The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, was compelled to vacate a burial function for the father to the Opposition Chief week after the National Unity Platform boss affronted the NRM Party.

Tayebwa, while addressing mourners called on the opposition at all levels to stop politicking government programmes but instead encourage the public to benefit from them.

“You should work for your people because they don’t feed on politics… these programmes are for the people; so, educate them so that they can benefit,” Tayebwa said.

NUP boss Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, was permitted to address mourners shortly after Hon Tayebwa. He started by rebuking the National Resistance Movement government for fueling human rights violations against citizens.

He then confronted Tayebwa to publicly apologise for hitting an UMEME employee in 2020 if government is serious about curbing rights abuses.

Bobi Wine explained that besisdes his apology and compensation to the said employee, it would be more befitting of him to apologise to the public to rebuild  trust.

“You have to come out and apologise to the nation and after you do that you will be right honourable speaker but as for now you are wrong honourable speaker.” he stated

He also claimed that members subscribing to the NRM Party are now openly torturing Ugandans alluding to a recently a viral video clip showing a man being tortured by a group of people, allegedly subscribing to the NRM party.

In the video recorded at a guest house in Ggaba, Kampala, one of the tormentors is seen clad in an NRM Tshirt tying the  legs and hands of the victim with barbed wire, while his body is burnt with molten plastic. However, the NRM party has since denied affiliation to the tormentors and incident.

“This is shameful to the NRM party, it is these rights breaches allegedly perpetrated by state security and government actors,” Bobi Wine said.

Hardly had he concluded his mocking remarks than the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Tayebwa, stormed out of the burial ceremony.

His office later released a statement indicating that Hon Tayebwa had an official engagement in Entebbe.

Bobi Wine also called on the government to provide better health service delivery in Uganda to minimize travels abroad . He explained that had it been for a proper health care system  in the country, Hon. Nambeshe’s father would not have traveled to the neighbouring Kenya for treatment.

Hon John Baptist Nambeshe was however grateful to all members who attended the burrial. In a tweet he worte.

“I wish to express my sincere gratitude to my Party President and , the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon.Thomas_Tayebwa, 60 MPs, fellow leaders at all levels and friends for attending the funeral of my father, Papa Henry Enerico Masolo in Bududa District.” He wrote