Uganda minister for environment, Beatrice Atim Anywar, requested the parliament to consider setting up a salon at the new parliament building to offer makeover services for legislators.
According to MP Beatrice Anywar having a beauty parlor would help facilitate female MPs needs before house sessions.
"In our new building, for the sake of ladies, probably we could also have a salon established; because you look at us as we are because we take time to prepare ourselves. My hair and nails are part of the woman. What I am really saying is that we ladies can come early, spend more time in the salon and then the house,” Anywar said.
She argued that the legislators have a tight schedule, including long plenary sessions and constituency work, which may limit their free time to work out.
Recently the parliament got its own gym, but female MPs say vigorous exercise leaves their hair disorganized, leaving few MPs willing to use the facility.
Ugandan female MP demands for an in-house beauty salon in parliament