The Uganda Law Society has lauded Speaker Rebecca Kadaga's move to extend the tenure of the leadership for Parliament’s Committee on Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE).
Kadaga yesterday ruled that the Abdu Katuntu led committee will only wind up after it has handed over the report into the activities of Bank of Uganda.
In a statement, Simon Peter Kinobe, the president of the Uganda Law Society noted that the current team has nearly completed the exercise and any interruption now would scale back the progress registered in that investigation.
He said if there is instability in COSASE it will render the invested resources into this process so far a waste yet the time needed for them to produce a report is not that long.
"The circumstances at hand are unprecedented because you have a committee that has done its work almost halfway and has not concluded and you have new proposed members who have not been sitting in the committee at all. Under the rules of parliament, the speaker has the authority to borrow best practices from other commonwealth countries to allow the committee to handover a completed report," he said.
The FDC has contested the speaker's decision saying it undermines the respect of rules and regulations.
The party has vowed to challenge the speaker's decision in court.
Katuntu's leadership of the committee officially ends on January 13 but Kadaga has given them up top the end of February to wind up the probe.
