In a Thursday press conference at parliament, Kivumbi said the money to the MPs is intended as a handshake for having endorsed the coffee amendment bill which nullified the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), and as an incentive to support the UPDF bill calculated to restore the military courts with powers to try civilians.
The acting Leader of Opposition, the Butambala MP Muwanga Kivumbi has directed opposition members of parliament implicated in benefiting from the sh100m bonanza to immediately return it or else face exposure and denial of party tickets for the 2026 election race.
In this light, a list was put up for those who never picked the money to append their signatures with a strong pledge never to touch what the opposition MPs continue referring to as sinful money. By press time, more than 31 legislators had appended their signatures.
In a Thursday press conference at parliament, Kivumbi said the money to the MPs is intended as a handshake for having endorsed the coffee amendment bill which nullified the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), and as an incentive to support the UPDF bill calculated to restore the military courts with powers to try civilians.
Muwanga Kivumbi, who also serves as the NUP vice president for Buganda region told journalists that whenever there is a contentious issue in the offing, government resolves to tricks of dishing out cash incentives to lure MPs in supporting the government stand, and cited the 2005 bill to remove term limits during which MPs pocketed sh5m, and then during deliberation to remove presidential age limit where parliamentarians were given a sh29m incentive.
“Government keeps asking for supplementary and classified budgets with no specifics on what the money is intended for, and the sh100m to MPs was passed as a classified budget; it is unfortunate that a legislator who earns a lot of tax payers’ money can go the extra mile and compromise his country’s development over sh100m”, Kivumbi noted.
He advised opposition MPs who had picked the money to return it immediately, adding that on Monday, a list of those who declined to pick it will be made public.
The MPs who attended the press conference signed the list, and some of them are Muwada Nkunyingi (Kyadondo East), Hellen Nakimuli (Woman Kalangala), Ronald Nsubuga Balimwezo (Nakawa East), Timothy Batuwa (Jinja South East), Wakayima Musoke (Nansana Municipality), Yusunf Nsibambi (Mawokota South), Aloysius Mukasa (Lubaga North), Francis Zaake (Mityana Municipality), Erias Nalukoola (Kawempe Noprth), and Betty Ethel Naluyima (Wakiso Woman).
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