President Museveni has this morning met with his Cabinet in Kampala and discussed with the ministers the precarious environment his government is in following the resignation of six ministers over corruption allegations.
The meeting took place in the Cabinet Library at the President’s Office on Parliamentary building, in Kampala central division.
Some of the ministers who have resigned over corruption related charges include Suda Bbumba (Gender), Khiddu Makubuya (general duties) and Kabakumba Matsiko (minister forKampala).
One of the ministers in the meeting told us that the cabinet meeting discussed among others the implication of the resignation of ministers, report tabled last week by Parliament’s watchdog committee on public accounts into the questionable approval of compensation to businessmen Hassan Bassajabalaba and retired Col. John Mugyenyi and the negative publicity opposition parties have solved to international community since April last year. Another source in the meeting told us that the ministers requested the president to fill the vacant ministerial posts.