Minister Namuganza urges Ugandans to vote out MPs blocking censure motion against Parliamentary commissioners
Namuganza further asked both the religious and traditional leaders not to interfere with the ongoing exercise of censuring Parliamentary Commissioners, saying corruption is such an immoral act for one to hold negotiations about.
Persis Namuganza, the Minister of State for Housing has asked Ugandans to vote out all MPs who refuse to append their signatures to the censure motion, which is seeking to remove the four Parliamentary Commissioners from office.
The officers including Esther Afoyochan (Zombo DWR), Prossy Akampulira (Rubanda DWR), Solomon Silwany (Bukooli Central) and Mathias Mpuuga (Nyendo-Mukungwe) are accused of sharing amongst themselves Shs1.7Bn in service award and paying themselves Shs23M on top of their salaries, without prior authorization from Parliament.
According to Namuganza, the corruption in Parliament has become unbearable, to the extent that MPs like her see some hidden documents and wonder who the clerk to Parliament is giving out money to in a wasteful manner, with no details on what that money is going to do.
“I am asking all MPs who haven’t signed the censure motion to hurry up and if they don’t, I want to ask Ugandans to vote them out if they return asking for votes because they will be useless, and their actions would indicate that they support corruption,” said Minister Namuganza.
She said there are people who have been acting as saints like Hon. Mathias Mpuuga, yet during her censure she wasn’t accused of any corruption, adding that “but he came out saying we want to sanitize Parliament and we want integrity, but I am not seeing his sainthood. We don’t want this process to interfere with religious or traditional leaders, we can’t hold negotiations over corruption. Our party NRM is losing support due to corruption, so as I am against corruption and wish to continue seeing my party in power, I have appended my signature to the censure motion,” added Namuganza.
Namuganza further asked both the religious and traditional leaders not to interfere with the ongoing exercise of censuring Parliamentary Commissioners, saying corruption is such an immoral act for one to hold negotiations about.
She claimed that some top leaders at Parliament are spreading fake news that President Museveni isn’t in support of the current censure motion, saying such talks make it seem like the President is condoning corruption, which isn’t the case.
The Minister said the President always communicates through letters and NRM caucus and since no such avenue has been used, the MPs should go ahead and append their signatures to the censure motion.
