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Ssekikuubo to Push On with Censure Motion Despite Court's 1.7 Billion Verdict

13 August, 2024
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Lwemiyaga County MP, Theodore Ssekikuubo says the court ruling in the 1.7 billion shillings “service award” has not erased his censure motion against the Parliamentary Commissioners.   



Justice Douglas Karekona Singiza, of the Civil Division of the High Court in Kampala early on Tuesday ruled that the five hundred million shillings (500,000,000) paid to the former Leader of the Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga and three other Commissioners as a service award was approved by Parliament and formed part of the budget presented by the executive.

The judge in effect exonerated three other commissioners who each received four hundred million shillings. The court said the Parliamentary Commission did not breach any law by awarding the Commissioners the services award.

 

Mathias Mpuuga using his X formerly Twitter welcomed the ruling over the matter that has been under discussion over the last eight months. However, as parliament sat on Tuesday Theodore Ssekikuubo who has been at the forefront of collecting signatures for the censure of Mpuuga and three other backbench commissioners said their motion was still standing despite the ruling of the High Court.

 

MPs pushing for the debate of the censure motion insists that the Commissioners acted wrongly when they sat and shared the controversial service award yet it was not part of the emoluments of an MP. 

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