Mpuuga service award letter was forged

"The Presidential Press Unit - PPU wishes to inform the General Public that the letter circulating on social media purportedly authored by H.E The President on the subject of service awards to Parliamentary Commissioners is forged and should be ignored," reads a May 13 statement from PPU.

The Parliamentary Commission in March of 2022 paid Shs500 million to Mpuuga and the cash was dubbed a service award.

The former backbench commissioners received Shs400 million each.

In the forged letter that was addressed to Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka, the president had dubbed the decision to give Mathias Mpuuga that kind of cash primitive accumulation of wealth.

The forged letter Pulse Live Uganda

"When we were fighting Obote and Amin, we used to call it primitive accumulation of wealth," Museveni said.

"Why? Officials under those regimes were trying to get for themselves as much money as possible in the quickest time possible, in the easiest way possible. We used to ask them, 'Where does this leave your country?'"

The letter was written a day after Museveni wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo explaining that the UK government had briefed him on the sanction of Speaker Among and former Karamoja Affairs ministers Mary Goretti Kitutu and Agnes Nandutu.

The revelations, in March last year, found Among to have received at least 500 pieces of iron sheets.

President Yoweri Museveni and Speaker Anitah Among pulse uganda

The Speaker promptly bought replacements that she returned to the Office of the Prime Minister to clear her name.

Mathias Mpuuga, who served as the Leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2024, is the current member of Parliament representing Nyendo-Mukungwe Division.