{"id":24884,"date":"2021-07-06T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24884"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:31:11","slug":"new-twist-parliament-approves-alice-kaboyo-ministerial-appointment-weeks-after-rejecting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/new-twist-parliament-approves-alice-kaboyo-ministerial-appointment-weeks-after-rejecting-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW TWIST! Parliament Approves Alice Kaboyo Ministerial  Appointment Weeks After Rejecting It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliament&#8217;s Appointments Committee has approved the appointment of Alice Kaboyo as State Minister for Luweero-Rwenzori Triangle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alice had earlier been rejected over integrity issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Committee chaired by the Deputy Speaker Annet Anita Among on June 18, declined to approve the appointment of Kaboyo, a former State House aide who is among the 80 Ministers that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appointed to serve in the cabinet on 8th June.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaboyo\u2019s appointment was previously rejected by the committee basing on the June 2012 incident when the Anti-Corruption Court convicted her when she pleaded guilty to some of the counts in the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaboyo, who was then co-accused with three former Health Ministers Jim Muhwezi, his deputies Mike Mukula and Dr. Alex Kamugisha was sentenced to a fine of Shs20 million or an 8-year prison. She chose to pay the Shs20 million fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s Appointments Committee has approved the appointment of Alice Kaboyo as State Minister for Luweero-Rwenzori Triangle. Alice had earlier been rejected over integrity issues. The Committee chaired by the Deputy Speaker Annet Anita Among on June 18, declined to approve the appointment of Kaboyo, a former State House aide who is among the 80 Ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24886,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884\/revisions\/24886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}