Members of Parliament are reportedly putting more efforts in producing more babies than executing their mandate to make laws for the country.
The shocking revelation was made by Odonga Otto, Aruu Country MP on Wednesday while reacting to a statement by State Minister for Youths, Florence Nakiwala on this year’s International Youth Day celebrations scheduled to take place on 12th August, 2019 in Jinja at St. Gonza Gonzaga Primary School Kagoma.
“The campaign for birth control should begin even in this parliament because if we are to add all our children, you can find they’re more than 10,000, so this is a very serious issue. We have to do something; this country isn’t expanding in size but the population is expanding day and night,” Otto said.
The controversial lwamaker added that it was about time Government came up with concrete plans on how to control the growing population in Uganda.
“As we drive around the country, there is bound to be a population explosion. The Minister should come and tell the country what plans we have to start campaigning for birth control because no matter what good intentions the Government have, if the population continues at this rate we are bound to have a problem,” he said.
Odonga also said that there is need for Parliament at an appropriate time to receive a comprehensive statement on what Government is doing for youths in Uganda.
“The Youth Livelihood Fund can’t be accessed;many youths finish university, they are bringing their wives in their parents’ homes. Many of them are unemployed, they are more disadvantaged than their own parents, they are unemployed, they are joining people power massively. So the government products aren’t growing at the rate of population growth,” he said.
However, Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana a self-confessed polygamist protested Odonga Otto’s attempts to control his sex sessions, arguing that unlike other Ugandans, MPs are responsible people who know what they are doing and should be left to make their babies in peace.
Rukutana said: “We MPs are very responsible people citizens of this country and indeed we give guidance and are examples to the youth throughout the country, we are responsible we know what we are doing and how to do it. is it in order for the MP to suggest that we just produce fwaaa and that birth control should begin with us in this house.”
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga backed Odonga saying whereas she has an idea of the number of children female MPs have, she can’t say the same about male MPs who never inform her about the fruits of their marriage.
“If you listen to me very carefully at every Christmas message, I give an account of the women who have delivered but I have always said that I don’t know how many children men have fathered,” she said.
Without revealing how he came to his conclusion, Guma Gumisiriza, the Ibanda County North MP commended Uganda women for being fertile and cautioning that instead of interfering with Ugandans’ rights to produce, there should be better plans on how to deal with the children produced.
He said: “I want to thank women of Uganda for a higher fertility. It is a total blessing we only need to look at the planning function so that we can replace these energetic people. We must praise God that we have fertile women who are producing, we must plan for them. We are here condemning population growth rate, which explosion? Look at the planning so that we absorb these guys into useful sectors. We need to completely revive the curriculum of this country.”
Nakiwala told Parliament that Uganda would join the rest of the World in marking and celebrating International Youth Day in Conformity with UN General Assembly Resolution geared towards providing an opportunity to all state parties to evaluate the various policies, programmes and strategic interventions aimed at empowering young people.
