Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is on a mission to deploy Ugandan troops for “peacekeeping or peace enforcement” in South Sudan.
Permission is being sought by Museveni from MPs in retrospect.
Museveni sent a letter to Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadanga to recall Parliament from recess over the Juba matter.
Surprisingly the letter believed to have been written on December 24 bears a date stamp with January 9, 2014.
Questions are being raised why an urgent letter would take two weeks to be delivered.
According to detractors, Museveni`s letter was a panic response, which was perhaps back-dated to defeat Parliament’s accusation that the commander-in-chief had deployed troops in a foreign country without leave of Parliament as required by the Ugandan Constitution.
In her letter to Defence ministry, Ms Kadaga had written that she would be grateful if she received the required information not later than January 13.
Last week an emergency recall of Parliament to debate the UPDF deployment in South Sudan and several MPs had signed the recall petition.
The petition was led by Paul Mwiru (Jinja East) and Hassan Kaps Fungaroo (Obongi County).
Kadaga spoke on national TV and was quoted to have said that Museveni was being portrayed as having informed her to recall Parliament and that She is the one who had been causing the delay.
Describing South Sudan as “our brotherly country”, the President said he had initially deployed a small force to guard Juba airport in agreement with President Salva Kiir and other leaders, but added that he was considering deploying more troops.
Deployments in South Sudan are expected to ensure regional security, protect the thriving trade with South Sudan and rescue trapped Ugandans and constitutionalism in South Sudan.
“I am therefore, writing to you to request you call Parliament to approve my actions as provided for by the UPDF Act. The mission for the deployment is for both peacekeeping but if necessary for peace enforcement,” Mr Museveni said.
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