The general public will be allowed to participate in scrutinizing the President’s appointed ministers before they are approved.

While taking to the journalists at his office at Parliament, the Leader of Opposition, Nandala Mafabi said that the resolution of open vetting was anonymously reached by the committee where he is a member.

Mafabi says that ministers were approved in the just concluded vetting exercise because the appointments committee just relied on their Curriculum Vitae.

He says that had some people been allowed to participate in the vetting exercise some ministers would have been disqualified citing Hon. Sarah Opendi as a survivor of the committee’s ignorance about her background. Mafabi adds that the problem YMCA College has with Opendi (State Minister for Lands) was received late when the committee had already approved her.

In the just concluded vetting exercise, the appointments committee blocked four appointees including; Saleh Kamba, Mbabaali Muyanja, James Kakooza and Nasser Ntege Sebagala.

By Issa Asuman