The showy National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairman for Mbale district, Muhamood Masaba, has distanced himself from allegations that he has amassed a lot of wealth from unexplained sources.
Masaba told EagleOnline that he is not ‘a poor person’ but that allegations he recently dubiously got over Shs10 billion are mere assertions brought against him by his political detractors.
“I am yet to find out why this this smearing campaign that I am rich and that I got money from unexplained sources. I am seeing those that I defeated in our local politics here (Mbale) involved in it but I cannot rule out that certain individuals especially from opposition are unhappy with me because of what I did to them as far as our party is concerned,” he said.
Sections of the media last week ran stories that Masaba had recently accumulated a lot of money through land deals and also from an unknown Asian rich tycoon.
Masaba was among the key people Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi relied on to penetrate Eastern Uganda and more especially the Elgon zone. He indeed gave NRM and security apparatus hard time but was finally persuaded to rejoin the NRM party.
