CORRUPTION COSTS MUKAAKU NUP FLAG

Rubaga South Constituency MP aspirant Mukaaku Lubega has revealed that corruption in the NUP vetting process has cost him the party flag in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

While appearing on NBS’s Barometer talk show, Mukaaku said that his competitor, Aloysius Mukasa who was handed the NUP flag was on record bragging about how he was in touch with the party’s Secretary-General Lewis Rubongoya and that there was nothing the vetting committee could do to deny him the flag.

Another source privy to the matter exposed that Aloysius Mukasa paid an unspecified amount of money to Kyagulanyi Robert the party president, Lewis Rubongoya Secretary-General NUP and Fred Nyanzi the party’s chief mobilizer.

Mukaaku inveterate the corruption allegations when he outed that Aloysius Mukasa who was handed the NUP flag didn’t complete the vetting exercise and different vetting procedures were used on the two candidates.

Mukaaku also revealed that he wrote his complaints with evidence attached, to the party president and the spokesperson however his complaints have fallen on deaf ears implying that they were mollified with the money paid by his opponent.

Many other contestants have expressed concerns on the recently concluded party vetting process, saying it was dominated by corruption and tribalism.

This has left many Ugandans in need for change for the better distressed since the young party has attested to be the most corrupt.