Agaba Ronald Bills – Kazo Voter
I have read animated commentaries about President Museveni’s outgoing topmost secretary Ms. Molly Kamukama with interest. In what seems to be a coordinated narrative, one commentator after the other, are throwing insinuation volleys of corruption, a low hanging allegation that attracts public hate, but a hard one to sustain when proof is required.
What this narrative doesn’t tell us is that Ms. Molly Kamukama in now a cabinet minister in charge of Economic Monitoring. Before we explain how influential this docket is, in the wake of Uganda’s development agenda, one needs to point out, and loudly so, that in this reshuffle, she’s the only none Member of Parliament to be appointed minister.
So what makes Ms. Kamukama tick to have caught the eye of the president? A little background shows that she neither comes from a famous political family nor did she attend A league schools in Uganda. Hers, is an intriguing story of a humble girl rising from obscurity to the pinnacle of Ugandan politics.
There are no prizes for guessing that Molly Kamukama fits into the bill President Museveni’s preference of women leaders like Allen Kagina of UNRA, Gen. Nalweyiso, Amelia Kyambadde and a few others that share things in common as; smart and confident, intelligent and cunning, result-oriented and tough, strict managers with such attributes no wonder some commenters find her to much.
Molly Kamukama joins president Museveni’s cabinet of few respected leaders who have no constituencies like Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, the prime minister.
In the long list of President Museveni’s Principal Private Secretaries, Molly joins only Amelia Kyambadde on elevation to cabinet.
Being a minister of Economic Monitoring offers her a leg-room to directly engage in politics where a record of her role in the “Steady Progress” 2016 campaign that saw Museveni re-elected left trails of a shrewd political mobiliser.
It’s hard to tell what type of deep state Kamukama has, but the fact that she’s born and married in the newly created district of Kazo, and having worked closely with President Museveni, who even his severest critics admire his ability to exploit circumstances, she, just like her boss could throw her superior political curriculum vitae as a directly elected member of parliament for Kazo Constituency or Kazo district woman MP come 2021.
With a constituency in her bag, who knows the next stage for this new leader whose arrival on the national horizon of politics is just in the morning hours?
