Lwemiyaga Member of Parliament Theodore Ssekikubo and Tororo Woman MP Sarah Opendi have released a list of legislators who signed the censure motion to censure four commissioners of parliament who allocated themselves Shs1.7 billion.
Last month, a section of legislators led by Ssekikubo embarked on the process of collecting signatures to censure Parliamentary Commissioners including the former Leader of the Opposition Mathias Mpuuga.
According to the list, at least 142 MPs of the 177 needed to table the motion have appended their signatures.
The Parliamentary Commission’s leaked documents show how in May 2022 the former Leader of the Opposition (LoP), Mathias Mpuuga, commissioner Solomon Silwany, Prossy Akampurira, and Esther Afoyochan met and shared the money.
According to these documents, Mpuuga was awarded a one-off service payment of Shs500 million, while three commissioners from the National Resistance Movement each received Shs400 million. The biggest opposition party in Parliament, the National Unity Platform (NUP), resolved to recall Mpuuga as the Parliamentary Commissioner but failed because according to the parliamentary procedures, it’s majority in parliament who can censure a commissioner
The commissioners are faulted because proposal was supposed to first go through the legal and parliamentary affairs committee before it is tabled before the whole House for debate and approval. Every individual who gets retirement benefits, be it the speaker, vice president, or others, has to have it discussed and passed by parliament.
