SERIOUS FIGHTING: Tensions Flair at City Hotel as MPs Processing Sovereignty Bill Exchange Blows Over Disagreements

News reaching our Desk indicate that there have been serious disagreements among the Members of parliament sitting on the two committees processing the contentious Protection of Sovereignty bill 2026 which has dominated debate across the entire country.

First introduced to parliament two weeks ago and tabled by the minister of state for Internal affairs Gen David Muhoozi for it’s first reading, the Protection of Sovereignty bill has elicited mixed reactions from various stake holders who have adequately rejected it.

Speaker of parliament Anita Among sent the bill to the Committees of Defense and Internal Affairs alongside that of Legal and parliamentary affairs to jointly process the bill. The Clerk to parliament Adolf Mwesigye issued public notices and wrote to several stake holders to appear before the parliament and give in their views regarding the bill.

Religious leaders, politicians, lawyers, banks, among many others have appeared before the committee and spoken in unison when presenting their views on the bill before parliament that the country doesn’t need the proposed bill save for a few of those subscribing to the NRM who have embraced in it’s entirety especially Law don and new NRM convert Yusuf Nsibambi.

President Museveni last week while reacting to the backlash the bill has elicited over the last 10 days including a detailed explanation by the Governor Bank of Uganda Dr. Micheal Ating-Ego who told the MPs processing the bill that the proposed law spells doom of the economy especially if it is coming to regulate financial inflows and outflows.

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President Museveni distanced himself from the version that was before the parliamentary committees claiming the bill he initiated intended to regulate policy not private matters of individuals and organizations pertaining their operations and donor funding.

Museveni then said in his write up that he had directed the Chairpersons of the Committees processing the bill and the Government Chief Whip Hamson Obua to withdraw the current version of the bill and replace it with the version he initiated.

In reaction to this, the Minister of State for Internal Affairs alongside the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka appeared before the Committee last week and presented some revisions to the bill including removing a section that had defined Ugandans living outside Uganda as foreigners.

Now news reaching us indicate that the Members processing the bill are currently at Common Wealth Resort Munyonyo where they continue to process the bill to make it ready for a marathon second and third reading and to it’s passing this coming week. To prove how government urgently needs this bill, the MPs are even working over the weekend to have it done on time and in time.

At the Munyonyo Common Wealth Resort, police have heavily deployed in and around the hotel to calm down the situation after the MPs reportedly disagreed with the Committee Chairpersons who have decided to abandon the public views on the bill and instead adopted the revised bill of the Attorney General.

It’s reported by journalist Solomon Serwanja that before the Chairpersons adopted the revised version of the Attorney General, all committee members had agreed to incorporate the public views and discuss each clause via vis the views received from the public and state holders which the committee bosses sharply disagreed with and opted for the mafia style.

In the end, it’s reported that the Members instead voted on each clause of the revised Attorney Generals version and abandoned the views of the public rendering the time the committee wasted interacting with stake holders to wastage.

Ahead of President Museveni’s swearing in on 12^th and later the swearing in of the Members of the 12^th parliament days later, government is not only committed but is determined to have the bill passed this coming week and sent to the president for it’s signing before this end of the current term.

BREAKING: Tensions flare at Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo over the #ProtectionOfSovereigntyBill2026.

A section of MPs clashed with a committee chair after he proposed adopting the Attorney General’s amended bill as-is, skipping clause-by-clause review of public submissions.

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— Solomon Serwanjja (@SolomonSerwanjj) May 3, 2026 

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