We are proud of our crimes, MPs say

Determined. After the NRM expelled four MPs (Theodore Ssekikubo, Barnabas Tinkasimire, Wilfred Niwagaba and Muhammad Nsereko) from the party over alleged indiscipline, the legislators are re-organising themselves into another political plan. Sunday Monitor’s Sheila Naturinda caught up with their legal counsel, Mr Niwagaba, to explain their next move.

6. You sound like you want to form another political party- right?
The truth of the matter is we have not thought about forming a political party, neither are we planning it now but you cannot rule out anything in the future or even a possibility of joining whichever other vehicle believes in what we believe in.

Until our expulsion, we were actually planning to compete for leadership of the party from the position of chairmanship downwards. Maybe this is one of the reasons they felt uncomfortable. And I still have a belief that there is an individual who will gather the necessary courage to challenge the status quo.

7. There is information that you already have a lineup of candidates for the 2016 general polls, who are these?
The fact is even if I had remained in NRM, the candidate we intended to bring was going to defeat President Museveni hands down in the delegate’s conference. It will now depend on those we have left inside the party- how they will reorganise themselves and master the courage we pushed for.
If the person we had identified can be supported, then the possibility of us putting our weight behind him or her will remain very high even when we are outside the party. And the beauty with this person is that he or she remains in Parliament, safe and sound and what is needed now is for him or her to gain the courage.