President Yoweri Musevni has reshuffled his cabinet and dropped Ministers, Irene Muloni,of Energy, Abdul Nadduli of Without Portfolio among others.

New entrants include former police publicist, judth Nabakooba who replace Frank Tumwebaze as ICT Minister, Raphael Magyezi who championed the removal of age limit.

Museveni also named his former Principal Pritave Secretary Molly Kamukama as State Minister for Economic Monitor. Ms Kamukama was replaced by National Resistance Movement party deputy treasurer, Dr. Kenneth Omona.

 Below is the list

In Exercise of the Powers vested in the President by Articles 99(1), 108(2), 108A(1), 113(1) and 114(1) of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has, in pursuance of the goals of the NRM and Ugandans in general, made minor changes to the Cabinet.

He has appointed persons listed below as Vice President, Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State and Senior Presidential Advisors:

1. H.E. the Vice President ─ HON. KIWANUKA
EDWARD SSEKANDI;

2. Rt. Hon. Prime Minister ─ DR. RUHAKANA
RUGUNDA;

3. 1stDeputy Prime Minister ─ GEN. MOSES ALI;
& Deputy Leader of Gov’t
Business in Parliament

4. 2nd Deputy Prime Minister and ─ HON. KIRUNDA
Minister without Port-folio KIVEJINJA;

5. Minister of Education and ─ HON. MUSEVENI
Sports JANET KATAAHA;

6. Minister of the Presidency ─ HON. MBAYO ESTHER
MBULAKUBUZA;

7. Minister in Charge of ─ HON. BUSINGYE
General Duties/Office of MARY KAROORO
The Prime Minister OKURUT;

8. Minister of Disaster
Preparedness &
Refugees ─ HON. ONEK HILARY;

9. Government Chief Whip ─ HON. NANKABIRWA
SENTAMU RUTH;

10. Minister of East African Affairs ─ MAJ. GEN.KAHINDA
OTAFIIRE;

11. Minister of Security ─ HON.GEN. ELLY
TUMWINE;

12. Minister of Defence and ─ HON. MWESIGE
Veteran Affairs ADOLF;

13. Minister of Foreign ─ HON. KUTESA
Affairs KAHAMBA SAM;

14. Minister of Internal Affairs ─ GEN. JEJE ODONGO;

15. Minister of Trade, ─ HON. KYAMBADDE
Industry& Cooperatives AMELIA ANNE;

16. Minister of Finance and
Economic Planning ─ HON. KASAIJA MATIA;

17. Minister of Energy and
Minerals ─ HON. KITUTU MARY;

18. Minister of Tourism,
Wildlife & Antiquities ─ HON. BUTIME TOM;

19. Minister of Local ─ HON. RAFAEL MAGYEZI;
Government

20. Minister of Works and ─ GEN. KATUMBA
Transport WAMALA;

21. Minister of Lands,
Housing & Urban ─ HON. KAMYA BETTY;
Development

22. Minister for Kampala and ─ HON. AMONGI BETTY;
Metropolitan Affairs

23. Minister of Health ─ DR. ACENG JANE;
24. Minister of Public Service ─ HON. MURULI
MUKASA;

25. Minister of Justice ─ HON. KAMUNTU
& Constitutional Affairs EPHRAIM;

26. Attorney General ─ MR. BYARUHANGA
WILLIAM (ADVOCATE);

27. Minister of Water & ─ HON. CHEPTORIS
Environment SAM;

28. Minister for Karamoja Affairs ─ HON. BYABAGAMBI
JOHN;

29. Minister for Science, ─ DR. TUMWESIGYE
Technology and Innovation ELIODA;

30. Minister of Gender, Labour ─ HON. TUMWEBAZE
& Social Affairs FRANK;

31. Minister of Information, ICT ─ HON. NABAKOOBA
&Communications JUDITH;

32. Minister of Agriculture, ─ HON. SSEMPIJJA
Animal Industry & VINCENT
Fisheries BAMULANGAKI.
MINISTERS OF STATE:

Office of the President:

1. Minister of State for ─ HON. LOKODO
Ethics and Integrity SIMON;

2. Minister of State for ─ MRS. KAMUKAMA NAWE
Economic Monitoring MOLLY;

Office of the Vice President:

3. Minister of State ─ HON. KASIRIVU
Vice President’s Office BALTAZAH ATWOKI;

Office of the Prime Minister:

4. Minister of State for
Relief and Disaster ─ HON. ECWERU
Preparedness MUSA FRANCIS;

5. Minister of State for ─ HON. KIZIGE MOSES;
Karamoja

6. Minister of State for
Bunyoro Affairs ─ HON. KIIZA ERNEST;

7. Minister of State ─ HON. GALABUZI
for Luwero Triangle-Rwenzori DENNIS SSOZI;

8. Minister of State for ─ HON. KWIYUUCWINY
Northern Uganda GRACE;

9. Minister of State for ─ HON. AKIROR AGNES;
Teso Affairs

Ministry of Educationand Sports

10. Minister of State for Higher ─ DR. MUYINGO JOHN
Education CHRYSOSTOM;

11. Minister of State for ─ HON. NANSUBUGA
Primary Education, ROSEMARY SENINDE;

12. Minister of State for Sports ─ HON. OBUA DENIS
HAMSON;

Ministry of East African Affairs

13. Minister of State for ─ HON. MAGANDA
East African Affairs JULIUS WANDERA;

Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs

14. Minister of State for
Defence ─ COL. ENGOLA OKELLO;

15. Minister of State for ─ HON. KIBAZANGA
Veteran Affairs CHRISTOPHER;

Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

16. Minister of State for ─ HON. ORYEM
International Affairs OKELLO;

17. Minister of State for ─ DR. MATEKE
Regional Affairs PHELEMON;

Ministry of Internal Affairs

18. Minister of State for
Internal Affairs ─ HON. OBIGA KANIA;

Ministry of Trade and Industry and Cooperatives:

19. Minister of State for ─ HON. KAFABUSA
Trade WERIKHE MICHEAL;

20. Minister of State for ─ HON. GUME
Cooperatives FREDRICK NGOBI;

Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development:

21. Minister of State for Finance ─ HON. AJEDRA
(General) GABRIEL GADISON;
ARIDRU;

22. Minister of State for Planning ─ HON. BAHATI DAVID;

23. Minister of State for ─ HON. ANITE EVELYN;
Privatization and Investment

24. Minister of State for Micro- ─ HON. KYEYUNE
Finance HARUNA KASOLO;

Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development:

25. Minister of State for Minerals ─ HON. ACHIENG SARAH
OPENDI;

26. Minister of State for Energy ─ HON. D’UJANGA
SIMON;

Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities:

27. Minister of State for ─ HON. KIWANDA
Tourism GODFREY;

Ministry of Local Government

28. Minister of State for ─ HON. NAMUYANGU
Local Government JENNIFFER;

Ministry of Works and Transport:

29. Minister of State for ─ HON. LOKERIS
Works AIMAT PETER;

30. Minister of State for ─ MRS. KABATSI JOY;
Transport

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development:

31. Minister of State for ─ HON. MUSUMBA
Urban Development ISAAC;

32. Minister of State for ─ HON. NAMUGANZA
Lands PERSIS;

33. Minister of State for ─ DR. BARYOMUNSI
Housing CHRIS;

Ministry of Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs:

34. Kampala Capital City ─ HON. NAMUGWANYA
Authority BENNA;

Ministry of Health:

35. Minister of State for ─ HON. NABBANJA
Health (General) ROBINAH;

36. Minister of State for ─ DR. MORIKU JOYCE
Primary Health Care KADUCU;

Ministry of Public Service:

37. Minister of State for ─ HON. KARUBANGA
Public Service DAVID;

Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs:

38. Deputy Attorney General ─ MR. KAFUUZI
JACKSON;

Ministry of Water and Environment:

39. Minister of State for Water ─ HON. KIBUULE
RONALD;

40. Minister of State for ─ HON. ANYWAR
Environment BEATRICE ATIM;

Ministry of ICT

41. Minister of State for ICT and ─ HON. OGWANG PETER;
Communications

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development:

42. Minister of State for Youth and ─ MRS. NAKIWALA
Children Affairs FLORENCE KIYINGI;

43. Minister of State for Gender ─ MS. MUTUUZO
and Culture PEACE;

44. Minister of State for Labour,
Employment and Industrial ─ HON. MWESIGWA
Relations RUKUTANA;

45. Minister of State for the Elderly ⎼
and Disability

Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries

46. Minister of State for ─ HON. BAGIIRE
Agriculture AGGREY;

47. Minister of State for Animal ─ HON. RWAMIRAMA
and Veterinary Affairs BRIGHT;

48. Minister of State for Fisheries ─ MS. ADOA HELLEN.

SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS:

1. HON. MUKWAYA JANAT

2. HAJJI NADDULI ABDUL

3. HON. MULONI IRENE

4. HON. NTEGE AZUBA

5. HON. ONZIMA ALEX

PRINCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY:

DR. OMONA KENNETH

SIGNED this …………………..day of ………, in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

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Following a verbal attack by Security Minister, Gen. Elly Tumwine on his junior Lt. Gen. Charles Angina in public, over the latter’s involvement in a land wrangle between businessman Godfrey Kirumira and his neighbour, a historic UPDF General has come out to blame Gen. Tumwine saying that he acts before he thinks and that he was under the influence Kirumira, a civilian.

“He, Tumwine should have listened to Angina. Anyway, he was under the influence of Kirumira and you know very well that Tumwine acts before he thinks. How could he say ‘our army’ when the officer you are demeaning is a former deputy CDF?” The General said.

The General, who also happens to be a minister in President’s Museveni’s Cabinet, when asked about Gen. Tumwine’s mistreatment of the former deputy Chief of Defence Forces Angina, said that Gen. Tumwine should have raised the issue of Angina with the UPDF High Command, but not shouting at a commissioned officer in public like he did, adding that such behaviour exhibited by Gen. Tumwine is unpleasant to the UPDF.

“From the approach, it should not have been there because both Lt. Gen. Charles Angina and Gen. Elly Tumwine are senior officers but the way Tumwine conducted it, it was uncalled for,” the concerned General said. “If he had summoned Gen. Angina aside and Angina refused that could have explained the reprimand but it is an unfortunate incident,” he added.

Asked how the UPDF High Command and the Commander in Chief who is President Yoweri Museveni would handle the case, the General said, “I would love to see how the Commander In Chief will handle. How can you just shout at a former Deputy Chief of Defence Forces as if you shouting at a child but even a child deserves respect?”

Currently Angina is the deputy Coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), a poverty eradication campaign which is headed by Museveni’s brother Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh and he is one of the UPDF senior officers that are slated to steer the force as its historical retire.

Gen. Tumwine’s attack on Angina has not been received well in his homeland of Teso. an NRM stronghold and was instrumental in the fight against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Armey (LRA) as the region’s politicians like flight Capt. Mike Mukula and Musa Ecweru formed the famous Arrow Boys who alongside, the UPDF chased Joseph Kony and his men from the region.

Capt. Mukula, a prominent politician from the region and a diehard of the NRM who doubles as Eastern Region chairman for the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party when asked about the incident, said Tumwine was wrong to attack Gen. Angina in the way he did. “It was not properly done. The UPDF is now a mature army. It has systems. Nobody can abuse an army anymore. And therefore, someone saying that they are using the army is not true.”

He went on to say: “UPDF is a disciplined army. It has a standing framework and if someone is found to be undisciplined why not summon him? The decorum of a person of Angina who rose to a level of a General has attained a status. Call that person in private or summon him in UPDF structures.”

Mukula said senior officers of UPDF with the characters akin to Tumwine’s should learn from Museveni who he said is the founder of UPDF. “They should learn from the founder of UPDF who is none other than Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. He has never reprimanded an officer in public. He has worked with opponents; from Aggrey Awori, Moses Ali and Ali Bamwoze. However, it is an individual mistake and he, Tumwine, should carry his cross but he should not attribute it to UPDF.”

An opposition politician Eagle Online talked to about Tumwine’s attack on Angina said: “General Tumwine thinks he is the powerful UPDF officer. He should know that man rises and man falls. His time to fall is not far from now. Ask those who behaved that way in the past regimes. Where are they?”

Gen. Tumwine prides himself for being the NRA soldier who first fired a bullet when they attacked Kabamba Barracks in Mubende in hunt for guns. It is said Gen. Museveni wanted to reprimand him as it was supposed to be an undercover mission.

Gen. Tumwine has been accused in the past for drawing a pistol towards Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah while the latter was still in opposition political UPC. He is alleged to have done the same to Dokolo Woman Member of Parliament Cecilia Ogwal.

His fellow minister Sarah Opendi recently referred to Gen. Tumwine as a “bully” as she appeared before the disciplinary committee of parliament to give evidence against Tumwine over his behaviour.

Tumwine has always reminded Ugandans that he and other senior officers went to bush to fight so-called bad governments and tat therefore, they deserve recognition and respect.

The General is said to be holding on Nomm Gallery, a government owned property, despite calls to vacate it. It is said government demands him over Shs30 billion for occupying that facility for years.

The Nommo Gallery was founded and established in 1964 by the 1959 Act of Parliament, and is Uganda’s National Art Gallery and a component of the Uganda National Cultural Centre (UNCC). The Nommo Gallery is supposed to feature exhibitions of works of art by both Ugandan and foreign artists.

Eagle Online could not reach UPDF Spokesperson Brig. Richard Karemire for a comment as his known cellphone numbers were switched off.

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President Yoweri Museveni and First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni yesterday held the national thanksgiving service at State House Entebbe. The service was attended by politicians, ministers, diplomats, senior government officials and religious leaders and senior security officers among other guests invited.

Below is Museveni’s written statement posted on his Facebook Page on Saturday after hosting the event yesterday. He says Ugandans are intoxicated with religion though, he added there are those intoxicated with alcohol. Read full statement for more issues he addressed:

Yesterday we held the National Thanksgiving Service at State House Entebbe. Mama Janet Kataaha Museveni and I are honored to have graced this important event.

I thank the inter-religious council, religious leaders from the different denominations and everyone who was present both physically and spiritually as we continued to dedicate this country and thank God for the far he has brought us as a nation.

It is good to thank for the Bible says (In Luke 17:15-18): “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. So Jesus answered and said: “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give Glory to God?.

We are that 10th lepper who returned to give thanks. This event gathered all the different religious groups, when I saw all of them here, I got the exact feeling that God is with us here, God loves this country.

I see that Ugandans are intoxicated with religion. Of course, there are those intoxicated with alcohol but there are also those intoxicated with religion, you see them shouting and jumping, very drunk on the Holy Spirit. In the Acts of the Apostles, when the Holy Spirit came, those people were acting the same. There is no harm in being intoxicated with the Holy Spirit because it is not comparable to anything in this world.

However, intoxication in religion should not end at intercession, prayer, and fasting, but should translate into development, just as God wants.

The big problem in Africa has been a spiritual problem. Africa is a rich continent that has lagged behind in development. Development is a biblical commandment if you are Christians. Other religions also teach about that.

In the book of Genesis, it is clear that man was created in God’s image hence we are not like other creatures, also in the same book, we are supposed to multiply and fill the earth (Ugandans do this very well and we have not so much argument here), but we must also establish dominion over nature, we must develop.

What Africa does is multiplying and filling the earth, the other of establishing dominion, we have not done. Africa has been asleep, that is why you find Europeans with just one season, producing much more than us who have two seasons.

Now, this is sleeping, Basoga call it Kulambaala, actually, there is also a village there (In Busoga, Iganga) called Lambaala.

I am glad that the National Resistance Movement has ensured to provide a favorable condition to support development. First we chose peace, by building a disciplined army. We were against the idea that a soldier should be mad and feared for it.

A soldier should be disciplined than ordinary people because the latter are not disciplined. In other parts of Africa, you find the UN guarding the people, then we said what sort of people are you that can not guard yourselves? We said we shall not let that happen, the UN will not guard Uganda. We established a resistance against the idea of a crazy army and a defense system that relies on foreign capacity.

On under development, we said let everyone go to school first, yes people are talking about many youths who are not employed but they are educated. Why are they educated? Because they have been educated. Now we have a new problem with educated children but some of them are learning things that are not relevant. But they are educated, which solves our initial problem, because prior, our children were neither educated nor employed. This is half the struggle.

We also had the question of not producing, even those with land were not producing, everything was being imported. But now we are awakening people and you can hear farmers crying of too much maize, milk, and reduction of prices on different items. This is good, it is a bit of waking up. This waking up however means we should look for market in East Africa, Africa and beyond just in case everybody wakes up.

I congratulate those families that have woken up already to engage in Agriculture, industry, service, and ICT, I encourage them.

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