His expression grave and his words emphatic, former Mayor Al Haji Nasser Ntege Ssebaggala declared on Thursday the wrangles in Democratic Party had crossed “many, many lines” and abruptly changed his views of President Norbert Mao. But he refused to say what the Mukono Municipality MP and the vice chairman of the party in charge of Buganda Betty Nambooze might do in response.
Speaking to NBS TV, he blamed the wrangles squarely on Mao’s people, though the embattled DP leader and his backers including EALA MP Fred Mukasa Mbidde deny that. He suggested that Nambooze should not appear before the organisation’s disciplinary committee but instead called for dialogue and respect.
“I think they summoned the wrong person. I quit DP long time ago. After a delegates conference in Mbale, we disagreed with some of the things that the party was presenting and we quit.” Ssebagala said, “What DP should do is to dialogue with its members rather than summon them for disciplinary action.”
Addressing the party’s weekly press conference at the party headquarters in Kampala on Tuesday, the party deputy spokesperson, Mr Mufumbira Waiswa said Ms Nambooze is expected to answer for her indiscipline when she went ahead to try to convene a conference at Nsambya Sharing Hall, which the party president Norbert Mao had stopped.
However, Ms Nambooze laughed off the summons saying she did not have a genuine reply to Daily Monitor because she had not yet been summoned.
“But even if I was summoned, I would not attend because the complainants Mao and Fred Mukasa Mbidde, his deputy, who used ‘their fellow hooligan’ [Waiswa], can’t be the complainant and the judge at the same time in any case against me,” she said.
