Mess inside State House as Kadaga’s Letter to Museveni isn’t delivered

“It was on Thursday morning that the President called me and he was looking for the letter, he had not seen it.  I told him to ask his people to print it, since it is all over the internet,” deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah informed the house.

These words by the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah dropped suddenly to the listening legislators after he announced that the president had finally responded to a letter that was written to him by the speaker Rebecca Kadaga

After this statement, many questions loom over State House and the President’s handlers.

In the same week, an image of this letter emerged with a State House stamp. If State House received this letter from Parliament, how come it did not reach the President?

Tamale Mirundi, a former press secretary to the President for 16 years, weighed in on the matter.

“The orientation to know, because if you are politically active, you would know that the letter from the Speaker must be attended to immediately. The Speaker is one of the pillars of the state. Does the principal private secretary to Museveni understand this? Or she thinks it was just any other letter?” Mirundi wondered.

Oulanyah put it clearly that the letter had made it to all internet spaces apart from Museveni’s desk.

This confusion inside state house has occurred before. During the RDC reshuffle, the list of new RDC’s was released and signed by the President, later recalled for having appointed people who were reported as dead.

And as we continue to ask what the problem could be, this is Mirundi’s submission. “A person who would do better as a good Principle Private Secretary must be a former MP or a political scientist. These two people have a better sense of judging politically,” Mirundi advised.

As to whether this position is true for all cannot however leave the country lamenting and so we ask for a way forward

“There should be orientation. In State House. Be told the do’s and don’ts, be told these things by a person who has been there before. But state house people are picked from anywhere and dumped there,” Mirundi said.

He added that State House staff see state house as a money making house, and that whoever is employed there, takes the advantage of selling time of their boss instead of concentrating on their real jobs. “Amelia Kyambadde was the best person at this, she had a great sense of judgement and she would carry files of reference everywhere she went.” Mirundi supplemented.