Time will tell if Her Excellency the Vice President Hon. Jessica Rose Epel Alupo, a retired Major of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, shall have a visible, clear and substantive role in the actual day to day running of our nation.
Will she remain hidden behind scenes and serve out her term of office, simply taking orders from the Commander in Chief.
Likewise, will the Right Hon. Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja substantively function in accordance with the constitutional powers of her role?
Will her two female deputy prime ministers – Hon. Rebecca Kadaga and Hon. Lukia Nakadama, adjust into their roles and from whence they will truly command a united and qualitatively strong women’s voice in cabinet?
For now, it can be factually said that the president has surrounded himself with a top echelon of his cabinet that is 80 percent women. A mind-blowing shift from zero women in the top echelon. No wonder, it is generating a lot of chatter.
Celebrations erupted, among women especially, claiming ‘the women’s voice’ and representation at the top echelon of cabinet strengthened. Pointing out how it now mirrors Uganda’s population, of which the majority is female.
In equal measure, however, critics pointing out that the seeming strengthening of ‘the women’s voice’ at the top echelon is artificial. Among the more fierce, critiques coming from the Lord Mayor of the Capital City, who posted on X:
“You cannot choose Hon. Robinah Nabbanja to lead Government business. That is rewarding mediocrity. How does Rebecca Kadaga be answerable to Nabbanja?” Erias Lukwago
Cabinet 2016-2021
In the previous cabinet that President Museveni reshuffled in December 2019, the top four cabinet positions, at the time (without the newly created Third Deputy Prime Minister), were all filled by men.
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