MPs Reject Nabisunsa Headmistress For EC
Nov 11, 2002
IT is not always a bed of roses for the wife of a big personality.
By Joyce Namutebi
IT is not always a bed of roses for the wife of a big personality.
Nabisunsa headmistress Hajati Aisha Lubega may miss a new assignment as an electoral commissioner because her husband chairs the Education Service Commission.
Members of the committee on appointments yesterday said the MPs had nothing against her as a person but that it was improper to have two people from the same family on statutory commissions.
“It’s not proper. It doesn’t show transparency,†said an MP who preferred anonymity. “It sends a wrong signal because this is a public office,†said another.
Lubega, who was nominated by President Yoweri Museveni, was appearing for vetting by the committee. Museveni has the final word. The Speaker, Edward Sekandi, chairs the committee.
The sources said Lubega’s brother was a resident district commissioner. “The Movement is broad-based. It’s supposed to spread out,†another MP said.
Sources said according to MPs, this kind of thing was raised and rejected by the committee that probed election violence recently.
Sources said Elly Tumwine (army representative) unsuccessfully urged the committee to consider Lubega on her own merit.
Commenting on how she felt leaving her job for a new assignment, Lubega told journalists soon after the interview that she had served as deputy headmistress and headmistress for 16 years. “I have 18 years to retire. Someone has to move out,†she said.
The committee approved Makerere University academic Dr. Badru Kiggundu as EC chairman, Sr. Margaret Magoba as his deputy, Steven Ongaria, Dr. Jenny B. Okello, Tom Buruku and Joseph Biribwona as commissioners.
Kiggundu was escorted by the deputy sergeant at-arms at 11:05am to the committee. “Hot,†he said at 11:45pm when journalists asked him how the interview went. “I was asked very many questions,†he said.
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IT is not always a bed of roses for the wife of a big personality.
Nabisunsa headmistress Hajati Aisha Lubega may miss a new assignment as an electoral commissioner because her husband chairs the Education Service Commission.
Members of the committee on appointments yesterday said the MPs had nothing against her as a person but that it was improper to have two people from the same family on statutory commissions.
“It’s not proper. It doesn’t show transparency,†said an MP who preferred anonymity. “It sends a wrong signal because this is a public office,†said another.
Lubega, who was nominated by President Yoweri Museveni, was appearing for vetting by the committee. Museveni has the final word. The Speaker, Edward Sekandi, chairs the committee.
The sources said Lubega’s brother was a resident district commissioner. “The Movement is broad-based. It’s supposed to spread out,†another MP said.
Sources said according to MPs, this kind of thing was raised and rejected by the committee that probed election violence recently.
Sources said Elly Tumwine (army representative) unsuccessfully urged the committee to consider Lubega on her own merit.
Commenting on how she felt leaving her job for a new assignment, Lubega told journalists soon after the interview that she had served as deputy headmistress and headmistress for 16 years. “I have 18 years to retire. Someone has to move out,†she said.
The committee approved Makerere University academic Dr. Badru Kiggundu as EC chairman, Sr. Margaret Magoba as his deputy, Steven Ongaria, Dr. Jenny B. Okello, Tom Buruku and Joseph Biribwona as commissioners.
Kiggundu was escorted by the deputy sergeant at-arms at 11:05am to the committee. “Hot,†he said at 11:45pm when journalists asked him how the interview went. “I was asked very many questions,†he said.
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