Aboneka Writes

By Michael Aboneka As part of easing the lock down, the President announced several updates which included opening of arcades that meet the standards set, salons and allowing boda-bodas carry passengers. The boda-bodas and arcades must keep records of every person as part of the new requirements. They must write down their name, National ID number, Residence and telephone number in a bid to help in contact tracing just in case one of them happens to contract COVID-19. Be that as it may, there are issues concerning privacy of a person and that of their Data. The President recently assented to the Data Protection and Privacy Bill into law operationalizing Article 27 of the Constitution. The law aims at protecting the the privacy of the individual and of personal data by regulating the collection and processing of personal information; provides for the rights of the persons whose data is collected and the obligations of data collectors, data processers and data controllers; regulates

By Michael Aboneka The rush to create new cities has been marred with the appetite to create constituencies for many and not necessarily for the reasons of economic development among others. I have not seen any strategic development plan of any of the new Cities but rather been bamboozled with Candidate Posters of all manner and colour intending to take up political seats in the new cities. Among these is the "City Woman MP." I am wondering what law created the vacancy of "City Woman MP." Article 78 of the Constitution establishes the composition of the Parliament and specifically 78 (1) (b) establishes One Woman Representative for each District. Therefore, this means that the Constitution refers to a District and not a City for a representative of the Women in a district. Secondly, a City is curved out of a District that already has a Representative of the woman (wrongfully and commonly referred to as "Woman MP") and there is no need of a Second rep