I don’t interrogate my party President, says Mpuuga on Bobi Wine’s antigay remarks

The Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga, has asked Ugandans to wait for NUP President, Robert Kyagulanyi, to explain what he meant when he said some Opposition MPs are working for NRM and had been influenced to support the Anti-Homosexuality Act.

He made the remarks while addressing journalists at Parliament on Monday, December 11, 2023.

In a recent interview with the BBC, Kyagulanyi claimed that the law, supported by over 90% of Members of Parliament, was not passed in the interest of Ugandans but as a tool to oppress the opposition.

“Please wait for the President to have a press conference and ask him to explain what he meant, probably, it would be a good opportunity for you and the nation to know what he exactly meant, I don’t know what he meant. I don’t interrogate my party president, but I am sure he will have the occasion to explain to the country,”he said.

Mpuuga also welcomed the sanctions imposed on Commissioner General of Prisons, Johnson Byabashaija, saying such sanctions provide an opportunity to hold all people involved in human rights violations accountable, for the way they exercise authority while in positions of power.

According to the LOP, Uganda is part of the global family of humans, and matters that concern Ugandans whose rights are being violated by people in positions of protection, in positions of responsibility is a very serious matter.

“If you are Prisons, they bring you a suspect tortured, you don’t accommodate that suspect. The fact that they haven’t come out, not to accept the tortured victims, it is the reason why they must account.

A prisoner whose matter hasn’t been heard is presumed innocent, but also, there is no where in our penal laws where a person charged and found guilty is supposed to be tortured.

So it all represents violation and we welcome these sanctions, I hope they offer the necessary lessons to all and sundry that human rights must be respected,” said Mpuuga.