Masaka municipality MP Mathias Mpuuga has continued his verbal attacks on President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, December 19, over the government’s anti-poverty programmes.
Mpuuga using his favourite medium, Facebook once again openly criticised NRM’s flagship project, Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), asking the president to stop the confusion and misleading the people of Masaka.
The Democratic Party (DP) politician was reacting to President Museveni calling him a ‘madman and hypocrite’ during Vice President Edward Ssekandi’s Thanksgiving at Kkindu Secondary School Grounds in Kyanamukaaka, Bukoto Central, Masaka on Saturday.
He mentioned dumping and the tones of mangoes, passions fruits, pineapples are rotting away.
Mpuuga claimed: “For challenging the modus operandi of Operation Wealth Creation, especially by confusing poor communities with unwanted seeds, Mr. Museveni (President) calls me insane!
“Yours truly thinks, whoever tries to confuse the impoverished farmers of Masaka with citrus fruits is overdue for Butabika.”
“Tones of mangoes, passions fruits, pineapples are rotting away, we cannot add oranges whichever name called! I don’t know army coffee or bananas rotting away.”
“I will fight this confusion as long as I live! We need disease free banana stems, coffee seedlings, cows for zero grazing, pesticides, hand-irrigation pumps; not citrus fruits, stop the confusion, stop misleading our people.”
Mpuuga insists that about 10 years ago after government developed the Prosperity for All (Bonna bagaggawale) framework, Uganda was divided into agricultural production zones but does not remember seeing Masaka in the zones for growing citrus fruits, but instead a coffee and banana growing area.
Earlier this month, president Museveni and MP Mpuuga were involved in an exchange before an audience that turned up for the commissioning of the newly-constructed Shs13 billion market at Nyendo in Masaka Municipality.
Mpuuga’s blunt speech excited the crowd. Some people in the largely NRM gathering clapped and cheered on the MP who went as far as reminding the president about the activities of his NRA guerrillas that looted Masaka cooperative Union.
Mpuuga’s persistent challenge to Museveni caused discomfort among the presidential protocol staff on several occasions.
