{"id":74956,"date":"2024-06-07T04:38:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mpuuga-camp-criticise-nup-registration-plan"},"modified":"2024-06-07T05:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:01:51","slug":"mpuuga-camp-criticise-nup-registration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/mpuuga-camp-criticise-nup-registration-plan","title":{"rendered":"Mpuuga camp criticise NUP registration plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>A section of National Unity Platform (NUP) members in Masaka have criticised the party leadership for issuing membership cards during mobilisation tours, saying the move will not achieve the desired goal.<\/b><\/p>\n

The group, which is allied to Parliament Commissioner and Nyendo\/Mukungwe County MP Mathias Mpuuga, said not everyone who attends rallies is a genuine NUP member deserving of a party card.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis arrangement which is not well thought through will give the party disloyal members who will easily be bought,\u201d Mr Joseph Kasirye, the NUP Masaka City registrar , who was speaking on behalf of the group, said during an interview at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Mr Kasirye said the mobilisation tours, which the police have since suspended over the NUP leadership\u2019s reported failure to adhere to agreed-upon guidelines, are unproductive.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just go vending party membership cards at rallies like popcorns or groundnuts because they may end up in the hands of the wrong people who will come out tomorrow and start claiming that they have defected to other parties. This should be stopped forthwith. We use party branches to recruit new members who can be traced and verified,\u201d Mr Kasirye said.<\/p>\n

On April 29, NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, launched a campaign to register party members. The exercise is part of NUP\u2019s wider arrangements to organise party structures from the grassroots to the top leadership.<\/p>\n

Mr Kasirye said the mobilisation tours do not reflect the party\u2019s strength in the areas where they have so far been held. He claimed many of the attendees at these tours are from Kampala, which he argued does not contribute to increasing the party\u2019s support in rural areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keenly followed what was going on at the Masaka Recreation Grounds on May 31 where the latest party mobilisation tour took place and realised that many of the people who were in attendance travelled from Kampala. This practice of ferrying people to venues is common in NRM (National Resistance Movement) and as Opposition, we shouldn\u2019t copy it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Mpuuga, who is the former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, had earlier described the Masaka mobilisation tour as \u201ca fanfare\u201d, saying he would not attend the event.<\/p>\n

Ms Alice Nanungi, the representative for Nyendo Ward in the Masaka City Council, urged those who believe the ongoing update of the party\u2019s register and the mobilisation tours should be conducted differently to participate in the preparation meetings and share their views, rather than criticising from the sidelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose colleagues chose to rebel against the party and whatever they are saying about NUP shows that they are not holding the true aspirations of our party,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mr Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, the NUP deputy party spokesperson, said party members subscribing to the Mpuuga camp have no right to question any NUP programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cA leader like him (Mr Mpuuga) knows how the party operates and that is how we are operating. I don\u2019t think there is any problem with that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

MPUUGA-NUP SAGA<\/b><\/p>\n

Nyendo\/Mukungwe County MP Mathias Mpuuga fell out with NUP\u2019s top leadership over a controversial Shs500m \u201cservice award\u201d he received as Parliament commissioner.<\/p>\n

In March, NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, suspended Mr Mpuuga as NUP vice president for Buganda Region over the \u201cservice award\u201d.<\/p>\n

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