After about a month and a half of absence, the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga is expected back in office this week to resume steering the House.
According to the Speaker’s Principal Press Secretary Sam Obbo, Kadaga will today Friday April 26th 2019 be in her office and will attend to her official duties.
“At 11AM, the Rt. Hon. Speaker will launch the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference website in her Boardroom. The launch of the website is one of the activities slated ahead of the upcoming Commonwealth conference taking place in Uganda,” Obbo said.
This will be Kadaga’s first public appearance after her return in Mid-April from the Agha Khan Hospital in Nairobi Kenya where she had been transferred after suffering from fatigue and jet lag related illness.
Kadaga was in March 2019 airlifted to the Agha Khan Hospital in Nairobi for further management after days of admission at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala.
She was first admitted at Nakasero hospital last month upon returning from a hectic ten-day working visit to the USA and Morocco.
The speaker’s principal press secretary, Sam Obbo, recently told journalists: “Like anyone else, when you return, you would still need to have some rest at your home before you resume work. The speaker will return to work soon after rest.”
There were two major prayers held in her Kamuli district constituency after she was flown to Nairobi. After her recovery, Kadaga rang her mother in Kamuli reassuring her that she would be home soon.
Kadaga later sent a statement accompanied by a visual recording thanking the press and all Ugandans of goodwill for praying for her recovery. She, however, criticised social media where false reports were published suggesting that her health had deteriorated, necessitating further referral to Spain.
