Mwesigye's joke
AGRICULTURE minister Hope Mwesigye took the notion of power a bit too far last week when she called the press for the release of a NAADS report. She expected the journalists who arrived at 10:00am to wait the whole day! They expected the release at 10:30am but the good minister was instead meeting with the NAADS board. She demanded that the journalists wait for her to finish whatever she was doing. They walked away in protest at 1:00pm with some NAADS official telling them that those who could should hold on up to 3:00pm. Lo and behold, even by 4:00pm, the meeting was still going on!
Isn’t that taking the joke too far?

Mafabi’s title
The next time you meet Budadiri MP Nandala Mafabi, please don’t address him as “Honourable” or “Chairman”, public accounts committee. He has now changed and wants to be addressed as “Chairman, Bugisu Co-operative Union. He loves the title so much that that whenever journalists address him as “Honourable”, he quickly protests and demands that they address him by the new title.

Nduhuura upset
State minister for health Dr. Richard Nduhuura is not happy because of the habit of late-coming by Ugandans, especially in his ministry. He has tried to report early if only to make them emulate him, in vain. He complained during the commissioning of a sh2bn Joint Medical Stores recently. “I always try to report early to duty. Being a minister, I thought that everyone should report before me. But you find the car park empty. They think I am a strange man. Some even ask why I come early!” Nduhuura lamented. Sorry sir, we understand the frustration.

Malinga furious
Health minister Dr. Stephen Malinga is very unhappy with “small-minded” politicians who think they must gain political capital out of a tragedy. The minister did not mince his words when attacking the politicians who said his ministry did nothing in Bududa after the landslide. “To try to make political capital out of the pain of people at their most desperate is a gross weakness and they should be condemned,” Malinga said as he enumerated what his ministry did starting with the emergency intervention soon after the
tragedy.