Ssekikubo Runs To Gen Saleh For Support Towards Censure Motion Against Mpuuga And Colleagues – Saleh Refuses To Engage In Issues That Don’t Concern Him

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Lwemiyaga County lawmaker, Hon Theodore Ssekikubo met with the Senior Defence Presidential Advisor, Gen Caleb Akandwanaho alias Salim Saleh, in Gulu on Monday, July 15, 2024.

Ssekikubo is on a countrywide mobilisation for MPs’ signatures for a motion to censure former Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga and three other backbench commissioners over the Shs 1.7 billion ‘service award.’

A dependable official told ChimpReports News site on Tuesday morning that Ssekikubo reached out to Saleh for the retired general’s support for the censure motion. Ssekikubo was accompanied by Alion Yorke Odria, the Aringa South County MP (Yumbe district).During the interaction, Gen Saleh reportedly told Ssekikubo “not to involve me in your things (censure motion saga).”

“When will you ever grow? Ssekikubo, you need to grow. You want to drag me in this thing?” Saleh quizzed Ssekikubo.

Surprised by Gen Saleh’s response, Ssekikubo pleaded: “General, I want to speak to you in privacy.”

Saleh fired back: “There is no privacy here.”

Ssekikubo was unrelenting: “General, we have been moving in different districts looking for signatures for a motion to deal with corruption in Parliament.”

Saleh did not wait for Ssekikubo to complete his submission: “Please, don’t tell me those things.”

‘Respected figure’

Contacted for comment, Ssekikubo was surprised that his secret meeting with Gen Saleh had leaked to Chimp reports, asking, “How did you know about this?”

He added: “Gen Saleh is not involved in this issue (censure motion). While in Gulu, we engaged him because he is a respected figure and an opinion leader in the area.”

“You know he’s an influential person. We met him in that respect.”

But officials said Ssekikubo wanted Saleh to help him get MPs in Acholi sub-region to sign his motion.Ssekikubo had set the deadline of Friday, June 14, 2024 to raise the required 176 signatures to impeach Mpuuga, Esther Afoyochan (Zombo DWR), Prossy Akampurira (Rubanda DWR), and Solomon Silwany (Bukooli Central). The MPs received Shs 400 million each from the service award.

Terrible Experience

Ssekikubo today said his mobilisation for MPs’ signatures has been a nightmare as MPs continue to play hide and seek games with him.

“As we organise, they demolish,” said Ssekikubo.

“The MPs are telling us to find them in the villages but when we go there, they say they have returned to Kampala,” said Ssekikubo, emphasising, “It’s a terrible experience we are going through.”

Asked to share an update on the progress of the mobilisation for signatures, Ssekikubo said he needed only five signatures to table the motion before Parliament.

“We are looking at only five signatures to go,” he observed.

“We met with religious and cultural leaders. And we are extending our appeal to them to help us in this crusade. We request each one’s support. And the general population.”

The Lwemiyaga lawmaker recently noted that some MPs from the NRM had been warned against signing the censure motion by government chief whip Hamson Obua. Besides the alleged threats, a section of MPs have deliberately refused to sign the censure motion on grounds of comradeship with Mpuuga such as Kira municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju.

Other MPs say the service award was passed by Parliament and it is therefore morally wrong to fault the commissioners.

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