The founders of the National Unity Platform (NUP) have warned party Members of Parliament, councilors, and grassroots leaders against associating with what they called imposters, under the leadership of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.
According to Moses Nkonge Kibalama, the founder and president of the NUP, the self-proclaimed leaders based at Kavule are not the rightful constitutional leaders of the party.
“At the meeting convened by the Electoral Commission on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, the Commission dismissed the Rubongoya-NUP constitution, which was smuggled into the NUP file at the Electoral Commission’s political party’s register,” Kibalama said.
“The implication of this development is that the Electoral Commission cannot continue with gazetting amendments to the fake NUP constitution, and therefore, transactions or actions based on that fake document are null and void. Whoever has faith, hope, and dealings with the NUP Kavule group does so at their own risk and peril,” he added.
He made remarks during a press conference held at the Speke Hotel in Kampala on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
Simbwa Kagombe, the Secretary General of NUP, also warned against exercises of membership registrations, stating that it is all an exercise in futility, and those who continue in such delusion will only have themselves to blame.
He also revealed that some Kavule leaders have hired goons to trail the founders of NUP, such as Kibalama, among others.
“We wish to inform the general public that we have established that Lewis Rubongoya and Benjamin Katana hired elements to trail the movements and monitor the homes of NUP founders in disagreement with them. May we now state that for whomever these two men claiming to be freedom fighters are working, we will never be scared of them, and we shall not be deterred from our set course of cleaning up the party we found,” Kibalama said.
According to Simbwa, the NUP constitution is in high court, where the true owners of the party will be revealed.
However, all efforts by Nexus Media to get a response from Lewis Rubongoya, the Secretary General of NUP based in Kavule, were in vain.
