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Unlike the Minister Namuganza and MP Zaake Censure motions which legislators in the 11th parliament signed without even questioning WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHICH and HOW, the motion to censure the four parliamentary commissioners Mathias Mpuuga, Solomon Silwany, Esther Afoyochan and Prossy Mbabazi has suffered a huge blow.
The four commissioners are accused of sitting in a meeting with speaker Anita Among and decided to scramble and partition a whooping Shs1.7billion among themselves in what they politely named a Service Award to themselves.
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During the partitioning, the then Leader of Opposition now parliamentary commissioner Mathias Mpuuga [Nyendo-Mukungwe] got Shs500m, Solomon Silwany [Bugiri Central], Prossy Mbabazi [Rubanda District] and Esther Afoyochan all went home with Shs400m. The Uganda Law Society and several other agencies have all described the awards as illegal, irregular, null and void but one the beneficiaries insist there’s no cause for alarm.
Three weeks amidst threats, intimidations and some reported juicy trips to Members of parliament, the censure motion mover Theodore Ssekikubo [Lwemiyaga County] has given up and is almost conceded after failing to get the required 177 signatures to cause for a motion.
The motion suffered a huge blow when NRM legislators were ordered by their Chief Whip Hamson Obua not to dare append their signatures or else suffer the questions. Obua while issuing the directive said that it’s the only the party chairperson Museveni to guide what the MPs have to sign.
Obua’s directive came after some NRM MPs and a Minister Persis Namuganda had already signed, they’re even those defiant one’s who signed after the directive. They’re also opposition MPS like Ssemuju Nganda, Medard Lubega Ssegona, Joyce Bagala among others who refused to sign because of the too much friendship they have with Mpuuga.
Theodore Ssekikubo (Lwemiyaga County) has admitted that three weeks after the launch of the collection of signatures to censure the four Commissioners accused of awarding themselves Shs1.7Bn service award, the team behind the exercise has failed to garner the 177 signatures… pic.twitter.com/XAjM38VzeA
— Parliament Watch (@pwatchug) June 10, 2024
Ssekikubo says, he’s however hopeful that maybe some MPs will sign the censure motion including the accused commissioners to give it life to go to the next stage to be debated upon.
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