Could this be why Nankabirwa isn’t popular in NRM?

Kyankwanzi District Woman MP Ann Maria Nankabirwa was in the news last week for the wrong reasons. It was reported that she fought with her Butaleja District counterpart Florence Nebanda. They clashed over Kyankwanzi beds.
Ms Nankabirwa has carved out a reputation for herself as a no nonsense lady in the House. She is known for exposing corruption. But to some honourable ladies in the House, Nankabirwa is an arrogant person who despises others. Could this explain why when the fracas erupted in Kyankwanzi there was cheering for Nebanda?
PoliticalXtra understands that Nankabirwa’s trouble started last year when she told an NRM Parliamentary Caucus meeting, chaired by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati ,that some MPs pocketed bribes to fight one of the committee reports on a high profile company in the country.
The meeting had been called to discuss the controversial report. Nankabirwa told the meeting that more than 30 MPs pocketed Shs3 million each to throw away the report which her committee drafted after investigations.
She made it clear that the MPs, she did not name, were promised a balance of Shs2m after executing the deal. The Speaker later instructed the Rules committee to investigate the allegations.
From that day, Nankabirwa allegedly became a marked person.
Mean while,Independent MPs who went to Kyankwanzi to attend the ruling NRM party retreat no longer see eye to eye with their chairman Sam Otada (Kibanda). Some of them have since maintained that they are not cowards to walk away from an intellectual discourse on service delivery and the future of Uganda.
Fox Odoi, one of the independent MPs who spoke to PoliticalXtra, said: “It will be abdication of my responsibility and a disservice to my people of West Budama North to walk away from the NRM retreat. We came here to discuss service delivery, economic performance and wealth creation. The President invited us and it will be irresponsible not to participate.”
This view is contrary to Mr Otada’s position that it was wrong for his independent colleagues to attend the retreat and that they did not sit to agree on whether to attend the caucus.
Now PoliticalXtra has been told that what took NRM-leaning independents to Kyankwanzi was not so much to discuss service delivery, or wealth creation but political survival. They have already made clear that they want the ruling party’s backing in a move to tinker with Article 83 of the Constitution so that they can be allowed to cross to any party of their choice at least one year before the general election. Word is that they want to participate in the forthcoming NRM primaries without necessarily losing their seats.