National Resistance Movement (NRM) councilors in Bushenyi district are up in arms with the party secretariat protesting non payment of their money meant for facilitation during the 2011 general elections.
124 NRM councilors are demanding over 70 million shillings from the secretariat and the district party boss. Each of the councilors was supposed to get Uganda Shillings 500,000 to campaign for the party.
Since then, majority of the councilors have been complaining about the facilitation but with no positive response.
This has forced the aggrieved councilors to storm the office of the area resident district commissioner Gaston Maliro to express their dissatisfaction with the party for which they worked hard to win the polls. The party emerged victorious with 68% of the votes in the 2011 presidential elections and with over 220 seats in parliament.
In their petition handed over by Mrs.Twine Mutyaba alias Mama Kyama, the councilors accuse Hassan Basajjabalaba, the district NRM chairperson of deliberately refusing to meet them despite several requests.
Kakuru Katawire Benon, speaker Kyabugyimbi sub county council, alleges that last year, the party chairman only paid the Ishaka-Bushenyi municipality councilors where his young brother, Nasser Basajjabalaba was seeking election.
Basajjabalaba was later elected as MP but his election results were cancelled by the Court of Appeal over election bribery and he is now seeking re-election in the same constituency.
Alex Kiiza and Kamagara Winnie, the councilors representing Kyamuhunga and Nyabubare sub counties say they are ready to demonstrate and surrender their party cards if their money is not released immediately.
When contacted for a comment, RDC Maliro said he was in touch with the NRM Secretariat in Kampala to have the councilors paid but was not sure when the money would be released.
Basajjabalaba could not be reached as his known telephone numbers unavailable.
