By Emma Mutaizibwa & Gerald Walulya
Aug 24, 2004
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PARLIAMENT- MPs yesterday asked the Minister of Education, Dr Khiddu Makubuya, to clear the air over State Minister for Health, Mr Mike Mukula’s Masters Degree he obtained at Nkumba University. “How could Capt. Francis Babu who flies big planes be denied entry at Makerere University and Mukula who flies small planes, be admitted for a Masters degree? The ministry should quickly produce a report on Mukula,” Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi said. Deputy Speaker, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, chaired the plenary, where the matter was resurrected after a spell of silence. Mukula’s academic credentials came under the spotlight after he graduated this year with a Masters degree in Business Administration. Several MPs have cast doubt over Mukula’s degree. The matter arose after a report was presented by the Social Services Committee on the budgets for several ministries, by Tororo Woman MP Dorothy Hyuha. Samia Bugwe North MP, Aggrey Awori, had asked the Ministry of Education to institute a body that should vet the prerequisite qualifications for tertiary institutions. “We don’t want dilution of academic standards because people can pay,” Awori said. He also hinted that there is a minister in the House whose recent degree could be ‘hot air’. Awori turned his guns to the Butabika saga that in the past caused uproar in the House. He compelled the minister of Health, Brig. Jim Muhwezi, to produce a report on the matter. The saga was sparked off about three months ago after the Minister of Lands, Col. Kahinda Otafiire, said he would sell off the Butabika land that belongs to the ministry of Health, to investors. |
© 2004 The Monitor Publications
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