Kyagulanyi summons NUP parliamentary caucus

The President of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi, has summoned all legislators affiliated to the party for an urgent Parliamentary Caucus meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

Sources say the meeting, at the party headquarters in Kavule, Kampala, is to discuss the current standoff in the leading Opposition political party.

According to a number of NUP legislators who did not want to go on camera, they have all received invitations from the Party inviting them for an urgent meeting with Kyagulanyi.

Even when the agenda of the meeting has not been shared with legislators, NBS TV has learnt that the current standoff between the Party President and the Opposition Commissioner Robert Kyagulanyi is going to be key on the Tuesday agenda.

In this meeting, the Party President is expected to lobby NUP legislators to sign the motion that will see Mathias Mpuuga lose his seat as a Parliamentary Commissioner and replace him with Francis Zaake, the MP for Mityana Municipality.

The other issues to be discussed is the ongoing misunderstandings among NUP supporters in Greater Masaka, something that forced hundreds of NUP supporters to allegedly cross to the Patriotic League of Uganda that is headed by Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

The Caucus meeting is also expected to discuss the issue of the alleged money NUP Mps have been receiving with the recent batch being last week where each legislator received 50 million Ugandan shillings after pocketing another 50 million shillings in December last year.

The other issue is the increasing number of rebel MPs in the party where they constantly attack the Party leaders questioning their style of leadership in the media.

Those that have been lined up to be questioned as rebel MPs include Dr Abed Bwanika of Kimanya-Kabonera, Entebbe Municipality MP Kakembo Mbwatekamwa, Charles Tebandeke of Bbaale County, Jimmy Lwanga of Njeru Municipality, Dr Twaha Kagabo of Bukoto South, Masaka City Woman Mp Juliet Kakande, among others.

The increasing trend of the party supporters attacking and abusing leaders on social media is also expected to be discussed at this caucus meeting of NUP.

The National Unity Platform has 57 MPs but it’s not yet confirmed on whether all the legislators will attend the caucus meeting;