When Things Harden , The Law Comes In!! Mathias Mpuuga Runs To Court Over Censure Motion
Tension continues to pile up at the Ugandan parliament as motion movers Theodore Ssekikubo and Sarah continue to collect signatures to remove the four commissioners of parliament including Mathias Mpuuga.
The Service Award which only became public few months ago at the instigation of the #UgandaParliamentExpo on social media with top parliament secrets getting exposed.
Speaker Anita Among chaired a meeting shortly after the burial of fallen Speaker Jacob Oulanyah in March 2022 and in that meeting, the then Leader of Opposition a alongside other three NRM commissioners awarded themselves a whooping Shs1.7bn.
Mpuuga himself got the lion’s share of Shs500m while the other three back bench commissioners Solomon Silwany, Esther Afoyochan and Prossy Mbabazi all got Shs400m each as service awards.
NUP acted swiftly and passed a vote of no confidence on Mpuuga over the same saying the service award he got tantamount to corruption.
Bobi Wine would later suspend him as his deputy president in-charge of Buganda but Speaker Anita Among poured cold water on their attempt to recall him as their commissioner.
However, Lwemiyaga County legislator Theodore Ssekikubo and Tororo District Women Representative Sarah Achieng Opendi launched a serious motion with vibe to collect signatures to cause a motion for removal of the commissioners who awarded themselves.
Despite threats from the government Chief Whip Denis Hamson Obua and his Deputy Kinobere warning NRM legislators not to append their signatures on the censure motion as they await what the president tells them, some including Minister Persis Namuganza have signed and have pushed the signature collection tally to around 150 out of the 177 needed to cause the motion for removal.
Now in a video seen by this publication as Bugiri Municipality Legislator was arguing with the motion movers at the signature collection table at parliament, he revealed that he had got instructions from Mathias Mpuuga and Solomon Silwany [who equally hails from Bugiri] to run to court and stop the signature collection.
According to Basalilwa he’s going to court on behalf of Mpuuga and Silwany to stop the signature collection and also sue the motion movers Ssekikubo and Opendi and also sue the over 145 Members of Parliament who have appended their signatures in support of the motion.