Stop Calling Me “Mabati Thief”- PM Nabbanja And LOP Ssenyonyi Lock Horns

Locals at a function in Lukaya to celebrate 25 years of the Episcopal Church attended by Prime Minister Rt Hon Robinah Nabbanja and the Leader of Opposition Hon Joel Ssenyonyi were left in amusement after the two locked horns.

Ssenyonyi was the first to speak and he implored the PM to be key in fighting corruption.

According to the Nakawa West MP, it’s a shame that corruption is eating this country to the core. He pointed out the saga of the iron sheets.

This rocked the country last year when iron sheets meant for Karamoja were stolen and distributed among different government officials. Among those implicated was the Speaker of Parliament Hon Anita Among and Prime Minister Nabbanja.

“Please Madam Nabbanja, let’s fight corruption. This is one of the vices that’s going to kill our country. You madam Nabbanja, are a sister of Kyagulanyi and I tell you this without fear. Let’s fight it. Recently you all heard about the iron sheets scandal which were found in her office,” Ssenyonyi said as the people burst into laughter.

When the Prime Minister stood up to give her speech. She seemed triggered by what the NUP spokesperson had said. She implored Ssenyonyi and everyone else to stop calling her a “Mabati Thief”.

Apparently, a bitter Nabbanja said that just because the iron sheets were found in her office doesn’t mean they were hers. She then pointed out how NUP itself is corrupt highlighting the Hon Mathias Mpuuga 500m shillings saga.

Read her bitter response below;

“Please and please stop calling me a Mabati Thief, especially you NUP, Ssenyonyi and the public. Just because they were found in my office doesn’t mean I was the one who stole them. You just saw how a NUP MP, Mpuuga was in a scandal of swindling Shs 500m, did you see my name there?” implored Nabbanja.

Well, the Prime Minister has been the subject of ridicule from different opposition legislators and the public over time.

However, she has not helped herself either as her office has been implicated in a number of mismanagement of public resources.