NUP to welcome back Mpuuga if returns money, apologizes – Kyagulanyi

By Charles Katabalwa

1^st March 2024

The National Unity Platform (NUP) party has set conditions to welcome back the former Leader of Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga with open arms.

This comes after NUP asked the Masaka Municipality Member of Parliament Mpuuga to resign from his position as parliamentary commissioner following his admission to receiving 500 million shillings.

In a statement released by the NUP secretariat on Thursday evening, party President Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, convened a meeting with senior party leaders after corruption allegations surfaced against several NUP officials, including Mpuuga, the former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, and other commissioners.

Kyagulanyi, while addressing the NUP Councilors from Wakiso district in a retreat on Friday at the party headquarters at Makerere- Kavule, in Kawempe division, noted that once Mpuuga apologizes, returns the money that he allegedly got from Parliament as a “service award”, he will be embraced back in the party.

He further says that the party is also waiting for Mpuuga’s humble resignation from the post of Commissioner of Parliament to consider him for other positions.

Kyagulanyi says these conditions were resolved by the top party organ that sat recently but not him as an individual.

He however emphasized that the party is not ready to associate and cover any member involved in such acts that are contrary to NUP norms, only that those found guilty will be named and shamed.

Kyagulanyi now calls upon all party members to stay focused and value the blood of their supporters who have died and those still in jail during their struggle for a better Uganda.

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