The newly appointed and approved Cabinet is set to be sworn in on today at Entebbe State House. According to sources some appointed ministers a letter was sent to all appointed ministers, to travel to Entebbe for the occasion that is going to be presided over by the appointing authority- President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The new cabinet has […]
Private teachers have warned government on the big cabinet numbers saying it might affect performance of particularly the education sector. Cabinet has about 80 ministers and others yet to be nominated by president as per the caucus resolution to make the number 88 but according to private teachers this poses a huge threat on public spending […]
The parliamentary appointments committee finished the exercise of vetting ministers and 74 approved out of 79 ministers sent to the committee by the appointing authority. The committee chaired by the speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga rejected three ministers which include the designated minister of state for Industry Harriet Ntabazi and the minister of state for works […]
Persons with Disability under their umbrella organization the National union of Disabled persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) have joined the Karimajong in expressing anger over the new cabinet appointment saying that it excluded disability persons from sharing the national ‘’cake “. This as the president recently appointed Adrian Tibaleka as the Minister of State for the Elderly […]
Parliament has approved the expansion of the cabinet from 21 to 31 for cabinet ministers and from 31 to 49 for ministers of State. This brings the entire number to 80 ministers, the largest number in Uganda’s political history. The motion to increase the cabinet was tabled by Kiboga woman MP Ruth Nankabirwa and seconded by […]
A total of 280 members voted in favor of the reappointed VP, while 4 voted against and 9 abstained from the poll. In a short speech after being approved, Ssekandi thanked members for putting their trust in him and also the President for seeing more potential in him. Those who voted against include Mwijukye Francis Buhweju county, Sewanyana Allan Makidye […]
Karimajong members of parliament are disheartened by the newly appointed ministers for Karamoja region, asking the president to explain whether he is punishing them for their huge support to the NRM party. This as the president on Monday this week appointed Eng. John Byagambi minister for Karamoja Affairs and his deputy Moses Kizige . Addressing journalists […]
The long anticipated cabinet list that has been the talk of the 10th parliament in the corridors of power has been released. President Yoweri Museveni in this post election reshuffle named the new cabinet that retained the prime minister and other major ministers like the finance and energy ministers. In a fresh twist he appointed […]
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 […]
As Ugandans await the president to release a new cabinet, Members of parliament have expressed mixed reaction on the cabinet they desire to be named by the president as he runs a new term of office. The member of parliament for Igara west in Bushenyi district Rapheal Magyezi says that the people advocating for a small […]