The
official website of the Ugandan Embassy in Brussels hasn’t been updated for
several years. The website still presents the late, Maria Mutagamba as the
Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities Minister despite her passing two years ago.
The information appears on the official portal of the Ugandan
Embassy in Brussels, Belgium https://brussels.mofa.go.ug/data-smenu-47-The-Cabinet-of-Uganda.html.
Some of the important information on the website related to various ministries
dates back to as far back as 2015.
For instance, the first lady and Education and Sports Minister, Janet Kataaha
Museveni still appears as Karamoja Affairs Minister, Prof Sandy Stevens
Tickodri Togboa, who served for 15 months as Higher Education and Technology
State Minister also still appears on the website as holding the same
docket.
John Chrysostom Muyingo, the incumbent Higher Education State Minister
according to the embassy website is the state minister for Primary Education.
Fred Ruhindi, who is currently serving on the Justice Catherine
Bamugemereire Land Commission, also appears as the country’s Attorney General.
A Uganda who raised alarm on the information on the website through social
media couldn’t hide his frustration with the state of affairs. “It’s a
shame that a Ugandan embassy cares less about having facts on its
webpages,” he said.
Adding that; “Check out the Brussels page, [you] will be shocked to see
Alupo, Nasasira’s names as members of the cabinet.” The duo was long
dropped from cabinet.
The website presents Katikamu North MP Abraham Byandala as Minister without
Portfolio (in-charge of Political Mobilization) instead of Hajji Abdul Nadduli
while Crispus Kiyonga, the current Uganda’s Ambassador to China, is still the
Defense Minister on the embassy website.
Jim Muhwezi is still in charge of the ICT and National Guidance Ministry while
the current office bearer Frank Tumwebaze appears as the Presidency Minister, a
position currently occupied by Esther Mbulakubuza Mbayo.
Our reporter was unable to get an official comment from the embassy about the
website. This isn’t the first time an official government website presented
outdated information.
About two years ago, the official statehouse website presented outdated
information about the office of the president and was only updated by the
prompting from our reporter.
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