MP ADEKE SCANDALIZES 10TH PARLIAMENT

By Jeremiah Kaniampiha

Hon Anna Adeke Ebaju, the National Youth MP; 27  is throwing the 10th parliament into a sex scandal just moments before it concludes its term. The MP claims she was sexually harassed  by a male legislator.

She cited an incident where she had gone on an official foreign trip and a male MP she had travelled with allegedly fondled her breasts, to her disbelief.

“A male colleague, who is much older than me, I think I shouldn’t say much but I think in 1990, he had already joined the bar, came and tapped my chest as I was looking through the mirror. He came and held my breast like this….and I was so shocked,” MP Adeke narrated on Monday evening at a function in Kampala organized by Uganda Law Society to celebrate female lawyers joining the next Parliament.

She added: “I looked around and all the men there, said ‘yah…yah, so what!’ I am just saying the house is so much patriarchal but we thank you Madam Speaker ( Rebecca Kadaga) because you have given us a platform to air out the issues that people think should not be talked about.”

MP Adeke did not disclose the offending MP or further details about the incident. She also did not say whether she reported the matter to police for investigation.