NUP List: 12 out of 34 NEC members decided Mpuuga’s fate

Only 10 out of the 28 NUP NEC members sat on Friday morning to determine the fate of the party’s Deputy President and Commissioner of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga.

Although the decision reached on Friday afternoon is not binding to Parliament, most of the NEC members refused to attend the meeting which was sitting for the first time in a year.

Amongst those included the Deputy President in charge of Northern Uganda Lina Zedriga, Western Region Jolly Mugisha, Deputy Spokesperson Waiswa Mufumbiro, Mobilization Secretaries Andrew Kaluya, Daniel Kabagambe, the Youth Leader Francis Zaake, Secretary General Lewis Rubongoya, treasurer Benjamin Katana, the Head of Institutions David Musiri and two others including Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu, Ssasi Marvin.

Sources within the Party told this website that NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi, LOP Joel Ssenyonyi did not attend the meeting with apologies.

The constitution of the NUP National Executive Committee is of 28 people most of whom are said to have deliberately dodged the meeting.

The meeting resolved that Mpuuga be recalled from the Parliament Commission appointment and be replaced by Francis Zaake.

The constitution of today’s meeting leaves lingering questions of whether the NEC meeting was legal since it never had two thirds for the composition.

“The NEC Members deliberately refused to join. The do not see certainty in the party and feel, Mpuuga may break the institution into two,” a highly placed source told this website.

Mpuuga had earlier been ordered by the Party President Robert Kyagulanyi to step down as Commissioner of Parliament a position he rejected on grounds that it had been arrived at illegally and without investigation.

He however was asked to explain himself which he allegedly did. However. The meeting today said, his explanation was not satisfactory.

Details follow.