Uganda, Feb. 29 -- Ministers, legislators and other officials were Thursday forced to use the Parliament's exit route to access the House as hundreds of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) casual workers blocked the entrance route in protest over their unpaid salaries and wages for five months.

The group comprising largely of charged elderly women accompanied by a few men armed with placards descended from the neighboring City Hall in Kampala and stormed the Parliament's entrance demanding a way through to petition the Speaker on a number of issues, which among others, included unpaid salaries, unpaid NSSF and threats to terminate their contracts by Authority leaders.

The Thursday 2pm scuffle between the casual workers and Parliamenta...