A row is brewing between the Speaker of Parliament and Office of the Prime Minister after it emerged that someone in that office has tried to thwart her attempts to compensate for what she irregularly received in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.

There were dramatic scenes at both OPM, and at a factory contracted to manufacture the iron sheets as Speaker Anita Among sought to know why the 500 iron sheets she paid for in compensation had not reached OPM stores in Namanve one month down the road.

Among dispatched teams to OPM from her office, accompanied by officers from her security detail, with orders to retrieve and physically deliver a letter authorising a company contracted to manufacture the iron sheets to deliver them.

The speaker Among along with Vice President Jessica Alupo, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja and 22 ministers have been implicated in the scandal which also has 22 ministers and other officials on the hook.

On March 13, Among is said to have paid MM Integrated Steel Mill Ltd for 500 iron sheets to replace what had been irregularly given to her.

She also reportedly contacted OPM Under-Secretary Geoffrey Sseremba, who promised to clear her but unknown to the Speaker, the authorisation letter mysteriously went missing after it reportedly left OPM. 

No iron sheets were either produced or delivered and this has left the Speaker’s public declaration to colleagues during a plenary session in Parliament on March 15, that she had returned the 500 iron sheets, in doubt.