The parliamentary appointments committee on May 31 disqualified the appointment of the Hoima Municipality MP, Henry Muganwa Kajura as a cabinet minister for Public Service due his advanced age. Kajura will make 77 years in July 7 2011

Henry Kajura Muganwa

Kajura who had been appointed by President Museveni on Friday as the second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Service was told to retain the second Deputy Prime Minister office and relinquish the Public Service Ministry. He has been in the same offices before the reappointment.

The appointments committee told Kajura that the Service ministry is sensitive and it needs to be occupied by a fresh-minded person.

The issue of age was raised by the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Nathan Nandala Mafabi and it was anonymously seconded by the committee.

The committee told the Parliament Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga who chaired the committee to inform the President to appoint another person for the ministry of Public Service.

Sources from the committee say that in a few minutes they talked to Kajura, he was already dozing. The sources added that the committee observed that Kajura is no longer making coherent statements and the fact that he has served in the same sensitive position for ten years he deserved replacement.

See Henry Muganwa Kajura profile on Wikipedia

By Issa Asuman