The Member of Parliament for Nyendo-Mukungwe, Mathias Mpuuga has said that the National Unity Platform (NUP), activists have discarded the struggle to oust President Museveni and the National Resistance Movement and must be replaced because they have outlived their usefulness as far as the struggle is concerned.
Mpuuga said they (NUP activists) have now resorted to abusing him at the cost of making concrete plans for Museveni’s removal from power, and swore that his Democratic Alliance pressure group is set to continue the struggle and bringing it to its conclusive and meaningful end.
Mpuuga was over the weekend unveiling his newly founded pressure group, the Democratic Alliance at a function held at Maribu Gardens at Bakuli in Kampala. However, close opposition allies with whom he deserted Robert Kyagulanyi’s NUP were conspicuously absent.
Notably among whom were Medard Lubega Sseggona (MP Busiro East), Joyce Bagala Ntwatwa (Mityana Municipality Woman MP), Michael Kakembo Mbwatekamwa (MP Entebbe Municipality), Richard Lumu (MP Mityana South) and others.
When contacted for a comment, Medard Sseggona said he had other pressing commitments adding however that he was fully rallied behind Mpuuga’s actions, saying it was the immediately available solution to removal of what he called the dictatorship.
MPs including Joyce Bagala and Mbwatekamwa, said they are in Kenya where they went to participate in the East African parliamentary games, while Richard Lumu who was not specific, said he is in Kenya on official duties.
Notable officials in attendance included Samuel Lubega Mukaaku who was the chairman of the organising committee, Michael Mabikke both of the DP Block, and other prominent public figures from many districts.
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Addressing participants, Mpuuga said the Democratic Alliance is the front which he is using to conduct his political agenda, including fielding candidates at all local government and parliamentary positions up to the topmost office of the president.
He spoke highly of the function organisers including Michael Mabikke, Lubega Mukaaku and Henry Lubowa as very experienced organisers, and far sighted people in political matters. Also in attendance were Kimaanya-Kabonera MP Dr. Abed Bwanika, former Lubaga North MP Moses Kasibante, Juliet Kakande, officials from JEEMA, DP and Social Democratic Party and the DP Block.
Star singer Patrick Mulwana, popularly known as Alien Skin, stunned the gathering when he said that he decided to be an ally of Mpuuga because they had something in common. “I was charged for stealing a mobile phone while Mpuuga is charged for misappropriating sh500m; this similarity in conduct will be a binding force between us,” Alien Skin who is out on court bail said.