It seems President Museveni would have developed high blood pressure if he was not a revolutionary. The hardworking president summoned all MPs on government side for a meeting to discuss the resignation of Ministers Syda Bbumba (Gender) and Khiddu Makubuya (General Duties).
The two ministers resigned last week after the Public Accounts Committee of the 9th parliament accused them of causing financial loss to the taxpayer and abuse of office for their role in approving reported inflated compensation claims to a Kampala Businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba. The money was in excess of 150 billion shillings. At the meeting we are told that the president requested MPs to ‘love their party, ministers and the country and to save ministers and the government whenever there is a need to do so.’
A source that attended the meeting told us that the MP for Lwemiyaga Theodre Sekikubo challenged the president never to think that the MPs will ever save corrupt ministers. He reportedly told him that those corrupt ministers will one day fall and go away but Uganda will remain. So Sekikubo told the president that He and his conscience will never put NRM interests before national and citizens interests.
The MPs also asked Museveni to advise Bank of Uganda Governor Tumusiime Mutebile to resign for his role in the deals Bbumba and Makubuya were accused of.
