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Netters
This is where you know that a nation has reached
the bottom of the pit. What should we consider when appointing ministers, where
they are born or what they can deliver? I mean who cares whether these ministers
are all from the same village, can they deliver or not? Surely at this time
history should guide us and I will give you a chapter from it. Iddi Amin came to
power and he decided to kill all Langis and Acholis, in the process, he was
asked on Camera why he was against Acholis, Iddi Amin stood up and challenged
them to give proof that he was against them, he called out for Cosmas Obura who
was then from the North and a Police Commissioner, his next question was how can
I be against the Acholis and yet put one in the position of Police
Commissioner? But he killed thousands of them and yes Obura was in that position
but Ali Towili was the true Police Commissioner, Obura was a show. People let us
grow up.
Em
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| MPs Refuse To Approve Ministers |
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APPROVED: Bukenya (left) and his predecessor,
Kazibwe hug at the parliamentary buildings
yesterday |
By Joyce Namutebi
THE approval of the newly nominated
ministers has hit a snag. The parliamentary committee on appointments
yesterday agreed not to go ahead to vet the ministers.
The
committee said they would not proceed until they meet President Yoweri
Museveni to explain what they called the gross regional and tribal
imbalances in political appointments, a source said.
The nominees
James Nsaba Buturo, Hope Mwesigye, Adolf Mwesige, Tarsis Kabwegyere,
Namuyangu Byakatonda, Augustine Nshimye and Kirunda Kivejinja had
assembled in the V.I.P. Lounge waiting to be interviewed. Jeje Odongo was
approved in 2001.
Namuyangu told The New Vision after the closed
committee meeting that, �For us, there is no problem. We are here to stay.
The committee should take their time.�
Kivejinja said, �With or
without being approved, Uganda needs people who are devoted to work for it
and that is my role, not necessarily pegged to an office.�
He
added, �Let the committee do its work.�
A source said the Speaker,
Edward Ssekandi who is also chairperson of the committee, would meet the
President and that the committee would meet again next Tuesday.
The source said that when the committee was approving the National
planning Authority the legislators decided that they would not proceed
with any more appointments until the President meets with the committee to
discuss national political appointments.
�There are imbalances and
it affects our resource allocation,� the source said.
The source
said the committee had directed the Clerk to Parliament to produce a list
of political appointments so far done since the 7th Parliament.
Sources said the new appointments introduce more imbalances.
According to a copy of the research list which The New Vision saw,
the north has three cabinet ministers, central eight, and western nine.
Regarding ministers of state, northern has seven, central 10, eastern 12
and Western 16.
Regarding constitutional bodies, the eastern
region has 11 chairpersons, northern 12, western 16 and central 18.
Meanwhile, Busoga Parliamentary Group has said they are supportive
of Kirunda�s appointment.
�He is the only one we have in Busoga so
far. We wish him well,� James Mwandha (People With Disability, Eastern)
said yesterday.
He said the group had held a meeting arising from
the accusations that the MPs were decampaigning Kirunda�s confirmation.
The group asked the President to nominate more ministers from the region
following the death of the Minister of State for Information, Basoga
Nsadhu, and the resignation of ex-Vice President, Dr. Speciosa Kazibwe.
Yesterday, a report of the standing committee on commissions,
statutory authorities and state enterprises dated May 1997 was being
circulated at Parliament. The report had called for censure of Kivejinja
the then Minister of Transport, regarding the operations of Uganda
Railways Corporation.
�The minister failed to properly follow up
the decisions of the inter-ministerial committee chaired by the Prime
Minister in the disposal on non-performing assets to generate money for
salary arrears.
�This led to a very chaotic handling of the
exercise and possible corrupting of the political authorities themselves,�
the report. |
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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