By Kabuye Ronald
The former leader of opposition in parliament now commissioner of parliament, Nyendo- mukungwe legislator, also NUP deputy president Buganda region, Rt. Hon. Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba has fired back at the leadership of the National Unity Platform NUP assuring them that he will not resign as commissioner of parliament on mere falsehood and malicious allegations of corruption and abuse of office.
Mpuuga said the campaign to character assassinate him is deliberate and he is perfectly aware, it’s well-orchestrated and well-funded. But he is ready for the worst, if it takes his sacrifice to return sanity and common sense to the politics.
On Thursday evening, the National Unity Platform (NUP) asked Masaka Municipality MP Mathias Mpuuga to resign from his position as parliamentary commissioner following his alleged admission to receiving 500 million shillings.
Mpuuga has clarified that the decisions of the commission are not personal and for anyone to purport to make them person decision of an individual is a deliberate, well-crafted malicious campaign design for character assassination since it’s the commission that votes funds to all political offices, including the LOP’s office.
Mpuuga committed that he will not be deterred by small-group- family interests being peddled to blur the bigger picture of how the party is being managed without transparency and the general mistreatment of other leaders in the party.
MPUUGA’S FULL STATEMENT BELOW
In a statement released by the NUP secretariat, the party President Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, convened a meeting with senior party leaders after corruption allegations surfaced against several NUP officials, including Mpuuga, the former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, and other commissioners.
The allegations implicated Mpuuga and other commissioners in irregularly allocating large sums of money to themselves under the guise of service awards, with Mpuuga reportedly receiving 500 million shillings.
According to the press statement from NUP, during the meeting, Mpuuga admitted that he indeed took part in the said allocation of money and apologized for the same.
