By Caroline Kirabo
President Yoweri Kaguta Museven officially began the three-day conference at the Speke resort hotel in Munyonyo.
It should be noted that 56 countries fall into the Common Wealth category.
The British itself, which ruled these countries, didn’t attend the summit.
The speaker of the Canadian parliament, who inaugurated the conference in 1969, has also not appeared at the ongoing speakers’ conference in Munyonyo.
The British Commonwealth countries of Europe, Malta, and Cyprus did not have their speakers present.
The British colonies of Africa, as well as the Pacific and Caribbean countries, were the ones who mostly attended this summit.
Kenyan parliament speaker Moses Wetangula, in a video from the ongoing debate, complained about the British speaker’s failure to attend the summit.
Wetangula added that they have heard that the UK itself persuaded some countries not to send their speakers to the summit in Uganda.
According to the Ugandan parliament, only 33 speakers attended the conference out of the 43 who had confirmed their attendance.
Since Uganda passed the same-sex marriage ban, European countries, including Canada, Britain, and others, have warned it and promised to impose sanctions on Uganda on various issues, which could be one of the reasons for their refusal to attend the summit.