Uganda, May 10 -- Infighting within the Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) in the Masaka sub-region has escalated amid the party's ongoing registration update and enrollment of new members.

On April 29, NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi launched the registration process, which is expected to take a month. The exercise is part of NUP's efforts to establish organised party structures from grassroots levels to the upper echelons of leadership.

However, tensions have risen, with members of one faction, led by parliamentary commissioner and Nyendo-Mukungwe legislator, Mr Mathias Mpuuga, accusing another camp led by Masaka City Mayor Florence Namayanja, of blocking them from participating in the ongoing exercise.

Tension flared last week...