{UAH} Mafabi, allies absent from top FDC meeting

KAMPALA- Out-going Leader of Opposition in Parliament Nathan Nandala Mafabi yesterday skipped a Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.

The meeting had been convened to discuss the party strategy and electoral reforms a head of 2016.

Mr Mafabi did not pick repeated phone calls, but his aides privately revealed that he spent the better part of yesterday at his Parliament office.
Party stalwarts allied to the Budadiri West MP were also conspicuously absent at the party’s headquarters in Najjanakumbi.

Mr Jack Sabiiti (treasurer), Hassan Kaps Fungaroo (Obongi County) and Semujju Nganda (Kyadondo East) all missed the meeting that also thrashed out the party’s position on electoral reforms ahead of the 2016 polls.

Mr Fungaroo voiced the fiercest opposition to Mr Wafula Oguttu’s appointment in a NEC meeting that approved the Bukhooli Central MP.

In separate telephone interviews, MPs Sabiiti and Fungaroo said they had “commitments” which forced them to miss the meeting.

“I received the message late and I had many commitments. When you attend a meeting this week and you are called for another next week, it disrupts. I had other programmes,” Mr Sabiiti said.

Ms Wadada Femiar (Woman MP, Sironko) who attended a couple of rallies Mr Mafabi held in his home district of Sironko last week that culminated in his supporters announcing their exit, also missed.

Only Mr Roland Mugume (Rukungiri Municipality) and William Nzonghu (Busongora North MP) attended the meeting.