Prime Minister Nabbanja is unserious - Mpuuga

Mpuuga was replying to Nabbanja's assertion that the Opposition walked out of Parliament due to political posturing.

On Thursday, October 19, 2023, Nabbanja dismissed the Opposition's proposal to walk out of Parliament, stating it is one of their ploys to destabilise the NRM Government, but these plots will fail.

“You will realise that the political tempers are becoming high in our political divide. And so, people like to be seen doing something, so however much you tolerate them, they have a mission, their mission is to collapse the Government and we shall not allow it,” Nabbanja said.

In a brutal reply, Mpuuga claimed that the Prime Minister has created a career in unseriousness, “so he won’t waste his energy explaining her unserious character to Ugandans”.

“Some people come and find themselves where they are as an accident of human history. So if she found herself there, what should I do? That is all that the NRM has for a Prime Minister so we can only deal with her in her form and we sympathise with her judgement. I think she’s professionally unserious,” Mr. Mpuuga told reporters at Parliament on Thursday afternoon.

He added, “I think she’s professionally unserious, so that is how I can summarise her, if there is a career in unseriousness, she is an expert. So I don’t really want to expend my energies in explaining her conduct. But her conduct is all out for everybody to see and put her in her rightful place.”

He also characterised the government's statement on human rights breaches perpetrated against NUP supporters as superficial and shallow, claiming that the statement was polluted by material falsehoods and was created in an attempt to simply oppress and clamp down on political dissent in Uganda.

The Opposition has since asked Parliament to explain whether it is complicit in the wanton murders by failing to demand accountability and justice for deceased Ugandans killed at the hands of State security agencies, because the relatives of the deceased are still grieving and have no hope of ever receiving justice for their loved ones' deaths.

David Muhoozi, State Minister for Internal Affairs, questioned the authenticity of remarks by the Opposition that it has become fashionable to target Muslims in arrest for murders in Uganda, saying such statements are objectionable in nature.

“I saw the Leader of Opposition try to galvanise effort for his paper even the claim that Muslims are targeted which I find objectionable,” he said.