A number of supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) hailing from the Greater Mukono region have mounted pressure on their respective Members of Parliament to sign the Parliamentary Commissioners’ censure motion in the shortest period of time.
Led by the Mukono district NUP registrar, Richard Lugoloobi Kasiriivu, the supporters including the NUP Kunga mobilization unit leaders have given the legislators an ultimatum of only 24 hours to append their signatures on the censure motion or face the wrath of the voters.
Lugoloobi says the intention of the censure motion is to penalize the said corrupt parliamentary commissioners and also deter the rest of the MPs who had positioned themselves as commodities to be bought at the expense of their voters who are in villages suffering without a number of social services and alarming taxes.
The team addressed the media at the Mukono district party office located at Kavule cell in Mukono Municipality on Thursday morning.
The censure motion, spearheaded by the Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament Theodore Ssekikubo targets the four Parliamentary commissioners who received what they termed as service award.
Among the affected parliamentary commissioners is the Nyendo-Mukungwe legislator Mathias Mpuuga who is said to have received sh500m, while the other commissioners reportedly received sh400m. Other commissioners include; Esther Afoyochan (Zombo DWR), Prossy Akampulira (Rubanda DWR), and Solomon Silwany (Bukooli Central).
“We take this great opportunity to inform all our beloved members of parliament from Greater Mukono (Mukono, Kayunga, Buikwe and Buvuma districts) that as the NUP members we take serious the stand of the party to have the affected parliamentary commissioners censured, unfortunately, we are worried as we wait to see you sign the impeachment motion but in vain,” reads part of the document which the supporters released on Thursday.
“It’s upon that background that we call on you to please act as we have already given you backup as your electorate. We hope to have this done in 24 hours starting with today, failure to comply, we shall be compelled to act accordingly,” the NUP supporters said.
Kyaggwe TV has learnt that only two NUP legislators hailing from Greater Mukono have already appended their signatures on the censure motion. These include Hanifah Nabukeera Luswata, the Mukono district Woman Member of Parliament and Abdallah Kiwanuka Mulimamayuuni representing Mukono North Constituency.
The NUP MPs who are still relaxed upon signing the censure motion they include; Betty Nambooze Bakireke (Mukono Municipality), Fred Ssimbwa (Nakifuma County), Patrick Nsanja (Ntenjeru South-Kayunga district), Charles Tebandeke (Bbaale County-Kayunga district), Jimmy Lwanga (Njeru Municipality), among others.