The Leader of Opposition in Parliament-LOP Mathias Mpuuga has asked Ugandans to stop questioning why the National Unity Platform-NUP leadership has not joined Rtd. Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye in the protests against the skyrocketing commodities prices.
According to Mpuuga, NUP leaders made their recommendations in Parliament on how the skyrocketing commodity prices challenges can be resolved by the government but nothing has been done.
He said the government has left Ugandans to suffer, which should have compelled all Ugandans to rise up against the bad governance and stop questioning what opposition leaders are doing.
Speaking about the just concluded Omoro parliamentary by-elections, Mpuuga said the exercise was marred by violence, vote bribery, and the highest levels of criminality, orchestrated by the NRM regime.
David Lewis Lubongoya, the NUP general secretary said despite all the evidence of vote-rigging that marred the Omoro by-election they won’t go to courts.
The electoral commission declared the National Resistance Movement-NRM party candidate, Andrew Ojok Oulanyah the winner of the Omoro County Parliamentary by-election with 14,224 votes defeating his closest National Unity Platform-NUP rival Simon Toolit Akecha who got 633 votes in the May 27th, 2022 polls.
