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During a parliamentary session earlier in the week, Speaker Moses Wetangula announced that MP Anthony Kabagendi had been suspended and must apologise before returning.
His offence, as framed in the chamber, was criticism: he questioned whether Parliament is operating independently and whether it has surrendered its constitutional autonomy. That moment raises a constitutional question beyond personalities: since when did questioning power become an offence requiring contrition? In a democracy, criticism is not misconduct. It is oxygen, the mechanism that keeps institutions accountable to the people who created them.
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