By KT Reporter
Lydia Wanyoto, a CEC member in NRM, says she was part of the meeting which decided to give MPs 100m each.
She says they had gone to discuss the new budget as NPA bosses and the president then told them he had information that many MPs were chocking on debts.
Wanyoto says Museveni feared that the MPs may distort the budget if they are angry and hungry yet he wants the budget to be aligned with the NRM manifesto and NDP 4.
She says the president told them there was need to give each MP 100m so that they become soft and pass the budget without making unneccessary changes on his proposals.
In a weekend speech to her voters in Mbale, Wanyoto said the speaker and deputy speaker of parliament were both consulted and involved in the decision. She makes it clear that all MPs from Mbale city, including Karim Masaba of NUP, got the 100m.
She says they should share with the voters because they too are broke yet their reps got the money. In a video which has gone viral on tik tok, Wanyoto says the president acted in good faith in order to reduce on MPs’ financial misery.
She tells voters to consider electing generous people like herself because there is no way she can get 100m and doesn’t share with voters on easter.
She also says she is a very claver daughter of Bugisu which is why the president put her on NPA and also in CEC because those need superior brains and great thinkers like herself.
Wanyoto’s revealations have caused problems for several NUP MPs including Denis Ssekabira of Katikamu in Luwero.
NUP area leaders led by Brenda Nabukenya have jumped on the Wanyoto video to demand that Ssekabira calls a press conference and assure foot soldiers that he didn’t pick the money.
Nabukenya and group are saying that Ssekabira is a very good friend of Karim Masaba who must have influenced him to react positively to the Museveni offer.
They are demanding that Ssekabira goes beyond signing on Joel Ssenyonyi’s papers by becoming very outspoken against the 100m.
They want him to attend more public functions and be heard cursing the president for giving the money and fellow MPs for accepting to take it.
Nabukenya badly wants Ssekabira out because she says he is closely working with one of the NUP women wanting her Luwero woman MP seat.
The Nabukenya camp also wants Ssekabira to explain where he is getting money to set up a radio station in Luwero town. Ssekabira says he isn’t scared of propaganda from Nabukenya’s group because voters are the final judge. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
