Lwanga out of order � Nsibambi
By Alex B. Atuhaire
Sept 27, 2004 - Monitor
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KAMPALA � The Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, has said dissenting minister, Mr Tim Lwanga, cannot run away from the Cabinet recommendation, which seeks to empower Parliament to unseat kings. Nsibambi told The Monitor at the weekend that Lwanga would be violating the Constitution if he disowned the Cabinet recommendation. �No minister can say that I am out of this. It is irregular. It is a violation of Article 117 under which we have collective responsibility,� he said. Seven state ministers The Monitor talked to last week said the proposal as contained in a presentation by Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Janat Mukwaya, was not in the original Cabinet submissions. Lwanga, the Ethics and Integrity Minister, publicly disowned the White Paper proposal on the cultural leaders. He said he did not remember discussing the proposal in Cabinet sessions and was shocked by the way it came in. The government position on kings has met strong opposition from some MPs, cultural institutions and opposition politicians. A section of Baganda construe the move as a veiled attack on the Kabaka. But Mukwaya has advised fellow ministers, who are not happy with the proposal, to resign. She denied it was smuggled into the final document. Nsibambi said the recommendation was not been made in bad faith because the Cabinet wants to protect the cultural institutions from some politicians who want to misuse them. |
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