In other news, President Museveni has also signed the Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 into law and it’s implementation takes immediate effect unless Court strikes it down when petitioned.
The bill which was controversially passed on 5th May this year and was the last house business for the 11th parliament presided over by the now embattled former Speaker of Parliament also Bukedea Woman MP Annet Anita Among.
This legislation had among the many sections sought to monitor foreign transactions, terming Ugandans living abroad as foreigners, employees of foreign owned businesses operating in Uganda as agents of foreigners and many other sections.
Despite the bill being rejected entirely by all stake holders who faced the committee which was processing it, legislators especially from the NRM were directed to support it’s passing and sent to the president who has assented to it today.
The signing of the Protection of Sovereignty Bill into law comes at the heels of troubling times for former Speaker of Parliament of Annette Anita Among who is facing accusations of illicit wealth, money laundering and corruption.
Two out of her many houses have since been surrounded off by security and undergone serious searches with report suggesting that money stuck in boxes and vaults was found.
Joint security teams from police and UPDF mounted a 16-hours house search inside Anita Among’s Nakasero residence and are currently doing the same at her other residence in Kigo along Entebbe road and all her other homes in Kololo, Kyanja and Bukedea are set to undergo the same.
If the charges leveled against her especially Money laundering are connected to the Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026, she might be the first Ugandan to be charged under such new law she seriously fought to pass before the 11th parliament concluded it’s business.
President H.E. @KagutaMuseveni has given his assent to the Protection of Sovereignty Act, 2026, after it was passed by Parliament.
The law aims to defend Uganda’s sovereignty by controlling unlawful foreign interference in the country’s political, security, and economic affairs… pic.twitter.com/YWjVOjaTQf
— State House Uganda (@StateHouseUg) May 17, 2026
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