The Parliamentary Commission has appealed against the recent Constitutional Court ruling that blocked parliament from being party to the oil sector probe case so as to assist the attorney general defend its interests.
The Constitutional Court had last week rejected the application by the Parliamentary Commission seeking a rejoinder as respondents in a case filed by SeverionoTwinobushingye, a voter from Kanungu district.
The Constitutional Court judges, in their ruling read by Registrar Erias Kisawuzi on Thursday, ruled that the application is incompetent because the Commission has no mandate to represent Parliament in Court.
According to court, the Commission was established to cater for the welfare of MPs and not legal representation of the institution. .
The Commission last month applied to the Constitutional Court to be allowed to defend their stand in setting up the committees, saying that the Attorney General does not seem to be representing their interests well.
During the oil debate in parliament, the Attorney General came outright to take a side, by defending the individual mentioned in the oil bribery allegations.
The parliamentary commission has come out to disagree with the affidavit in reply field by the attorney General, citing that the Attorney General intentionally misrepresented the Parliamentary Commission by conceding that ordering Mbabazi to step down in order to be investigated was unconstitutional.
Twinobushingye Severino filed an application seeking constitutional interpretation on whether parliament did not contravene the constitution by basing on allegations to ask the ministers mentioned to step aside and the whole parliamentary proceedings that led to the adoption of 12 resolutions of parliament.
DEAR JEANNE
