Mathias Mpuuga admits to receiving Shs 500m “service award”, ordered to step down
According to the newly appointed LoP Joel Ssenyonyi, this development follows an ongoing online protest under the #UgandaParliamentExhibition.
Former Leader of Opposition Mathias Mpuuga has been ordered by the National Unity Platform Leadership to step down as Parliamentary Commissioner over corruption allegations.
According to the newly appointed LoP Joel Ssenyonyi, this development follows an ongoing online protest under the #UgandaParliamentExhibition.
“The protest aims at exposing the massive corruption, abuse of office, and gross mismanagement of public affairs by the leadership of Parliament and other leaders,” he noted.
Unfortunately, the protest has not only revealed grand corruption on the side of NRM leaders. Some leaders on the opposition side have had serious allegations of corruption leveled against them.
Ssenyonyi noted that Mpuuga alongside three other Parliamentary Commissioners have been accused of irregularly awarding themselves huge sums of tax-payers’ money on the pretext of “Service Awards”.
“Under the scheme, Mpuuga was allocated 500,000,000/= (Five Hundred Million Uganda Shillings”
On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi convened an urgent meeting comprised of senior leaders of the Party including all Deputy Presidents and some of our senior legislators.
“At the meeting, Rt. Hon. Mpuuga admitted that he indeed took part in this wrong doing and apologised for the same. In light of this, he was strongly advised that the moral thing to do in the circumstances is to step down from his role as Parliamentary Commissioner with immediate effect,” he said.
