Tayebwa appoints committee to handle Namuganza censure

The seven-member committee which has been given up to 15 days to carry out the study will officially start work on Monday 9 January.

Tayebwa named Mbarara City South MP Mwine Mpaka as the Chairperson of the select committee.

Other members of the committee are: Wilfred Niwagaba (FDC, Ndorwa East), Mpindi Bumali (Indep., PWD), Charles Bakkabulindi (NRM, Workers ) and Nancy Achora (NRM, Lamwo District), Wakiso District Woman Representative, Betty Naluyima and the Tororo North MP, Geoffrey Ekanya.

The move appears to be in defiance of the NRM party that called on Speaker Anita Amongi and Namuganzi to reconcile.

Over 200 legislators appended their signatures in support of the censure motion against Namuganza.

The ad hoc committee in their report recommended that Namuganza steps aside for falsifying a presidential directive that saw the Uganda Land Commission allocate the said land to a section of investors.

The MPs accuse the minister of undermining the operations of Parliament using social media and other channels after the Naguru –Nakawa Land Adhoc Committee report implicated her in illegal land allocation to an investor.

On December 23, 2022, Agago County North MP, Amos Okot tabled the motion for a resolution of parliament to pass a vote of censure against minister Namuganza.

Namuganza is reported to have said Parliament is powerless and unable to censure her in relation to her involvement in the Naguru-Nakawa land allocations.

The MPs launched the censure motion following Namuganza's refusal to apologise to Speaker Anita Among and MPs for her handling of the matter.

A censure does not necessarily mean the removal of a minister from Cabinet, but is a badge of infamy that is almost always followed with an implicated minister’s resignation.