Alebtong NRM members accuse MP of failing party
Alebtong NRM supporters during the meeting at Aloi Trading Centre on Saturday. PHOTO BY BILL OKETCH
ALEBTONG. A section of NRM members in Alebtong want disciplinary action taken against the district woman MP Ms Rebecca Otengo Amuge and three top NRM leaders they accused of failing the party in the district.
Ms Otengo is also state minister for Northern Uganda but has no position in the district NRM leadership hierarchy.
The aggrieved members claim, however, that the minister is playing double standards since she allegedly campaigned for opposition candidates in 2011 elections.
They accused her of being a UPC supporter.
In a meeting held at War Child Resource Centre at Aloi Trading Centre on Saturday, the group, comprising sub-county and parish leaders, said Ms Otengo, the district NRM chairman, Mr Francis Omaramoi, Mr George Ongom Lango, (district party treasurer), and the party administrative secretary, Mr Joseph Onap, have done a disservice to the party.
During the same meeting, they moved a motion calling for their removal from the positions they hold.
Mr Patrick Okullo Okeng, also the Amugu Sub -county LC3 chairperson, moved the motion and was seconded by the district LC5 councillor of Akura Sub-county also NRM women league Chairperson Ms Barbra Akech.
In a petition to NRM electoral commission chairperson, Mr Tanga Odoi, dated May 2, 2015, a copy of which this newspaper has obtained, the group said they resolved that Ms Atengo and the three party officials should also face NRM disciplinary committee for compromising the party interest for their selfish gain.
“Failure by our national party leaders to address our grievances as Alebtong NRM members and supporters we shall have no option, but to go against the party code of conduct,” the petition, copied to the President, reads in part.
Mr Odoi said he had neither seen nor received a copy of the said petition.
“The politics of Lango is of hatred, rumour mongering, which is very bad for the region,” Mr Odoi told Daily Monitor in a telephone interview yesterday.
Ms Otengo in a telephone interview with Daily Monitor on Tuesday said she has never supported the opposition. “All the allegations against me are not true, they are not speaking the truth, they are the ones instead failing the progress of the party through their endless fights,” she said.
