Some Members of Parliamnet are still paying for their role in the passing of the Presidential Age Limit Constitutional Amendment of 2017 as constituents see them as Judas Iscariots who betrayed the them for a payoff
An angry mob, last weekend attacked Hon Catherine Atwakire Ndamira, the Kabale district Woman Member of parliament, and near physically assaulted her, over her vote in the amendment.
Ndamira was visiting Buhara Sub County where she took cartons of salt and dozens of piglets as agricultural inputs for the local farmers.
On arrival at Muyebe, however, she was met by an angry group of resident who accused her of ignoring their voices.
As she disembarked from her vehicle, the group started charging, and chanting, questioning among others why she advocated for the age limit amendment.
“We heard that NRM MPs were given 100m shillings to back the age limit. Is she now trying to bribe us with these little pigs and salt?” one of the locals charged.
“She cannot keep taking us for granted; we can take care of ourselves. She is not the one that has been feeding us.”
Sensing danger the legislator was immediately helped back into her car and whisked off.”
Three of the piglets that the MP had brought were killed in the process.
This is the second time that this MP has been attacked by voters. Last year, while in Kyanamira at a wedding she was booed by residents as she tried to discredit fellow MP Robert Kyagulanyi.
The attack on Hon Ndamira follows an opinion poll which came out this week showing that nearly half of the respondents vowed not to vote their current representatives back to parliament.
The poll by Research World International found that even among NRM voters, the majority (45%) said they would not vote their current MPs in 2021.
Hon Ndamira who is serving her first term in parliament is already facing five women in the 2021 polls who are Evelyn Beinamaryo, Chrispin Musiimenta Rwaboona, Christine Nyinabashatu Turyakira, Janet Kiconco Rutaraka and Loy Zikampereza the Kabale district speaker.
