The MP of Nyendo-Mukungwe Hon Mathias Mpuuga has commented on the decision to censure him and three other parliamentary commissioners due to accusations of corruption.
On Wednesday, May 5, he declared that the lawmakers spearheading the effort to remove them from office are leading their fellow lawmakers in the dark.
“Two of the petitioners are advocates. I don’t know why they are leading their colleagues into the dark. I am a political animal, and one of the strengths I have is that I have never failed to make decisions,” Mathias Mpuuga said.
Mpuuga made these remarks during a morning political talk show on one Naguru based media house, NBS TV. The motion to censor these legislators is being led by Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo.
Spearheading the four are Mpuuga and his three colleagues, Prossy Mbabazi Akampurira (a Rubanda Woman MP), Esther Afoyochan (a Zombo woman MP), and Solomon Silwanyi (a Bukoli Central MP).
The parliamentary commissioners allegedly gave themselves a one-time service award of Sh1.7 billion in May 2022. However, things became more complicated for Mathias Mpuuga, who was removed from his position as central region deputy president of the National Unity Platform party.
This was due to allegations that he had received his share of Sh500 million for acting as the Leader of the Opposition prior to the conclusion of his two-and-a-half-year term in December of last year.
Ssekikubo announced to the press on Tuesday in Parliament that they were considering making public the list of signatories to the resolution of censure.
“I am engaging my colleagues to come and show who has appended their signature [to the censure motion], but the bigger picture right now is to try and get the required signatures,” he said.
According to parliamentary procedures, a signature attached to a resolution of censure cannot be removed, and the sergeant-at-arms is responsible for forwarding the list of signatures to the Clerk once the proposed censure has received the approval of at least one-third of the members of parliament.
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The mover of the censure motion would need 176 signatures in total, out of the 529 MPs in the 11th Parliament not counting the 28 ex-officio members in order for it to be placed on the Order Paper.
The formal agenda for parliamentary proceedings on a certain day is published in the order paper.
