I do not bribe MPs - Museveni

By Vision Correspondent

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has warned political activists against accusing him of bribing National Resistance Movement (NRM) Members of Parliament.

Museveni cautioned the activists to stop claiming that he bribes his party MPs into supporting particular policies. And that if they continued to do so, they would be exposed and prosecuted.

He was addressing members of the NRM Parliamentary caucus gathered for a 10-day retreat at the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi on Sunday.

Museveni said the accusations not only demonise the NRM party, but are also an insult to him as the party president. 

His concern is that the activists have made it a habit to give misleading information to the media.

“Museveni to bribe NRM MPs is a big insult and demonises the chairman of NRM, who is a decorated General of UPDF,” he did not mince his words.

“I am a known mobiliser. I mobilized people in this region to die so as to liberate this country and they did so. What is wrong with me meeting and mobilizing NRM MPs and supporters? 

“Why is it that the non-Movement supporters are always concerned when I meet Movement followers yet they have their own political parties?” the president’s tone was serious.

 He stressed that “we did not want to go to multi-party politics” but were pressured by “those” who cherished the multi-party system.

“Why then are they worried whenever we are mobilizing Movement people?”