Uganda, April 14 -- A section of city lawyers and human rights activists have petitioned the chairperson of the Leadership Tribunal asking that the latest recipients of a service award be prosecuted.

The lawyers want Section 8(a) of the Constitution to be invoked to prosecute Mr Mathias Mpuuga, the immediate past Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP), and three others who split Shs1.7b of taxpayers' money as a service award in May 2022.

Mr Mpuuga, who is now a parliamentary commissioner, was allocated Shs500m. His colleagues, also parliamentary commissioners, Mr Solomon Silwany (Bukooli County), Ms Prossy Akampulira Mbabazi (Rubanda DWP), and Ms Esther Afoyochan (Zombo DWR), received Shs400m apiece in the one-off payment.

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