By Sylvia Nankya
A Coalition of civil-society organisations have opted for legal action against the parliamentary commission in attempts to recover sh6b given to members of Parliament last month.
The organisations include Uganda National NGO Forum, Uganda Debt Network [UDN], Uganda Governance monitoring platform [UGMP], Forum for Women in Democracy [FOWODE], Action Aid Uganda and Anti corruption coalition of Uganda [ACCU].
Initially, they had issued an ultimatum of February 4 to the MPs to return the money as part of its “Respect your Honor and Return our money” campaign.
By yesterday only 12 MPs, mainly from the opposition have returned the money. They Include; Beatrice Atim Anywar, Hussein Kyanjo, Latif Sebaggala, Nabbilah Naggayi, Sebuliba Mutumba and Suzan Nampijja among others.
“We shall file a petition in the constitutional court requesting the court to declare that the money was issued illegally because it was never approved by Parliament as required,” Martha Nanjobe, UDN’s director of programmes said.
She said they would also appeal to the court to direct the parliamentary commission to recover the money.
“The intention is to have each Member of Parliament take the responsibility to refund the 20 million shillings,” Nanjobe added.
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