GULU- Deputy Speaker Tayebwa has revealed that some of the reports and matters that had been lined up on the Order Paper for the Regional Sitting in Northern Uganda will be handled upon resumption of plenary sittings on 17th September 2024. He disclosed this in his closing remarks at the end of the inaugural regional sitting in Gulu.
“Thank you to the people of Northern Uganda for the warm reception. It has been an awesome experience, the hospitality. The issues which were not covered in the reports, I couldn’t bring them on now when we haven’t completed receiving the report so, we shall complete that process from Kampala, we do a memorandum,” noted Tayebwa.
While giving a vote of thanks, the Soroti County MP, Patrick Aeku has revealed that some MPs have enjoyed living in Gulu so much that, they don’t even want to leave, because throughout this time, he gained more weight and hasn’t polished his shoes “due to lack of dust”, and the stay was further made more peaceful because of the good garbage collection in Gulu City, so he didn’t have any lingering fear of garbage heaps falling on him.
He said, “We have been here, but some of us don’t want to leave, because, this area, has fresh air. I haven’t polished my shoes ever since I came from Kampala. So I want to thank the people of Northern Uganda for the hospitality, the food has been very good, the hotels have been very exceptional, you sleep and rest well. Even the garbage collection is very good, there are no landfills to collapse here. “
Aeku added, “The experience we have had in Northern Uganda for the few days, these people are good people and we should appreciate. If only, one could think like me I would move a motion and we leave Kampala to be a commercial City and make Gulu, a business City. Not only even in the night, we have been peaceful, we have been walking, moving around, these people are friendly. None of us is injured, there is no case registered, they are hospitable.”
“And indeed, if we are looking at tourist attraction areas, let us enhance Northern Uganda. Tourists like good roads, tourists like good hotels, tourists like good food. We have put on weight, you can see, this isn’t my original size (while rubbing his hands on the stomach and showing it off his belly to fellow MPs, while smiling) but I am sure because of being in the City of Gulu, I am now a better person,” concluded Aeku.
