Former Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Hon. Mathias Mpuuga has released a statement responding to allegations made by National Unity Platform (NUP) leaders who asked him to resign over corruption matters.

In a statement released yesterday February, 29, NUP leaders informed the public that they had a meeting on Wednesday, February, 28^th where they discussed about issues concerning corruption matters on Mpuuga and other 3 members of NUP whose names were not disclosed in a statement. NUP leaders including the party’s president Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine said Mpuuga admitted to have received Shs. 500 million under the guise of service awards.

According to the press statement from NUP, during the meeting, Mpuuga admitted that he indeed took part in the said allocation of money and apologized for the same. It is from here, that NUP leaders advised Hon Mpuuga to resign from his position as the commissioner of parliament days after they had dropped him as the leader of opposition in parliament. 

After these allegations, Commissioner of Parliament Hon Mathias Mpuuga(From NUP party) has released a statement responding to NUP leaders confirming that he won't resign. According to Mpuuga's statement, he is aware of different party leaders who have been official in undermining his work including hiring of bloggers to abuse and insult him as aperson.

Mpuuga sais he will not stop raising questions on the actions, motivation and direction of different actors in the party doing much to undermine him. He said he won't resign from his position as commissioner of parliament as advised by his party leaders, based on spite and deliberate misrepresentation for mischievous reasons.