President Yoweri Museveni has described his appointment of Hon. Norbert Mao, the President General of the Democratic Party as the Minister designate for Justice and Constitutional Affairs ass part of the NRM government’s efforts to keep Uganda stable and strong.
The President was speaking shortly after presiding over the swearing-in ceremony of the new Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Nobert Mao and the Minister of State for Economic Monitoring in the Office of the President.
The ceremony was officiated by the Head of Public Service and Secretary to Cabinet Ms Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye.
The President gave an in-depth background of Uganda’s political history and said the country has had four attempts by patriots trying to unite the people of Uganda including Ignatious K. Musaazi and the Uganda National Congress Party which later cracked up to create the Democratic Party for Catholics and the UPC for Protestants. Later the Kabaka yekka party came up.
President Museveni urged the new ministers to help solve people’s problems in their service to the country. He cited the new Minister of State for Sports Peter Ogwang who has been doing a great job of monitoring government programmes and urged the new ministers to be accountable to the people.
The new Ministers will be inducted into the Public Service on Thursday, July 28 and will later take over their respective offices.