Speaker Oboth Oboth: 'Corruption-Free Parliament' – Full Inaugural Speech | Acoli Side TV

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:02]Your Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda, also the chairperson of the NRM party and commander and chief of the UPDF, General Yueri Kagotam 7, your lordship, the Chief Justice of the Republic of Uganda, Honorable Justice Dr. Flavian seizure, the cler of parliament, honorable members of parliament, all staff of parliament, the media, all Ugandans near and far who are following these events.

[00:00:40]Ladies and gentlemen, I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[00:00:50]Your Excellency and honorable colleagues, allow me to start by thanking God for this great day that the Lord has made.

[00:00:59]It is one of those great moments in our nation's history only made possible by the Almighty God.

[00:01:07]Let me share with you two verses from the holy book.

[00:01:14]The first one is in Isaiah drawn from Isaiah 60 22 which says when the time is right I the Lord will make it happen.

[00:01:30]The other is from the book of Habacook 2 verse 3 which says for the revelation awaits an appointed time. It speaks of the end and will not prove false though it linger. Wait for it. It will certainly come and will not delay.

[00:01:56]I can testify before you all gathered here today that faithful and strategic patience has brought us this far and we cannot thank God enough.

[00:02:08]I am therefore not standing before you today in this official speaker's regalia accidentally but by but because God has made it all possible.

[00:02:20]For a boy who grew up in a rural village called Muafu in Toro district who hustled to attain better education and today right now stands before you as the speaker of the 12th parliament. It could only be by divine grace and to God be the glory.

[00:02:42]I wish to thank my NRM party chairman his excellency Yu Kagutam 7 for the confidence and trust he showed in my abilities since 2011.

[00:02:55]Honorable members, I thank you most sincerely for entrusting me today with the highest office of being your speaker, which responsibility I receive with utmost humility and modesty.

[00:03:10]God has spoken to Uganda through you all, through the national chairperson of NRM, through the NRM sake, through the NRM parliamentary caucus and through this parliament.

[00:03:26]To those who may not have voted for me, I will be your speaker too.

[00:03:34]I thank the voters my voters of West Pama central county in Toro district for sending me to the nation. I also want to thank the leadership and members of the Patriotic League of Uganda a pressure group aligned to the NRM for their support through this journey.

[00:03:56]Honorable members, the speaker's share is not a throne.

[00:04:01]It is a servant's post. My role now is to come before you to ensure that working together, the voices of the over 48 million Ugandans who send us here are heard, protected, and respected.

[00:04:20]Honorable colleagues, we are aware of what has been going through.

[00:04:27]I pledge a corruptionfree parliament.

[00:04:33]Under my leadership, we will cultivate a culture of absolute integrity and zero tolerance to corruption.

[00:04:41]Anchored in President Musevven's clarion call for corruptionfree parliament in the next 5 years.

[00:04:51]Accountability begins with us. In the next 5 years, we will hold the executive and other government bodies accountable. But we must start with ourselves.

[00:05:03]As they say, charity begins at home. We cannot hide from accountability of government resources. Yet we expect it from other agencies and departments.

[00:05:14]That will not work.

[00:05:16]Three, evidencebased evidence and researchbased debates.

[00:05:22]Under my leadership, the floor of parliament will not be a theater for hearsay or grandstanding.

[00:05:30]Our debates must be grounded in hard facts, data and sound research. We must be fair and objective to others as we pay play our oversight function for a people centered parliament. Under our leadership, every bill, every mo motion, every decision must directly answer to the needs of the ordinary citizen.

[00:05:59]Five, resultbased appropriation. Under my leadership, budgeting will no longer be an exercise in financial engineering and distortion. It will be a serviceoriented reserved-driven endeavor to deliver services to our people.

[00:06:19]Six, unopen parliament. During this term, let us appreciate that unobjective and ethical media are not our enemies, but the public's eye and ear. We must maintain a transparent, decent, and open parliament. When we close our doors to the media, a negative perception is generated.

[00:06:42]If we are clean and doing a good job, why hide?

[00:06:47]I will encourage a professional and robust relationship with the press at all times in order to bridge the gap between the house and our people.

[00:06:57]And lastly on that pillar, proactive oversight. Under my leadership, your excellency, the oversight function should not be a postmortem.

[00:07:08]We need not wait for public funds to be lost. Our committees should be facilitated to work to monitor, intercept and protect processes resources in real time in order to propel every effort geared towards the 10-fold growth.

[00:07:27]Honorable members, I invite you to embrace these seven pillars to regain the public trust. As I conclude, I appeal to I appeal to our technical team led by my senior brother and fellow land friend honorable Adolf Messenger Casa, the cler to parliament for their support. I promise to treat each one of us with fairness as we embark on working hard to enhance to harness the public trust. But know that we will require some rapid, highly visible and structural changes changes to be made.

[00:08:06]Your Excellency and honorable members, my final promise to you gathered here today and all Ugandans out there is that I start this new responsibility speaker, I will remain the same or both of both, not changed by the grander or majesty of a powerful office of the speaker.

[00:08:30]Let us all serve the parliament of Republic of Uganda with humility, modesty and dignity. Let us serve all Ugandans with respect and honor. I thank you. God bless you all and may God bless the Republic of Uganda.