By Our Reporter
Kimanya Kabonera County Member of Parliament, Dr. Abed Bwanika, has called for the resignation of the general secretary of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP), Lewis David Rubongoya, claiming the former National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporter is disloyal.
Bwanika was speaking on CBS radio when he made these remarks, stressing that the party’s current struggles are an architectural signature of Rubongoya, whom he accuses of serving the interests of President Museveni.
According to Bwanika, Rubongoya’s education was sponsored by President Museveni and his first job was on secondment from him, so he does not believe that Rubongoya is now suddenly against the same system that created him.
“If I took my child to school and ensured he graduates with a master’s, would you believe me if I gave up the same child to fight me?” Bwanika Asked.
Bwanika insists that Rubongoya was not part of the original team that founded the NUP but was suddenly given a position to the dismay and surprise of most people. He claims that on many occasions he sought the audience of the party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine, to protest against Rubongoya’s induction into the party leadership, but Bobi Wine dismissed him.
Bwanika also accused the party’s treasurer, Benjamin Katana, of being a mole-like Rubongoya and demanded that both individuals, along with two others, resign with immediate effect.
“If we still want a good NUP, the general secretary should resign and allow us to repair our party,” he said.
NUP’s Rubongoya in 2021 clarified his relationship with President Museveni, saying that the two fell out over the age limit.
“I was a supporter and admirer [of Museveni] like other people who look up to him and over a long time he was my role model. He was someone that I looked up to. First of all, with more education, you begin understanding a few more things about society and how it is governed,” he said during NBS TV’s popular Face-off show.
“The last point of my departure is when the talk of age limit started, removing the age limit from the Constitution for me that was it. The question is about longevity in power and many Ugandans would tell you that they want Gen Museveni to leave power peacefully so that this country gets a new consensus,” he said.
Meanwhile Rubongoya’s colleague Benjamin Katana was very active in NRM structures until the Age Limit debacle when he and other NRM members started a pressure group to stop the removal of the age limit.
Source: Kampala Eye.
