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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The former Leader of Opposition, Mr Mathias Mpuuga has said he will not resign from his current Parliamentary commissioner position, contending that the advice from his party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), to do so is based on falsehoods and \u201cterrible misapprehension of facts.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

NUP officials on Thursday evening asked the party deputy president (Buganda region) to step down barely three months after he was appointed as parliamentary commissioner.<\/p>\n

This was on allegations of corruption and abuse of office<\/p>\n

However, in a Friday statement, the Nyendo-Mukungwe MP dismissed claims that he received Shs500 million \u2018service award\u2019 from Parliament fraudulently.<\/p>\n

According to him, the money was allocated to him legally by a Commission in his capacity as a Leader of Opposition after being subjected to the relevant committees of Parliament for legality, feasibility, sustainability and relevancy.<\/p>\n

“To call any such payments corruption is the highest level of spite, double standards and deliberate misrepresentation to the public and membership of the Party on a purely selfish mission,\u201d Mpuuga\u2019s statement read in part.<\/p>\n

\u201cI accordingly decline the cowardly call on me to resign as a parliamentary Commissioner, based on spite, envy and deliberate misrepresentation,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Mr Mpuuga reiterated that there is an inside deliberate and funded campaign to character assassinate him, vowing to sacrifice himself to restore sanity and \u2018common sense\u2019 in the national and party politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became the official style of different party leaders to undermine my work, including hiring bloggers to abuse and insult my person….. I stayed committed and calm throughout these most compelling times, because the call to serve above self remained my creed,\u201d Mr Mpuuga said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish to assure the general membership of NUP and all change seeking forces that this shall remain my resolve; and I cannot be deterred by small-group-family interests being peddled to blur the bigger picture of how the Party is being managed without transparency,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mpuuga\u2019s reaction follows the NUP party statement that was shared by the party president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi yesterday, in which the top leadership of the party advised him to step down from the Parliamentary commissioner position over Shs500m \u2018service award\u2019 which was reportedly allocated to him while still serving as the Leader of Opposition.<\/p>\n

The party noted that advice was offered to Mr Mpuuga during a Wednesday meeting which was attended by the party top leaders, including the president and all his deputies. In the same statement, NUP revealed that Mr Mpuuga had acknowledged and apologized for his wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

However, Mpuuga has denied attending the alleged meeting, emphasizing that he only shared his views about the matter with the party comrades \u201cin an informal conversation at the party offices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Mpuuga urged the party to compel all the party members to refund all the funds they have received in form of gratuity since all MPs have received gratuities at various occasions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf such payments [the Shs500m] amounted to corruption, all current and previous MPs would be compelled to refund to the public coffers monies paid as gratuity or honoraria since no MP, current and previous was not paid gratuity at the determination of the parliamentary Commission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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