President Museveni reappoints Prof. Bukenya
By Our reporter
ENTEBBE – The Presidential Press Unit (PPU) wishes to inform the general public that H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda, Gen. (Rtd). Yoweri
Kaguta Museveni has appointed, H.E. Prof. Gilbert Bukenya as the Senior Presidential Advisor on Environment and Sanitation.
Prof. Bukenya is the former Vice President of the Republic of Uganda.
75-year-old Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya, a Ugandan politician and physician served as the seventh vice president of Uganda from 23 May 2003 until 23 May 2011.
He also represented the constituency of Busiro County North in the Ugandan Parliament since 1996.
He became Vice President in 2003 replacing Specioza Kazibwe.
He would later stand for the post of Secretary General of the NRM and lost to Amama Mbabazi. In May 2011, he was replaced as Vice President of Uganda with Edward Ssekandi.
What you need to know:
Mahogany felled. In an interview with Daily Monitor in 2005, Prof Gilbert Bukenya alluded to a corrupt mafia group in government. Prof Bukenya had been traversing the country to popularise the cultivation of Upland rice.
However, he was also accused of having used the tours to hold secret meetings with soldiers and Catholic leaders, an insinuation that he wanted to become president. The interview helped save him, but it marked the beginning of his end.
However, he was also accused of having used the tours to hold secret meetings with soldiers and Catholic leaders, an insinuation that that he wanted to become president. That is apparently anathema and earns one the sack.
The interview helped save him, at least for a while, but it marked the beginning of a series of moves aimed at humiliating him again and again.
Prof Bukenya imitated Mr Museveni so much that he too would don wide-brimmed hats.
Losing to the Mafias
In the interview, he claimed that the mafia was feeding President Museveni, who he had earlier described as the only man with a vision, with wrong information.
Though he did not name who the three ‘Mafiosi’ were, it was understood that he was talking about Mr Sam Kutesa, Ms Hope Mwesigye and Mr Amama Mbabazi, who he had indirectly accused of arrogance in his dealings with members of the NRM Caucus before the leadership of the caucus was handed to the backbenchers.