stephen Tashobya, Anthony Okello, Simba Ssali, and Caroline Bainamaryo.<\/p>\n<p>KFM understands that Kasule Ssebunya and Pamela Okudi who appeared on the earlier list of nominated EC commissioners were replaced by Caroline Bainamaryo and James Emorut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Speaker shall communicate to the President the decision of the Appointments Committee in accordance with Rule 171 of the Parliament Rules of Procedure,\u201d A statement published on Parliament of Uganda\u2019s X handle reads in part.<\/p>\n<p>Butambala district woman MP, Ms Aisha Kabanda, one of the Committee members confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur committee has interfaced with seven nominees from the president whether they have gone through successfully or not, that\u2019s not within my mandate\u2026 it\u2019s the Speaker to declare that by writing that to the appointing authority,\u201d Ms Kabanda said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I would like to say that it is regrettable that we are working in systems that we oppose. We think a lot of things have to change on these appointments,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale The Parliamentary Appointments Committee chaired by the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Anita Among, on Tuesday vetted the new Electoral Commission seven-member team as appointed by President Museveni recently. The Committee vetted, Justice Simon Byamukama as the Chairperson, Hajjati Aisha Lubega as Deputy Chairperson, and other commissioners including; James Emorut, Stephen Tashobya, Anthony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}