“Shut up on corruption issues because you too are corrupt,” LOP Ssenyonyi’s dirty money revealed
As social media National Unity Platform (NUP) members continue to languish calling themselves foot soldiers in defence of their cracking political party, shocking revelations reaching The Eye Media Political Desk indicate that their own leader of Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi is not clean.
Ssenyonyi, if we go by bank documents seen by the publication received shillings 16,235,000, disbursed to his bank account just to visit a patient in Nairobi, Kenya.
The seemingly authentic bank document making rounds on social media has not been refuted by the National Unity Platform.
Serving as the Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Parliament, Ssenyonyi, who is the Nakawa West legislator, recently launched a campaign exposing what he calls corrupt corporates at the Parliamentary Avenue.
If indeed he received the 16m just for a visit to Nairobi , Ssenyonyi has no moral authority to question or ‘expose’ any other person believed to be corrupt, a charged social media user has posted.
His campaign comes after the controversial corruption stories of the former LOP, Mathias Mpuuga, who was accused by his darling NUP for reportedly pocketing shs500m as a gratuity for his significant performance in the August House.
The Nyendo-Mukungwe lawmaker (Mpuuga), who was ordered by NUP to step down as the opposition’s Parliamentary commissioner, was accused together with three National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentarians who each received shs400 million.
The latest now puts Ssenyonyi down as a receipt dated February 9, 2024, from the Bank of Uganda, indicating that the legislator received shs16 million from the Government of Uganda single treasury account to make a courtesy visit to the Kawempe North MP, Muhammad Ssegirinya battling illnesses in Aga Khan, Kenya.
The amount of money is abnormal for one to travel to the neighbouring country, Kenya, who has since created mixed reactions among social media users.
Ssenyonyi, according to reports, wants to lead a vote of no confidence against the speaker of Parliament, but his emerging dirty background would make the move futile.
The Eye Media’s efforts to reach the leader of opposition to acknowledge the details remained unsuccessful.
