By Angel Lubowa
Kampala
The Abavandimwe community in Uganda are still in total jubilations for the recent appointment of their own Hon Juma Witonze as a state minister for Internal Affairs docket.
In a press statement issued by Frank M. Gashumba,the chairman Council for Abavandimwe, he said Witonze's deployment in the very Ministry where the Abavandimwe were being discriminated against is a great achievement to having overcome all the sour past.
" We cant fail to thank you Mr President, Yoweri Museveni for appointing Hon Juma Witonze to the docket of State minister for Internal Affairs the very government Ministry where our people were being discriminated against. You demonstrated true Pan Africanism,leadership,
love and commitment to inclusion " Gashumba's statement in The New Vision reads in part.
Museveni appointed Hon Witonze, a member of the Bavandimwe leadership to replace Dr Lawrence Muganga whose appointment to the same docket was blocked by the parliamentary appointments committee .
Dr Muganga the vice Chancellor of Victoria university, Kampala is both a member and a leader with the Abavandimwe ranks and his blockage paused a risk of the group to miss a ministerial slot but with the appointment of Witonze, the Bavandinwe now rest assured.
