Kira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has confirmed that parliament leadership has not yet delivered the money that Members of Parliament contributed to help the family of fallen legislator Muhammad Ssegirinya of Kawempe North who died early this year.
Parliament resolved that each legislator contributes Shs300,000 towards Ssegirinya burial arrangements to help his family.
Ssemujju confirmed that each legislator has contributed his money and they are only waiting for the family to sort themselves out and agree on who is supposed to receive all the money.
Sources said that Ssegirinya’s widows led by Hajirah Akandinda are protesting the move by their mother in law Justine Nakajumba who wants to receive the said money on their behalf.
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They allege that if she gets the money, she will not give them their portion even though they are the ones taking care of Ssegirinya’s children given that the deceased’s family including Nakajumba refused to take care of them claiming that they don’t have money.
The widows further accuses their mother in law of running away with all the condolence money given to the family during Ssegirinya’s funeral from the money they received from parliament, at Ssegirinya’s home in Kasangati and at the National Unity Platform (NUP) head offices at Makerere Kavule.
Akandinda claims that for all the time he spent with Ssegirinya, he never told him that Nakajumba was among the people who helped him to reach where he was and her mother only exploited his condition when he fell sick.
However, the mother blasted the widows accusing them of wanting to harvest where they don’t sow.
She insists that many of those claiming to be Ssegirinya’s widows are gold diggers that is why she is going to subject all Ssegirinya’s alleged children to a DNA test.
When some of the widows heard this, they turned bitter and blasted their mother in law for trying to trick them to so that she can sideline their children from benefiting from the estate of their father.
Nakajumba is also being accused of deploying bouncers at the home of Ssegirinya to deny Akadinda access to the house and she has started the process of securing the powers to administer his son’s estate.
However, this website has also established that Muhammad Luswa Luwemba the Personal Assistant to the fallen legislator is also accused of grabbing a piece of the estate of the deceased including some of the motor vehicles like the ambulance.
When contacted, Nakajumbi admitted that there are ongoing fights within the late Ssegirinya’s family.
She however declined to elaborate explaining that these are family issues which will be solved internally.
