At the same time a row between the former members of the Democratic Party (DP) who joined the NUP just before the last election led by the opposition leader until December Mathias Mpuuga has deepened over Mpuuga's acceptance of 500 million shillings (US$130 000) in cash (see Box The profits of silence)...
Former Leader of Opposition Mathias Mpuuga confessed to a private internal enquiry by the National Unity Platform (NUP) that he had accepted $130 000 allocated by the Parliamentary Commission...
The current division in the NUP is between Wine and his supporters on one side and a group of MPs led by Mathias Mpuuga who joined the NUP after leaving the DP in time for the 2021 general election (AC Vol 62 No 2 Iron fist carries the day)...
Mathias Mpuuga leader of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) in parliament sees the borrowing as evidence that the government is in dire economic straits increasing the debt burden while starving the private sector of credit...
Police posted pictures of their special deployment to the region on social media attracting the scorn of NUP MP Mathias Mpuuga the official Leader of the Opposition whose constituency is in the Masaka area...
They include Mathias Mpuuga a former Minister for Youth Affairs at Mengo and Betty Nambooze the popular DP member of parliament for Mukono North who defeated Museveni’s National Resistance Movement in a by-election in 2010 on a Baganda rights platform...
