UPC to sue Movt over kisanja cash
Nov 03, 2004
THE Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) is considering taking the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRMO) to court over the sh5m being given to some MPs
By Joyce Namutebi
THE Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) is considering taking the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRMO) to court over the sh5m being given to some MPs.
The vice-chairman of the party’s presidential policy commission, Henry Mayega, said at the UPC weekly press briefing at Uganda House yesterday that they had handed over the case to their lawyers to consider the merits and demerits of going to court.
“It is a gray area for us to explore. Our lawyers are handling that,†he said.
The Movement recently gave its MPs sh5m to facilitate them to explain the White Paper in their constituencies.
The UPC parliamentary group chairman, Dr. Steven Malinga (Butebo), said they would also go to court to find out the source of the kisanja money.
In a two-page statement read by Mayega, UPC referred to the money offer as bribery and warned that the judiciary might be the next beneficiary.
“If the legislature is not spared those bribes, then the judiciary might be the next arm of government to be bribed because several litigations against the NRMO’s illegal activities are in the pipeline,†Mayega said. He said
they suspected the money was from the National Social Security Fund.
“UPC puts the NRMO and all those involved in that bribery on notice that the road they have chosen is not only bumpy but also very dangerous for them and will attract serious consequences for each individual involved,†Mayega said.
He warned the Speaker against being compromised “to allow the government hijack the property of Parliament (white paper).â€
Mayega said President Yoweri Museveni’s Government had turned the White Paper it submitted to Parliament into its manifesto.
“These actions of the NRMO will attract court challenges,†he warned.
THE Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) is considering taking the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRMO) to court over the sh5m being given to some MPs.
The vice-chairman of the party’s presidential policy commission, Henry Mayega, said at the UPC weekly press briefing at Uganda House yesterday that they had handed over the case to their lawyers to consider the merits and demerits of going to court.
“It is a gray area for us to explore. Our lawyers are handling that,†he said.
The Movement recently gave its MPs sh5m to facilitate them to explain the White Paper in their constituencies.
The UPC parliamentary group chairman, Dr. Steven Malinga (Butebo), said they would also go to court to find out the source of the kisanja money.
In a two-page statement read by Mayega, UPC referred to the money offer as bribery and warned that the judiciary might be the next beneficiary.
“If the legislature is not spared those bribes, then the judiciary might be the next arm of government to be bribed because several litigations against the NRMO’s illegal activities are in the pipeline,†Mayega said. He said
they suspected the money was from the National Social Security Fund.
“UPC puts the NRMO and all those involved in that bribery on notice that the road they have chosen is not only bumpy but also very dangerous for them and will attract serious consequences for each individual involved,†Mayega said.
He warned the Speaker against being compromised “to allow the government hijack the property of Parliament (white paper).â€
Mayega said President Yoweri Museveni’s Government had turned the White Paper it submitted to Parliament into its manifesto.
“These actions of the NRMO will attract court challenges,†he warned.