Bobi Wine ready to let dissenting MPs go

Bobi Wine said on Wednesday evening that the anti-corruption campaign would be a “good reason to split up the party” if worse comes to worst.

“If rejecting corruption is what will split us as a party, that is a good reason for splitting because this is what split us from Museveni in the first place,” he said.

“It seems that we have some members who have been in the struggle too long and now they are okay with corruption as long as they get something to eat as well. We have many of them.”

Bobi Wine was speaking on Radio Simba in light of the widening divide in the leading opposition party, where some key officials are challenging his leadership and the way he handled the Mathias Mpuuga matter.

It was reported this week that nearly half of NUP MPs did not turn up for a meeting Bobi Wine called at the party offices, and that most never sent apologies for not attending.

Bobi Wine said, however, that the party will not be compromised by these individuals.

“We have things that govern us as a party and these are; discipline, reliability and integrity. When we were starting this term, we made our MPs swear to fight corruption in Parliament and not accept to be bought,” he said.

“But many of us left that line; the likes of Twaha Kagabo, Jimmy Lwanga and now Abed Bwanika,” he said.

Bwanika last weekend launched a scathing attack on Bobi Wine’s leadership, calling for the removal of the party Secretary General, David Lewis Rubongoya.

However, in yesterday’s radio show, Bobi Wine hit back at the Kimanya-Kabonera MP, comparing him to the biblical woman who tried to have a friend’s baby split up into two.