Beatrice Anywar (pictured), the Minister of State of Environment has lashed out at a section of Opposition members who have criticized her appointment as Minister, saying there’s no permanent enemy in politics.
“There is no permanent enemy in politics. At that time as my President (Kiiza Besigye), we got along and along the way we disagreed. If one can divorce and throw away the ring, what about a party? To ask if I regret leaving the opposition, I don’t regret anything. Everything has its time. To say I betrayed, betrayed who and for what? I have never been bond with any party and there is no ring to that effect,” Anywar said.
She was responding to journalists’ questions Friday at Parliament following her vetting by the Parliamentary Appointments Committee.
Journalists put it to her that her appointment symbolizes betrayal to the opposition, having been a strong member of the Forum for Democratic Change.
Anywar said that her appointment to the Environmental ministerial docket is in recognition for her fight to save the environment in Uganda and vowed to take the same fight to cabinet.
“I have been passionate about environment, probably that is why the President has deliberately thought that whatever I was agitating about and make it work. My speaking out on environment I will continue, I didn’t go to close my mouth, the government needs someone to give it advice,” Anywar said, adding: “As I leader, I should be able to see the future better than the people I lead, I am not static.”
