{"id":43165,"date":"2026-06-02T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=43165"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:33:38","slug":"uganda-parliament-throws-out-muganga-appointment-as-minister-as-he-denies-rwanda-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-parliament-throws-out-muganga-appointment-as-minister-as-he-denies-rwanda-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Parliament throws out Muganga appointment as minister as he denies Rwanda citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The committee cited the Citizenship and Immigration Act which bars holders of dual citizenship from holding offices listed in the Fifth Schedule which includes the presidency, prime minister, cabinet and ministers of state.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliamentary Appointments Committee has rejected the appointment of Lawrence Muganga as State minister of internal affairs citing Uganda&#8217;s citizenship laws.<\/p>\n<p>Muganga was among the designated ministers vetted before Parliament May 2 following President Yoweri Museveni&#8217;s appointments of the cabinet for the 2026-2031 term.<\/p>\n<p>According to reliable reports, the committee cited the Citizenship and Immigration Act which bars holders of dual citizenship from holding offices listed in the Fifth Schedule which includes the presidency, prime minister, cabinet and ministers of state.<\/p>\n<p>Muganga holds Canadian citizenship and is rumoured to be a Rwandan and also holder of the Uganda passport which he acquired in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulse.ug\/story\/parliament-throws-out-muganga-appointment-as-minister-as-he-denies-rwanda-citizenship-2026060216131966321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pulse.ug\/story\/parliament-throws-out-muganga-appointment-as-minister-as-he-denies-rwanda-citizenship-2026060216131966321<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The committee cited the Citizenship and Immigration Act which bars holders of dual citizenship from holding offices listed in the Fifth Schedule which includes the presidency, prime minister, cabinet and ministers of state. The Parliamentary Appointments Committee has rejected the appointment of Lawrence Muganga as State minister of internal affairs citing Uganda&#8217;s citizenship laws. Muganga [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43169,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43165\/revisions\/43169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}