The Commissioner of Parliament, who is also a member of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Mathias Mpuuga, has lashed out at his party president, Robert Kyagulanyi, for childishly handling leadership matters in the Makerere-Kavule-based political party.
Mpuuga, who was speaking at the burial ceremony of Bugweri County Member of Parliament (MP), Abdu Katuntu’s brother, Ramathan Waiswa, in Bugweri on April 4, 2024, sent a ridiculing message to Kyagulanyi through NUP’s deputy spokesperson, Waiswa Mufumbiro, who was among the mourners, warning him to take comedy out of party leadership since it is not a joke.
“There’s a reason we have leaders and the led. Leadership is not for jokers. It’s for very serious people,” Mpuuga said while hitting on Kyagulanyi’s incompetence to lead NUP through misapprehensions that are currently prevailing in Uganda’s leading opposition political party, which have seen Mpuuga relegated from being a deputy party president for the Buganda region to just a member.
This follows Kyagulanyi’s failed attempt to replace Mpuuga from the Commissioner of Parliament post after the two leaders fell out over money-related issues and mismanagement of their political party.
According to Mpuuga, it is comical for Kyagulanyi to think of, let alone try to replace him as a commissioner of parliament, without furnishing himself with the legal procedure that mandates the replacement of a commissioner of parliament.
He further notes that Kyagulanyi has no authority to remove him from the deputy party president post since the party constitution they are operating under does not permit it. Mpuuga called on Kyagulanyi, who holds a diploma in music, dance, and drama, to find out what it takes to train a competent lawyer so that he can appreciate the need to have a proficient lawyer’s counsel before taking decisions with legal ramifications.
The utterances by Mpuuga come amidst a rift amongst NUP members that has put the party in shambles and derailed it from their said goal of causing regime change in Uganda.
