SPEAKER DISPATCHES PARLIAMENTARY AMBULANCE TO EVACUATE ILL MPS

The Ugandan Speaker of Parliament Hon Jacob Oulanyah has granted a request from government to dispatch an ambulance to Masaka to evacuate Hon Muhammad Ssegirinya, whose health condition is said to be worrying.

Oulanyah told Parliament on Wednesday that he learnt of the MP’s ill-health on Tuesday evening during a meeting with three ministers and the Leader of Opposition.

The meeting he said was attended by Security Minister Hon Jim Muhwezi, State Minister for Internal Affairs Gen David Muhoozi and Government Chief Whip Hon Thomas Tayebwa.

Oulanyah says during the meeting, the internal affairs minister told them that the MP was indeed not feeling well and that police had requested for Parliament to dispatch an ambulance and a doctor to be on standby in Masaka in case Hon Ssegirinya needed treatment.

“In our meeting it was raised that the health of Hon Ssegirinya is not that good and the minister requested that if parliament can release our ambulance so that police doesn’t have to use its own; and that we arrange with Ssegirinya’s private docto so that the parliamentary ambulance can go and pick him and they take him for evaluation if he is not too well,” Oulanya said.

“So I granted that permission and if the situation demands it, the parliamentary van and the doctor will be meeting him in Masaka to see if there is need for evaluation and reference.”