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Members of Parliament have said they are living in fear of poison because it is becoming a norm lately. This issue of poison in the political sphere was re-ignited following claims by Nathan Okori that they poisoned his son the late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah.
It is not the first time politicians are claiming to have been targets of poison.
In 2018, during a plenary sitting, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu, former state minister for Primary Health Care said she spent six months in hospital due to poison.
“As a piece of advice to members of parliament, let’s take care of ourselves. Know what you eat, where you eat, and with who you eat. Yes, it is true the situation began with food poisoning. Later indeed foreign elements were found in my body. All the tests that were done from the different hospitals didn’t come with any natural cause of the illness.”
Apparently, the former Speaker Rebecca Kadaga survived powder poison too. This is after someone put it in an envelope in the 9th Parliament.
Up until now though, the speculation around the cause of Oulanyah’s death being poison is still speculation. The postmortem report said the Speaker died because of multi-organ failure.
This poison talk has made some MPs to stay away from meals around parliament areas. Meanwhile, the commissioner of Parliament Solomon Silwany, dismissed all these claims saying parliament is the safest place for legislators to have their meals.
He says there are a number of mechanisms in place to protect the MPs.
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