Parliament has distanced itself from the alleged payout to legislators.
This follows a claim by the National Unity Platform party that MPs had been paid 40 million in cash from Parliament.
They said that NRM MPs received their share at parliament on Saturday and some on Sunday night while the opposition MPs picked their share from the speaker’s residence.
The President of the National Unity Platform, the biggest opposition party in parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu had also held a crisis meeting at the party headquarters in which he demanded that MPs who subscribe to the party should return the money in question.
Mr. Chris Obore, the Director of Communication and Public Affairs at Parliament however said that the institution was not aware of such transactions and instead advised the National Unity Platform to interest the accountability Committees in the matter with evidence for action if indeed there has been any such payment by Parliament to MPs outside known procedure.
Mr. Obore explained that the MPs who NUP claims received the money are duty-bound under Section 10 of the Penal Code Act 2002 (as amended) to declare the same to the Inspectorate of Government for proper investigation. Obore warned that the image of Parliament should not be sacrificed at the altar of internal party intrigue. END