The State House has come out to address the news making rounds alleging the President has reshuffled the RDCs all over the country, just days after a mini cabinet reshuffle and change in army leadership.
Labelling the reports as fake on Saturday evening, the Deputy Press Secretary in the Office of the President, Mr Kirunda Faruk dismissed the claims that the President has reshuffled the RDCs adding that such is fake news and it should be treated with the contempt it deserves.
“The general public is advised to ignore the fake news circulating of a purported reshuffle of RDCs/RCCs and their Deputies. Any reshuffle by His Excellency the President is communicated through official channels,” Kirunda posted on his official X account.
“Please, disregard the fake list intended to excite and cause panic in public,” he emphasized.
The news of the RDCs reshuffle comes just days after a section of former RDCs recently tasked the appointing authority to find them what to do or else re-deploy them as Resident District Commissioners.
Led by former JINJA RDC Erik Sakwa, the group says some of them have run broke and resorted to accusing the appointing authority of using and dumping them.
“I haven’t worked for three years and I need compensation. I was reappointed to Kaliro district and all news outlets painted me as dishonest and when I went to the office for my appointment letter, it was sat on,” said Sakwa while appearing on local TV station on March 12, adding that it would make sense if they received compensation.
In other news, On Thursday evening, President Museveni reshuffled his cabinet retaining most of his old cabinet but also making some strange appointments. The cabinet includes 30 full cabinet ministers and 51 state ministers.
The highlight of the reshuffle was the dropping of the embattled Karamoja Affairs minister Mary Goretti Kitutu who is facing corruption and theft charges regarding missing iron sheets meant for the Karamoja region.
Kitutu has been replaced by Peter Lokeris.Museveni also dropped Vicent Ssempijja, who previously served as the minister of Defense and Constitutional Affairs and replaced him with Jacob Oboth.
In the same vein, he appointed events promoter Balaam Barugahara as the minister for Youth and Children’s Affairs. Balaam as he’s popularly known, replaces Sarah Mateke, who has since been named the minister of state for Defense and Veteran Affairs.
Dr Kenneth Omona formerly, the private press secretary to the President has been appointed state minister in charge of Northern Uganda, while Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi was been appointed the new minister of state for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (Trade).
