Uganda, March 3 -- The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party has issued a statement insisting that the only option left for the former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LoP) is to resign.

"The moral thing for him to do would be to apologise to the nation and step down from the Parliamentary Commission. That remains his choice," Mr Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine said of Mr Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba in a statement released yesterday.

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While appearing on CBS radio yesterday, Mr Mpuuga defended his actions, saying he has never been caught in a web of corruption as NUP seems to purport. He also described the decision to cut him loose as unilateral, saying the party's top organs didn't...