Third Deputy Prime Minister Kirunda Kivejinja of Uganda
This was after Ms Alice Alaso (FDC, Woman Soroti) raised a point of order on why Mr Kivejinja was in the House.
Ugandan Minister for Presidency Kirunda Kivejinja discussed bilateral issues with visiting Zanzibar Minister of State Adam Mwakanjuki on Monday.
The police is purely intended to prevent clashes, Kivejinja said flanked by the Minister of State for Internal Affairs Matia Kasaija, Minister of State for Lands Kasirivu Atwooki and the co-coordinator of intelligence services Gen.
Kivejinja said three million Pound sterling was spent on renovating the State House in 1993.
Kivejinja said the Okello House is hired at $23,500 monthly for 15 years, running till 2011.
Kirunda-Kivejinja was Museveni's right hand man and campaigned to become a Member of Parliament for Bugweri in 1980 under the NRM tickect but was not accorded, the Clan support this embittered him very much.
Mr Kivejinja was one of the few brave Ugandans who championed media freedoms and the citizens right to access information when he together with two other former cabinet ministers, Mr Bidandi Ssali and Mr Kintu Musoke, started the Weekly Topic, a weekly English newspaper that challenged dictatorship in the early 80s.
The paper provided critical analysis of the affairs of the state and offered the last frontier of hope to millions of Ugandans at a time when everything else seemed to have gone to the dogs!Mr Kivejinja knows too well that an independent free media is crucial for the survival of our young democracy.
Addressing a press conference at the Media Centre in Kampala yesterday, information minister Kirunda Kivejinja said arrangements had been put in place for the detained to access their lawyers.
Kivejinja said the rebel leader is a creation of opponents of President Museveni’s regime.
Kivejinja said President Museveni had to satisfy the demands by the international community for peace negotiations with the rebels to bring about peace in northern Uganda.
Kirunda Kivejinja said getting children into marriage would enable the Government to fight the HIV/AIDS.
Kivejinja was speaking at the wedding of David Kanyeihe and Monica Karungi in Fort Portal.
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Kivejinja said the government would remove the international arrest warrants against top commanders of the rebels if the rebel leader signs the final peace deal according to the tenets of the April 2008 agreement.
Kivejinja was appearing before the committee chaired by Buikwe North MP Onyango Kakooba to account for the funds his ministry received in preparation for the summit.
Ultimate MediaThe 3rd Deputy prime Minister and Minister of Information and National Guidance, Kirunda Kivejinja has advised the non-Banyoro in Kibaale district to be loyal to the indigenous people if peace is there is to be peace in the Bunyoro region.
Kivejinja says that Government will not tolerate such conflicts and yet the Land Act that was amended by Parliament articulates that any body who lives on a chunk of land for more than 12 years becomes a resident of that area of its jurisdiction.
Press reports show that the former Bugweri MP, Kirunda Kivejinja has threatened court action against FDC over electoral malpractices.