The Inspector General of Government (IGG) has said that labour state minister Herbert Kabafunzaki is still a member of cabinet unless the appointing authority, President Yoweri Museveni, thinks otherwise.
Justice Mulyagonja, who was responding to a query as to whether her office can order the minister Kabafunzaki to step aside pending the resolution of a bribery case against him said the minister was a political leader and ‘not a public servant’.
“They (political appointees and public servants) are not bound by the same regulations,” she said in an interview earlier today, adding that the condition for one to step aside to pave the way for investigations only applies to civil servants.
Minister Kabafunzaki was earlier today granted a cash and non-cash bail of Shs50 million, respectively, by the anti-corruption court chief magistrate Agnes Alum.
This followed Kabafunzaki’s arrest on Saturday for allegedly soliciting a Shs30 million bribe from AYA Group Chairman Muhammad Hamid.
