Hon Irene Muloni

More ex-official ministers have taken oath today before chaired by the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah. These include the second deputy prime and minister of East African Affairs Ali Kirunda Kivejinja, the minister of Energy and mineral development Irene Margaret Muloni and the minister of state for Gender Peace Mutuuzo.

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The ministers include Ruhakana Rugunda, Monica Azuba Ntegge, Joy Kabatsi, Janat Mukwaya, Philemon Mateke, Janet Kataaha Museveni, Beti Kamya and Florence Nakiwala. Others are  Dr. Jane Acen, William Byaruhanga, Abdul Nadduli, and Alex Onzima. Six ex-officials missed the swearing in and these include Kahinda Otafire, David Tumukunde, Peace Mutuuzo who is the minister of state for Gender, Kirunda Kivejinja, Agness Okroro and Irene Muloni.
The deputy Speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah who was presiding over the House asked the ex-officials of parliament to perform their duties diligently in service of all Ugandans. Oulanyah also handed each of the ex-officials a copy of the constitution and rules of procedure of Parliament.

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Barnabas Tinkasiimire

Buyaga west MP Barnabas Tinkasiimire says that  Members of parliament should stop spending sleepless nights looking for how they enter into the pending cabinet since the old ministers will be many in the cabinet. Tinkasimire, speaking to journalists at parliament, said that the majority of NRM members are with high expectations of being ministers and they might end up collapsing once missing on cabinet list. He advises them to concentrate more on serving people who elected them to parliament than thinking about ministerial posts. Tinkasimire says that the President’s loyal old ministers will resurface in the new cabinet list.

Tinkasiimire also asked President Yoweri Museveni to take  action against  UNRA officials who diverted the authority’s  funds. The commission of inquiry into mismanagement of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) in a report released showed that  4 trillion shillings was lost in seven years through dubious deals, notably through collusion between its own staff and contractors; inflating cost of road projects; and delayed action on recommendations listed in the Auditor General’s reports. Tinkansimire says it’s upon Museveni to prove his talk on fighting corruption or leave the implicated to be scot free like others who are in government.

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The Member of Parliament for Gulu municipality Leander Komakech says that the president should have ministers who have the technical capacity to deliver services to the intended community. The woman member of parliament for Mitoma district Jovah Kamateka says that the new cabinet should be focusing on the NRM party manifesto.

MPS Bernard Atiku and Joshua Anyarach want cabinet of youth and one which will own government projects.

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Ken Lukyamuzi

As Majority of the longest serving ministers and members of parliament lost in the just concluded parliamentary elections, those who survived speak out on how they made it. One of the ministers who has been in parliament for more than two terms Ruth Nankabirwa says although  the election process was too tough,  including her being  challenged  for over stay, she explains that her success was  a result of  using her office to fullfil the pledge made by Government. Nankabirwa also says that she explained to the constituents that the president they support had served longer than her.

Those long serving ministers and MPs who lost include  Lubaga South MP John Ken Lukyamuzi, Minister of defense  Crispus Kiyonga, Geoffrey Ekanya  Tororo  county, Rujumbura County MP also Information minister Jim Muhwezi,  Ruhinda County MP also Justice  and constitutional affairs  minister, Kahinda Otafire, Rubanda west MP also Minister of State for Investment Henry Banyenzaki, former  vice president Gilbert Bukenya and Veteran politician and First Deputy Prime Minister Henry Muganwa Kajura who has been in cabinet since 1989.

Some longest serving Ministers and MPs who survived and will be serving their fourth term are Minister of disaster preparedness and Refugees Hirary Onek, Ruth Nankabirwa, Vice president Edward Sekandi, Elijah Okupa, Cecilia Ogwal and Speaker Kadaga; these two have been in parliament since the Constituency assembly.

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Najjemba who was speaking during the consultative meeting for the members of parliament on London family planning commitments said that what the people need on the grass root are constant messages that will not confuse them.

Urban Planning Minister, Rose Mary Najjemba

She said that leaders including the president must clearly give messages that create awareness for family planning other than expressing commitments which cannot be fulfilled.

Recently the president made commitments on the issue of family planning while in London and later he urged Ugandans to produce as much as they can when they are not yet in the middle class the statements Najjemba says are inconsistent.

She says that as parliament they will follow up on the commitments and sensitize the public about family planning.

The president while in London said that government will increase its allocation for family planning from USD 3.3million to USD 5 million and mobilize an additional USD 5million from donors.

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Mao says that the queen advised Museveni to surround himself with intelligent people. Museveni reportedly informed the Queen that he has surrounded himself with professors, doctors among other intelligent persons and scholars.

The queen reportedly called her prime minister and asked him to answer the following riddle.

”Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?” the prime minister answered that that child is ‘me.’

Museveni reportedly returned to Uganda and asked the following question to his cabinet ministers but none of them laboured to answer the question. Mao alleges that Museveni reportedly went ahead to ask the same question to all his friends in NRM. The DP President says that if Museveni had asked the same question to DP members, none would fail to rightly answer him. So Mao asked Museveni to sack all his ministers, quit politics and let DP takeover power, causing laughter among DP members.

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According to the motion moved by Kween county MP Chemaswet Kisosi, the MPs want the two to step down pending investigations into allegations to taking massive bribes from oil companies.

The motion was seconded by MP Vincent Kyamadidi and Theodore Sekikubo.

The Prime Minister and minister Onek have insisted on their innocence and refused to step aside ahead of the said investigations.

While Mps insisted that the Ministers respect the house’s resolutions and step aside, the attorney general Peter Nyombi has maintained that parliament has no powers to suspend the ministers

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