Bukomansimbi Woman Member of Parliament Veronica Nanyondo has withdrawn her signature on a motion seeking to censure the four Commissioners of Parliament who are implicated in the service award.
Nanyondo has written to the Speaker of Parliament seeking to withdraw her signature from the motion censoring the four back bench commissioners of Parliament.
“Rt. Hon Speaker I was hoodwinked into appending my signature to what was disguised as an attendance list to a meeting called by the Leader of the Opposition in his Department’s Boardroom this morning.
To this end, I am writing to categorically withdraw my signature and disassociate myself from the said list as it was in bad faith and I was misled into signing,” writes Nanyondo.
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).
After signing the motion on Tuesday last week, on May 28, 2024, together with other opposition legislators, the Leader of Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi said the service awards were an irregularity and that the commission should have taken the right legal steps.
“What happened is an irregularity; for colleague leaders to sit and award themselves money, they would have been vindicated if they had suggested it in a meeting and taken it through the relevant committee of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to bring it on the floor of Parliament for discussion,” he said.
The censure motion, spearheaded by MP Theodore Ssekikubo (Lwemiyaga County), was also signed by the minister of state for housing, Hon. Persis Namuganza, who claimed she was pushed to sign the motion by her desire to fight corruption.
“Our party, NRM, is losing support due to corruption, so as someone who is against corruption and wishes to continue seeing my party in power, I have appended my signature to the censure motion,” she said.
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