LOP to respond to Government statement on Tuesday 

The Leader of Opposition (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga is expected to respond to the Government statement on the alleged issues of human rights violations on Tuesday.

Mpuuga last week asked the Speaker to grant him up to Tuesday to respond to the statement.

Mpuuga wondered why the Government took 40 days to respond to the demands of its people saying a 17-page statement to take 40 days shows extreme weakness of the Government.

“It is a 17 page document, authored over a period of 40days, if you divide 17 by 40, it can speak to the number of paragraphs authored each day. We appreciate the attempt to respond to this. It should never take anybody with any power 40 days to respond to the needs of the people, especially when it relates to rights. And it is 40 days plus two and half years. I don’t need forty days, I will be back on Tuesday,” said Mathias Mpuuga.

The Minister of State for Internal Affairs, General David Muhoozi, who presented the Government Statement, described the remarks by Mpuuga that Uganda is among the worst human rights abusers as false and generalistic in in nature.