Parliament of Uganda

📹 Amb. Adonia Ayebare says his first priority as the Minister of Foreign Affairs is to ensure that the government's approach towards foreign policy is well coordinated in all sectors.

Asked if he has dual citizenship, as alleged on social media, the former Permanent Representative to the UN denied the allegations.

📹 "We shall empower cooperative societies to fight household poverty" - Hon. Tom Aza, State Minister for Cooperatives.

📹 State Minister for Planning, Hon. Amos Lugoloobi says programme-based budgeting has helped link budgeting to planning.
He made the comments after his vetting.

📹 "The [Appointments] Committee has challenged me to develop the country's natural resources," State Minister for Minerals, Hon. Phiona Nyamutoro.

📹 Ministers-designate arrive at Parliament for vetting.

More than 40 nominees were vetted on Monday, and another bunch appears before the Committee on Appointments this Tuesday.

At the end of the exercise, the Speaker shall communicate to the President in writing, within three working days on the decision of the committee.

The Minister for Works and Transport, Hon. Fred Byamukama says his ministry's top priority in the new term is the completion of the Standard Gauge Railway from Kampala via Malaba to Kenya and the rehabilitation of the Meter Gauge Railway.
He also plans to ensure the completion of Mubende-Mityana Road, Mutukula Road and the Kampala-Jinja Expressway, among other pending projects.