Mpuuga Vows To Sue NUP Leader Bobi, MP Ssewanyana Over Defamation

Democratic Alliance (DA) coordinator Mathias Mpuuga has announced his intention to sue the National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, and Makindye West MP Allan Ssewanyana for defamation.

On April 6, 2025, at the NUP headquarters, Bobi Wine directed Allan Ssewanyana to collaborate on his wild assertions that Mpuuga, as his deputy president in Buganda, was behind the arrest and three-year detention of Ssewanyana and the late Muhammad Ssegirinya.

Amid coercion by Bobi, Ssewanyana then named Mpuuga and other Masaka MPs, including Abed Bwanika, Juliet Nakabuye Kakande, and Geoffrey Kayemba Solo, as masterminds of their arrest in connection with the Masaka Bijambiya killings, despite being from Kampala.

However, during a press conference on May 7, 2025, at Parliament, in which Masaka City MP Juliet Kakande flanked him, Mpuuga responded to the accusations from Bobi and Ssewanyana, which he termed lies, with the announcement of his intention to sue.

Mpuuga began by sympathizing with the families of those who lost their loved ones in the Masaka killings, expressing disappointment that Bobi Wine had turned their suffering into a joke for political gain.

“I would like to extend my sympathies to the following categories of people. The families that lost their dear ones during that fracas… At the time when you were supposed to see leaders standing with you to pursue justice, the joker emerges to make it his meal…,” he said.

“I extend my sympathies to you. It was never our intention that these killings become a joke! And that some joking politician with no idea of your suffering is making a meal out of your suffering for him to make political capital to make a living for his family,” Mpuuga emphasized.

Mpuuga also sympathized with MP Ssewanyana, saying, “I want to sympathize with my brother, the Hon. Ssewanyana. We witnessed what he went through yesterday. I assume, if Mr. Kyagulanyi had a gun, he would have shot Hon Ssewanyana.”

He cautioned Ssewanyana against reducing himself to an unreasonable person. “Do not reduce yourself to a beggar. Do not reduce yourself to somebody without a brain, but I am here to extend my sympathies to you, the humiliation so that the dear leader can be happy for the afternoon; we understand your problems,” Mpuuga said.

Mpuuga then announced his intentions to file a lawsuit, “to be able to settle some of these issues, Mr. Kyagulanyi and Mr. Ssewanyana’s ilk, we shall meet in court. Probably they will help the court and families who are demanding justice to come and tell the court what they know because they seem to know a bit about what happened in Masaka.”

Mpuuga emphasized that the court will be the best place to help the nation understand the situation better. “The best place to help the nation understand it better is the court. So, I wish them luck, but I want to encourage Ugandans who want to see a new Uganda not to give up and not to be diverted.”

The NUP leadership has spent two years attacking Mpuuga without focusing on the battle against the Museveni-led sitting regime.

Mpuuga’s decision to sue is a new approach he is applying to fight back against the choreographed and sustained character assassination orchestrated by Bobi Wine.