Amuriat calls Birigwa for meeting to harmonise differences

This new development comes against the backdrop of the FDC secretary-general’s refusal to fund a FDC delegates’ conference that had been called by Birigwa.

Mafabi said that Birigwa did not inform the party organs, including the secretary-general, who is the principal accounting officer of the party.

In a letter he issued on September 2, Mafabi said that Birigwa only made mention of the delegate’s conference in the media without officially informing the party’s organs.

Birigwa had earlier indicated in the media during the height of tensions between party members that the FDC would be holding a delegate’s conference. This followed demands from some party members who thought that it would be good for the party to have the conference to iron out burning issues.

In a letter issued in August, Birigwa requested Sh638 million to fund the conference, which, according to him, was scheduled for September 19 and was to attract 1,970 participants, including 1,560 delegates and 410 other guests.

Mafabi also accused Birigwa of implementing resolutions made by Kizza Besigye at the Katonga office, which he said was not the party’s official organ.

The party has been in dismay ever since Kira Municipality Member of Parliament Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda alleged that both Nandala and the party president, Patrick Oboi Amuriat, got money from President Museveni with the "intention of selling the party" to the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

Both Mafabi and Amuriat said that Ssemujju’s allegations are unfounded and that the money they received was from safe sources and not from Museveni.