Museveni defends MPs’ cash
Oct 31, 2004
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday issued a statement defending the payment of sh5m to MPs who support the National Resistance Movement organisation (NRMO).
By Hamis Kaheru
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday issued a statement defending the payment of sh5m to MPs who support the National Resistance Movement organisation (NRMO).
He said the money was meant for transport and convening of meetings to explain the White Paper to the population.
Museveni said the insinuation that the money was meant to influence the MPs to support the proposed lifting of presidential term limits was an insult that must stop.
“How can anybody, especially an MP, be bribed with sh5m? This little amount of money is, mainly, meant for transport and convening of meetings to explain the White Paper during the recess,†he said.
He said the NRM would facilitate its workers even more “as the political struggle heats up.â€
Sunday Vision said 75 MPs opposed to a third-term for a president were planning to file a suit in court to compel NRM leaders to declare the source of the money.
Museveni said the “shrill noises†about the funding of NRMO were not actually about funding but about consolidation of NRM support in Parliament.
“The NRM’s support in Parliament has been re-consolidated after a prolonged period of lack of cohesion among the NRM supporters in Parliament,†he said.
Museveni accused the opposition of double standards by not talking about foreign funding for political groups, which was prohibited by law.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday issued a statement defending the payment of sh5m to MPs who support the National Resistance Movement organisation (NRMO).
He said the money was meant for transport and convening of meetings to explain the White Paper to the population.
Museveni said the insinuation that the money was meant to influence the MPs to support the proposed lifting of presidential term limits was an insult that must stop.
“How can anybody, especially an MP, be bribed with sh5m? This little amount of money is, mainly, meant for transport and convening of meetings to explain the White Paper during the recess,†he said.
He said the NRM would facilitate its workers even more “as the political struggle heats up.â€
Sunday Vision said 75 MPs opposed to a third-term for a president were planning to file a suit in court to compel NRM leaders to declare the source of the money.
Museveni said the “shrill noises†about the funding of NRMO were not actually about funding but about consolidation of NRM support in Parliament.
“The NRM’s support in Parliament has been re-consolidated after a prolonged period of lack of cohesion among the NRM supporters in Parliament,†he said.
Museveni accused the opposition of double standards by not talking about foreign funding for political groups, which was prohibited by law.