Lawmakers have tabled a key motion in the House demanding that the two ministers overseeing the Karamoja docket resign with immediate effect, so as to allow proper investigations into the allegations of mismanagement of relief items meant for vulnerable people in the sub-region.

While tabling a motion for a resolution of Parliament to inquire into the alleged mismanagement of relief items under the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday, Remigio Achia, the chairperson of Karamoja Parliamentary Group resolved that the ministers Mary Goretti Kitutu and Agnes Nandutu resign with immediate effect.

Among the items the ministers are accused of mismanaging are goats, iron sheets and maize which Achia says amount to abuse of office, misconduct, misbehaviour, corruption, diversion of public resources and breach of the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Minister.   

Napak district woman MP Faith Nakut, the seconder of the motion, says the matter tests legislators’ willingness to fight corruption and how far they can go as Parliament in exercising their job of oversight on the excesses of government.

Discussion was not allowed on the motion as the Presidential Affairs Committee is already conducting a probe on the matter.

Kitutu last Friday made an apology before the committee stating that inconveniences and embarrassments caused is highly regretted.