Members of Parliament have withdrawn the censure motion against General Elly Tumwine after failing to collect the required signatures.
By Wednesday evening 39 MPs had appended their signatures on the censure motion against Tumwine out of the required 153.
Parliament started the process of censuring Tumwine for frustrating investigations into the torture of Ugandans and also blocking Members of Parliament in the Human Rights Committee from doing their work.
MPs that initiated the censuring process have canceled it because of sluggishness toward the motion on the part of MPs.
Gen Tumwine is accused of contempt of parliament, interfering with the Human Rights committee investigations of torture in safe houses and blocking Brig Col Kaka Bagyenda the Director of Internal Security Organization (ISO) from appearing before the Committee.
Mbwatekamwa Gaffa, the Kasambya county MP the man who activated the censure document says only 39 signatures were collected which is way below the number needed for the motion to proceed. He described MPs as hypocrites for foiling the entire process.
last week Theodore Sekkikubo the Lwemiyaga county Mp was quoted as saying a number of MPs are shy to append their signatures because Gen Tumwine is a big moneylender at parliament and most of them are defaulters on their loans.
He noted that even members of the Human Rights Committee who authored the report urging punitive action against Tumwine are fearing to sign the petition.
The censure motion was first moved by Butambala MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi on February 5 after the parliamentary Human Rights Committee recommended that the general be punished for contempt of parliament.
