By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
PARROTS UG|PARLIAMENT:
Parliament has on Thursday granted leave to the workers’ MP Margaret Rwabushaija to introduce a private member’s bill entitled, “the market bill, 2021”
In a proposed bill, MP Rwabushaija seeks to repeal and replace the Market Act Cap. 94 to provide for a comprehensive legal frame work that is well aligned to the legal and economic reforms that have revolved overvtime, as well as strengthening the regulation, management and administration of market.
According to Rwabushaija, the current law on markets is outdated because it was formulated by the colonial government in 1942 noting that a number of reforms have revolved over time thus a need for a new law.
Speaking during the plenary, Charles Bakabulindi also the workers MP in the 11th parliament said the proposed law covers all markets across the country which needs to be guided and regulated.
“With this law, we are talking about markets in the whole country, none of us can say that markets are not contributing to the wellbeing of our people, they are contributing a lot to the economy, and but they need to be guided and regulated,” he said.
Parliament then granted Rwabushaija leave to introduce the bill and the speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanya, directed the parliamentary clerk to write to the minister of finance to grant a certificate of financial implication to MP Rwabushaija to enable her introduce the bill.
