In his Wednesday 1st February letter of two pages, addressed to the Speaker of Anita Among, ex-Workers MP Dr. Sam Lyomoki ends with a reference to what the Holy Scriptures proclaim in Mathew 10:28. The scripture thereof refers to the need to fear not fellow man but only God who has the capability to destroy both the spiritual and physical aspects of a human being.
In the same letter, Lyomoki proceeds to exhibit his fearlessness by assuring Among that he won’t be appearing before the Mpaka Mwine-led Select Committee of Parliament inquiring into the conduct of business at NSSF, where he serves as one of the members of the Governing Board, anymore.
Lyomoki, a veteran trade unionist who heads COFTU as Secretary General and on whose behalf he sits on the NSSF Board, asserts that the Mpaka Mwine-led Committee is incurably biased against him and his organization called COFTU, the very reason he isn’t prepared to appear before it again.
That on Tuesday, he acted in good faith and appeared before the Committee to give his evidence but he was shocked to the marrow when a clique of hateful and renegade COFTU members were given a platform to attack and humiliate him while asserting slanderous and libelous stuff.
One of the accusations that were made against Lyomoki, who is also a medical doctor and former Makerere University Guild President, was that he is also involved in a bonking relationship with saucy Peninah Tukamushaba who is the Deputy Secretary General of COFTU.
The two also represent thousands of COFTU members on the NSSF Board but adversaries within the same organization dispute the circumstances under which this came to be the position or state of affairs. And during the Tuesday Committee session, it was asserted that Lyomoki manipulated the process to determine COFTU‘s representatives on the NSSF Board to pave way for himself and his alleged girlfriend, the very beautiful Peninah Tukamwesiga. The same was corroborated by the comical-talking Richard Job Matua who was accorded audience by the Committee in the capacity of whistle blower.
Comical Matua demanded for the disbandment of NSSF Board on grounds that it partly comprises of people who used thigh power to ascend office.
In his letter, Lyomoki says the Committee acted unfairly in allowing alot of time to his adversaries to make such libelous claims which he was never allowed chance to respond to.
He also accuses the Speaker of not being adequately helpful because she was supposed to kick former Sports Minister Charles Bakkabulindi out of the Select Committee because he has personal vandetta against him as a person and COFTU as an organization.
Lyomoki says he felt betrayed when Among ignored his concerns and those of COFTU and allowed Bakkabulindi to remain on the Committee.
He says that Bakkabulindi‘s hatred for him grew even more last June when the NSSF Board declined his request to fund his trip to the ILO international conference.
That Bakkabulindi took it personal thinking that Lyomoki had personally influenced the Board decision on this same matter. He says consequently, Bakkabulindi was permitted platform to use this Select Committee to pay back, settle this and many other decades’ old scores.
The controversial Lyomoki also states that COFTU won’t be returning to the Select Committee because it’s merely a trap to humiliate both him and Peninah Tukamwesiga who deputizes him as Secretary General at COFTU.
He categorically denies ever bonking or being vertical involved at all with Peninah Tukamwesiga. It remains to be seen how Among and the Mpaka Mwine-led Committee members are going to respond to this latest defiance by Dr. Sam Lyomoki who also says he has always been mistreated on the NSSF Board because he perceives the rest of members to have ganged up to make life very hard for him. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [whatsapp line], 0779411734 & 0200900416 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).